OSU Portfolio | Faculty and Staff Resources

About the OSU Portfolio

The OSU Portfolio is a tool to track, manage and make meaning of students' development of the Ideal Graduate competencies. This tool allows students to showcase their competency development through meaningful reflection. The use of the portfolio will indicate a student’s successful engagement with activities and will support students in effectively articulating the value of their experiences. Further, the OSU Portfolio can be used in internship and job searches to showcase evidence of students’ skills and abilities to potential employers.

Explore an example Portfolio

How faculty and staff can use it

Faculty can seamlessly integrate the OSU Portfolio into their courses by framing coursework around the Ideal Graduate competencies. By including portfolio-building activities, assignments, and reflections that align with course objectives, faculty can enrich the portfolio with tangible evidence of academic progress. This approach helps students articulate their growth in alignment with their career aspirations.

Faculty and staff can utilize resources and tools such as the competency matrix, meaningful reflection activities and tailored prompts listed below to guide students in their development of the Ideal Graduate competencies.

Reflection Prompts

Use these prompts to guide assignments for your students to reflect on experiences related to each Ideal Graduate competency.

Reflection Prompts

Meaningful Reflection Guide

Meaningful reflection plays a crucial role in a college student’s personal, professional and academic growth. Reflection allows students to explore their values, passions and skills while gaining clarity about their career interests and aspirations.

Meaningful Reflection Guide

Learning Outcomes Matrix

The Ideal Graduate Learning Outcomes Matrix is a framework based on Bloom's Taxonomy that was developed to define and measure the desired competencies in graduates. This matrix is used to align the curriculum and co-curricular activities with the intended learning outcomes at each level of Bloom's Taxonomy.

Learning Outcomes Matrix

Ideal Graduate Resource Toolkit

This comprehensive toolkit equips you with the essential resources and strategies to effectively communicate Oklahoma State University’s Ideal Graduate initiative to a variety of audiences. The Ideal Graduate framework emphasizes the development of key competencies that are crucial for success in academic, professional and personal settings.

Ideal Graduate Resource Toolkit