The left hand side menu of this page shows you each step you must take to utilize portfolios in your Blackboard courses here at ASU. 

Just a brief note about a template portfolio-

When you create a course in Digication, you can offer students a template portfolio to standardize the organization of their portfolios in the course. After you have enabled Digication in your courses (the first three links on the left hand side menu), you will create a portfolio template for your course. The process begins by creating a portfolio in a standard format and then designing the portfolio to meet your course expectations. Once you have made the final modifcations to the template you can set it up in your course so students can copy this portfolio and all of the students will follow that format. To be clear a template portfolio is any portfolio the instructor pre-populates and then associates with a course. Please refer to these directions to create a portfolio.