For a general overview of PebblePad please visit the PebblePad page on the Centre for Educational Transformation website. For further learning, please see the synchronous and asynchronous professional development opportunities below.
If you or your department are wanting additional professional development opportunities that are not listed below, please contact the Centre for Educational Transformation for a consult with either an Educational Consultant of a Learning Technology Strategist.
Synchronous Opportunities
Community of Practice – ePortfolio Matters @KPU returns Fall 2025
Facilitator: Gillian Sudlow
Description:
Are you an eportfolio champion willing to share your expertise? Or are you curious about eportfolios, and how you might implement them in your course, program, or professional life? Do you have ideas, big or small, about how eportfolios might align with your course or program outcomes? Are you wary of the technical competencies required for yourself or your students? Do you want to learn more about eportfolio pedagogy and platforms? This Community of Practice is for you!
Join other educators (eportfolio experts and muddlers) to share ideas and resources, work through challenges, build skills, and connect with PebblePad specialists. This will be a flexible Community of Practice that will support you regardless of where you are in your eportfolio learning – all are welcome!
Fall 2025 Meeting Dates:
Session 1: September 17th from 9:30-10:30
Session 2: October 15th from 9:30 to 10:30
Session 3: November 19th from 9:30 to 10:30
Session 4: December 17th from 9:30 to 10:30
The schedule is scaffolded to allow participants to: build foundational knowledge of eportfolio pedagogy and the PebblePad platform, connect with other practitioners at various levels of engagement; connect with implementation specialists from PebblePad, workshop ideas, and reflect on challenges and successes. A proposed schedule appears below:
Each session will include a check-in/introduction (5-15 minutes), approximately 30 minutes of content offered by the facilitator/s and/or guest, and approximately 45 minutes for workshopping, small group discussion, and reflection related to the week’s topic. The workshopping and discussion portion of the session will be largely participant-driven.
Contact: Gillian Sudlow (gillian.sudlow@kpu.ca) for an invite!
Intro to ePortfolios
Facilitator: Gillian Sudlow
Workshop Description:
Curious and want to know more about ePortfolios? Here is your chance! Over the course of 3, 75 minute synchronous sessions you will learn the basics of ePortfolios, including the pedagogy and the tools that support their use for teaching and learning. We will cover the basics of what ePorfolios are and their uses for teaching and learning as well as introduce some suggestions and strategies for implementation and provide information regarding resources and additional support.
Spring 2026 – Dates TBA
Assessing e-Portfolio Learning with Pebble Pad & ATLAS
Facilitator: Gillian Sudlow
Workshop Description
Are you familiar with PebblePad, Pebble+, and ready to take on the administrative application Atlas? If you are ready to learn how to share resources directly to your students’ dashboards, use feedback tools to give formative and summative feedback to assess your students’ learning journeys, then this workshop is for you.
This online, synchronous course will introduce KPU instructors to the ATLAS side of PebblePad and how it integrates with KPUs LMS, Moodle. ATLAS is the assessment, teaching and learning component of pebblepad and can be applied in formative and summative assessments while also allowing KPU instructors to support students with self-reflection, peer review, and guidance using various pre-built and custom templates, rubrics, and grades. ATLAS also allows external assessors to comment and provide feedback on student work, opening a world of new possibilities!
“ATLAS is designed specifically to support rich, iterative and conversational styles of assessment and feedback.” – [PebblePad Help, 2021]
What are you waiting for? Grab onto ATLAS and start exploring what the complete world of PebblePad can do to support your course design.
Spring 2026 Dates TBA
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Asynchronous Opportunities
Click on the links to enjoy learning about the pedagogy and technology of ePortfolios at your own pace – anytime, anywhere.
Rollin Stones: *stay tuned … asynchronous workshop is currently being redesigned
Understanding Atlas: *stay tuned … asynchronous workshop is currently being redesigned …
ePortfolios explained video:
https://media.kpu.ca/media/ePortfolios+Explained+Webinar/0_hfyf1j3m