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Portfolios and Dropbox
Final Portfolio Submission in MS Word
- Please submit your final portfolio in MS Word (and NOT as a .pdf)
- On Dropbox by noontime on the day before our last class
Assembling your final portfolio
- In each homework, set that week’s date in Heading 1 and the sub-heads, identical to the weekly homework sub-heads, in Heading 2, so that your Table of Contents will be consistent
- Create a new file and “save as” “FirstName LastName, Final Portfolio, date”
- Copy each week’s work, in order, and paste into the new file
- Be sure that the assignment date is in Heading 1 and that the assigned topics for that week are in Heading 2
- Repeat this for each week until you are done
- To insure consistent styles, replace the styles by importing a known good style set importing styles from one document to another document in Word
- Insert a Table of Contents (TOC) at the top of your portfolio by following The Wicked Easy Way to Create a Table of Contents in Word and where you select the show levels drop down menu to show only Heading 1 and Heading 2 so that the TOC arranges your assignments in chronological order and lists the assigned topics for that week
Dropbox
- On Dropbox, we share our work, but the thing you’ve got to watch out for is that when you install Dropbox Desktop on your PC, you are setting up a shared file system that may look like it is your own folder, but it is not: it is shared, so anything you do to it will be done for all: if you move or delete a file, it will disappear for everyone else, too.
- For your security, be sure to copy files to your hard drive and do not drag them: if you drag files into or out of Dropbox you risk losing your originals: keep your originals and their copy in Dropbox separate
- Daily Backups. If you do not make daily backups onto an external hard drive, you risk losing your originals: establish a daily backup routine