📂 How to Build Your Portfolio

Your portfolio is where you collect evidence that shows how you are developing and applying your skills at work.

📌 What you’ll learn

What your portfolio is for, what good evidence looks like, how to use the Portfolio section in Student Dashboard, and how to keep your evidence EPA ready.

🧠 What is your portfolio?

Your portfolio is a collection of evidence from your apprenticeship. It helps show how you have developed your knowledge, skills, and behaviours.

It should tell the story of your progress, not just store random documents.

🧭 Where do you build your portfolio?

You can build and manage your portfolio in the Portfolio section of the Student Dashboard.

This is where you can upload evidence, map it to your apprenticeship KSBs, add notes, and organise your work ready for review or End-Point Assessment.

When needed, you can also download your portfolio as a ZIP file, with a built-in contents page to help make your evidence easier to review.

➕ Adding course work to your portfolio

You can also add work to your portfolio from your course submissions.

Go to Submissions in the Student Dashboard, find the piece of work you want to use, and choose the option to add it to your portfolio.

This is useful when a submitted answer, assignment, or piece of evidence shows strong progress against your apprenticeship criteria.

✅ What good evidence looks like

• Real examples from your workplace
• Documents, reports, plans, emails, meeting notes, or project work
• Evidence that clearly links to your apprenticeship criteria
• A short explanation of what you did and why it matters
• Evidence that shows your own contribution

🛠 How to build it

⚠️ Common mistake: Uploading evidence without explaining what it shows. The assessor needs to understand your contribution, not just see a file.

💡 Top tip: A strong portfolio is built little and often. Use the Portfolio section throughout your apprenticeship, not just at the end.