You are about halfway through Year 2. By now you should have three ALTs moving toward banked: your personal statement, your career progression plan, and your collaborative reflection. If one is still a draft or missing, still build the index: mark status honestly and name the gap. Your teacher will help you plan recovery after class.

A folder full of files is not the same as a portfolio you can use. Today you are reflecting by building something the portfolio does not yet have: a real index. Your Portfolio Health Check is that living index page. Gaps that are invisible inside folders become obvious on one page. That page stays with you and gets updated every time something new is banked.

Three terms you will use while you build your Portfolio Health Check (the living index page for your Digital Portfolio):

First the class builds the shape of the index together: what every row must say so that somebody who is not you could still find the work. Agree the wording under each heading. Starter chips are class demos of complete sample rows only. Do not copy those example rows into your own document. Reword anything that is vague.

The list-builder only agrees the row shape with the class. Your assessed artefact is the Portfolio Health Check document you create in Strand 2.1 from your own folders: copy the headings, not the class example rows.

Then open your Digital Portfolio and create a document called Portfolio Health Check in your Strand 2.1 folder. Copy the agreed shape, not the class examples.

Build a full index covering:

• ALT 1 Personal Statement: final version (V3 or the latest final you have filed) plus the supporting pieces you actually produced (drafts, feedback, research, process documents). Typical pieces might include earlier drafts, a voice revision, or a tailored variant. List what exists. If a piece the ALT needs is absent, name it under gap. Do not invent files.
• ALT 2 Career Progression Plan: final plan plus the supporting pieces you actually produced (source material, alignment note, peer-review record, or other process documents). List what exists; name absences under gap.
• ALT 3 Collaborative Reflection: final reflection plus the supporting pieces you actually produced from the collaborative task (problem definition, ideation, solution, implementation plan, process reflection, presentation work, or framework notes). List what exists; name absences under gap.

For every piece, write the document name, the folder it lives in, and the status: finished, draft, or missing. Write the folder you actually used. Where something is missing or thin, name the gap in plain language.

An ALT where the task produced more pieces than you can point to should look wrong on the page. That is the point. This Portfolio Health Check stays in the portfolio and is updated each time something new is banked.

Talk these through with the person beside you, then decide whether one more gap needs naming on your Portfolio Health Check before you leave.

• Which gap on your index would have stayed invisible if you had only scrolled through folders?
• If the SEC Portfolio in Action brief arrived tomorrow, which of your three ALTs could you defend with evidence in under five minutes, and which one would slow you down?

If a gap matters, add it to your Portfolio Health Check now. Optional portfolio note later: one short paragraph to future-you on the thinnest ALT and the first document you will fix.

In this lesson you:

• Agreed the shape of a portfolio index that names each artefact, where it lives, its status, and any gap
• Built your own Portfolio Health Check (your living index page) covering ALT 1, ALT 2 and ALT 3 with supporting evidence
• Surfaced gaps that folders hide and recorded them in plain language
• Left with a living index page to update each time something new is banked

Optional stretch: add a fourth block for non-ALT strand evidence you may need later (values work, skills audits, community investigations) so the Portfolio Health Check covers more than the three finals.