A hyperlink is a connection from some point in a computer file, Web site, or e-mail program to some point in another computer file, Web site, or e-mail program. For example, Internet4Classrooms is a hyperlink; clicking Internet4Classrooms connects you to the Internet4Classrooms Web site. In e-portfolios, hyperlinks are used to link files -- text, audio, video, and so on -- to one another.

Check out the Education World techtorial Hyperlinks Put Learning into Hyperdrive to review the steps for creating hyperlinks, then return to this techtorial to learn how to use hyperlinks to create student portfolios

Provide students with the following instructions for hyperlinking the files in their e-portfolios:

• On the Table of Contents page, highlight the words "About this Portfolio."
• Click Insert and choose Hyperlink.
• Click "Document" or "File," and then click Select or Browse to find your "About This Portfolio" page. Click OK.
• Click OK. The words "About This Portfolio" now should be blue and underlined, indicating a hyperlink.
• On the Table of Contents page, highlight the name of the piece of work you want to save in your portfolio and repeat the steps above to create a hyperlink to your work.

Note: Whenever you hyperlink pages to a main page, it's a good idea to create links from those pages back to the main page as well. So, type "Click Here to Go to the Table of Contents Page" at the bottom of the "About This Portfolio" page and on your work sample and follow the steps above to hyperlink those files back to the Table of Contents page.

Next: Adding to a portfolio.