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However, this is not necessarily the case in MyPortfolio, which is designed with the following features that can allow students to continue working on their personal portfolios after a deadline and prevent staff from seeing students' work. Namely:

1. When The only personal items that can be seen by anyone other than the creator/owner, are Pages and Collections (of Pages). But a Page or a Collection can only be seen by others if the creator or owner shares it with them in one or more of the ways that MyPortfolio facilitates.
   
2. However, when a user simply shares their Page or Collection (of Pages) with another user or Group the Page/Collection author/owner can continue to edit it.
3. Those with whom a Page or Collection is shared cannot edit them although they may be allowed to comment on them and/or on individual component parts or blocks.
4. Pages or Collections shared with a Group can be seen by all the Group members.

In order for MyPortfolio to function more like a Moodle or Turnitin assignment inbox for the submission of personal portfolios, then it has to be used as follows:

1. Students need to be made members of a Group.
2. When a user is a member of a Group and the Group is configured to allow submissions, then the user can be asked to submit their Page or Collection to this Group until the deadline that has been setGroup. Submissions are time stamped and submission deadlines can be set.
3. If group members (i.e. students) fail to either submit their personal portfolios to their Group, or share them with staff, then staff will be unable to see the Pages or Collections that they created in MyPortfolio for this assignment.
   
4. When a user submits their Page or Collection to a Group (as opposed to sharing it with the Group) then s/he is unable to edit it further.
5. Pages or Collections submitted to a Group, can only be seen by the Group Admins (not all members of the Group).
   
6. If an Admin on a Group opts to Release a Page or Collection that was submitted to the Group, then the author/owner of the Page or Collection will be able to edit it once again.

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1. When an Entry is made to a Journal in MyPortfolio it is time stamped when it is first saved. 
2. When an existing Journal Entry is edited the date and time remains unchanged (i.e. its creation date persists).
3. Any Journal entry that is displayed on a Page/Collection that has been submitted to a Group cannot be edited until the Page/Collection is Released by an Admin on the Group.

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This information should clarify the difference between managing assessments in MyPortfolio vs Moodle and guide you on how to instruct your students to use MyPortfolio.

When students use MyPortfolio to create independent work of which they are the sole author

whereas Moodle is designed as a broadly tutor-led and controlled learning environment, MyPortfolio provides a more equalitarian environment wherein both students and tutors are 'members' of the MyPortfolio community and have complete control of their own content and creations. Hence, tutors cannot access students work unless students