Professional Development Portfolio Assessment Brief 2025 | London Metropolitan University

The Assessment

Recorded assessment brief:

Assessment Tasks

Firstly, you must update your portfolio each week throughout the semester. Your portfolio template is provided on slide 5. 
  
Based on your portfolio 1500 (+/-10%) words of reflection OR create Powepoint presentation with video/voice over on Panopto (10 minutes) on, how this module learning helped you throughout the semester (week 1 to week 12) in your, 

Professional Development – Please draw insights on how learning from this module has developed your professional capabilities from week 1 to week 12 throughout the semester. How you have used and can use the learning form this module in your professional career. You may want to focus on assessment of skills (week 1), occupational choices (week 3), assessing yourself (week 7), CV writing and interview skills (week 5), negotiation skills (week 10) and coaching skills (week 9).

Personal Development – How this module has helped you in your personal development? You may want to focus on assessment of skills (week 1), self-leadership, emotional and multiple intelligence (week 2).
Academic Development – How this module has helped you in your academic development (week 1, 2 and 4).

Please note, it is mandatory that you use academic literature to support your reflection. Please use minimum 5 academic references. 

Please attach your Portfolio from week 1 to week 11.

Assessment Structure

Cover page that includes module name, module ID, Seminar tutor’s name and Seminar no, your ID and name

• Table of content
• Main body of the assessment:
• Introduction
• Professional Development
• Personal Development
• Academic Development
• Conclusion
• Reference
• Appendices

How to create a Panopto video

You can choose either to submit your assignment as a word document or as a power point presentation with audio/ video narration. If you decide to submit a PowerPoint presentation with audio or video narration, please follow the link below to learn how to create a Panopto video.

General Information

• There is one assignment to complete on this module. This is an individual assessments.
• Each student must only submit using ONLY the Weblearn TurnItin link. Please follow the instructions provided in Weblearn’s “Online Assessment” folder. Your work will NOT be assessed if you failed to submit a copy online before 3pm on 12th May.
  Note: Your submissions must contain the full structure provided, i.e. cover page, table of content, references and appendix. And you must use Harvard referencing.
• You will be marked as fail if you have missed the deadline for online submission.
• Your assignment will be scanned by a plagiarism detecting tool (TurnItin). Your assignment must be a piece of personal and genuine work. 

Assessment criteria

• Comprehension of task and requirements: Looking at how well you cover the assignment task in addressing your professional, personal and academic development. The learning logs are attached.
• Acquisition of knowledge and application: It is visible that the paper is based on the entries in your weekly learning log. Other sources have also been used to support your argument.
• Presentation and Referencing: Looking at the professional presentation by following the structure required, using headings and paragraphs to structure the work, no spelling, grammar and punctuation errors and a clear line of argument. Referencing follows the requirement of Harvard Referencing in text and list.

Specific Instructions

• You are expected to conduct adequate research and provide evidence to support your review, synthesis and discussion.
• Referencing must follow the Harvard Reference System. The university library web site has “A guide to academic referencing” at: