The Utah State legislature has moved the due date for assessments and portfolios to May 31st, 2025. Failing to deliver either a record via portfolio, OR a record of assessment will render your scholarship student ineligible for participation in the UFA Scholarship Program for the upcoming school year.
Requirements:
Utah Fits All scholarship recipient portfolios are required to describe “the scholarship student’s educational opportunities and achievements under the program.” To meet this requirement, the portfolio must include:
- Reference to a purchase made with UFA funds
- A description of how the purchase supported the student’s educational opportunities and achievements.
- Evidence of how the purchase was used (see examples below)
For example:
Example #1
Purchase: Counting Bears
Description: We used our scholarship funds to purchase the counting bears math manipulative set. Ella used the counting bears to practice addition, subtraction, and pattern recognition. We guided her through activities like grouping bears by color, adding totals, and creating patterns.
Evidence: A drawing Ella made of the bears in a pattern.
Example #2
Purchase: Private School tuition
Explanation: We used UFA funds for our son, Adam, to attend a private school. While there, he presented to his class about the solar system.
Evidence: A picture of Adam giving his presentation.
What is Unrulr?
To ensure continued scholarship eligibility, Utah law requires you supply student progress for each scholarship student’s achievements throughout the school year. ACE Scholarships is offering two convenient options for you to choose from in order to fulfill this requirement: (1) Unrulr and (2) a learning assessment. Unrulr is a FREE digital portfolio tool that allows you and your scholarship student to create a compelling record of their learning journey throughout the year. With Unrulr, you can include report cards, projects, assignments, or student reflections, providing a rich picture of their progress.
How does Unrulr work?
Student portfolios are a digital collection of multimedia (photos, videos, audio recordings, and PDFs) and written reflections. You get to choose how to tell your own story of learning.
- Easy Access: Log into Unrulr using your UFA Single Sign-On account for a hassle-free start.
- One-Time Post Requirement: Simply add at least one learning update to Unrulr before the scholarship period ends June 30, 2025. That’s all it takes to meet your requirement!
- Privacy: Unrulr portfolios are a private space, accessible only to the student, their parent, and UFA Program Manager, ACE Scholarships.
This portfolio option offers a simple, flexible way to showcase your learning. With this powerful tool at your fingertips, you get to choose how you want to use it— whether that means making one post or connecting many experiences into a story of learning!
IMPORTANT: The deadline to complete your scholarship student’s academic assessment and deliver it to ACE Scholarships is June 30, 2025.
Frequently Asked Questions
ACE Scholarships offers two convenient options for you to choose from in order to fulfill this requirement:
Unrulr – FREE Digital Portfolio: We provide complimentary access to Unrulr, a user-friendly platform where you and your child can create a compelling portfolio showcasing their learning journey. Unrulr allows you to include report cards, projects, assignments, and student reflections, providing a rich picture of their progress.
Learning Assessment: A learning assessment may be facilitated by your student’s school, or you may request that the program manager facilitate one of the following assessments to your scholarship student:
- A standards assessment
- A high school assessment
- A college readiness assessment
- An assessment of students in grade 3 to measure reading grade level
- A nationally norm referenced assessment (Ex: ITBS, ITED, NWEA, ACT, SAT).
Here’s what you need to do:
- Login to your Utah Fits All Scholarship account.
- You will now see a button to make a selection for your student(s).
- Click the button to “Set up now.”
- Select your preferred method for documenting your student’s educational opportunities and achievements for each awarded scholarship student.
- If you selected the portfolio, please follow the instructions to set-up your account. You will receive a subsequent email detailing the instructions for setting up your account.
Please note: You may change your selection anytime during the school year by using the ACE Access portal. The deadline to complete your scholarship student’s academic assessment and deliver it to ACE Scholarships is June 30, 2025. Failing to deliver either a record via portfolio, OR a record of assessment will render your student ineligible for participation in the UFA Scholarship Program.
- Choose portfolio or assessment: You will have the option to choose either Unrulr digital portfolio or to submit an assessment for each student.
- Submit progress: You or your student must submit at least one Unrulr portfolio entry of achievement progress for the year. For assessments, you must submit documentation for each student before the end of the school year.
A portfolio that meets the Utah Fits All requirements contains:
- Reference to a purchase made with UFA funds.
- A description of how the purchase supported the student’s educational opportunities and achievements.
- Evidence of how the purchase was used.
A learning assessment is an option available to supply student progress for each scholarship student’s achievements throughout the school year. A parent may request that the program manager facilitate one of the following assessments of the parent’s scholarship student: (i) a standards assessment described in Section 53E-4-303; (ii) a high school assessment described in Section 53E-4-304; (iii) a college readiness assessment described in Section 53E-4-305; (iv) an assessment of students in grade 3 to measure reading grade level described in Section 53E-4-307; or (v) a nationally norm-referenced assessment.
Utah law requires the submission of a final product that demonstrates your scholarship student’s educational achievements and opportunities by June 30, 2025 to stay eligible for their scholarship.
Failing to deliver either a record via portfolio, OR a record of assessment will render your scholarship student ineligible for participation in the UFA Scholarship Program for the upcoming school year.
Yes, The deadline to complete your scholarship student’s academic assessment and deliver it to ACE Scholarships is June 30, 2025.
What is a learning assessment and how does it work?
A learning assessment may be facilitated by your student’s school, or you may request that the Program Manager facilitate one of the following assessments of the scholarship student:
- A standards assessment
- A high school assessment
- A college readiness assessment
- An assessment of students in grade 3 to measure reading grade level
- A nationally norm referenced assessment (Ex: ITBS, ITED, NWEA, ACT, SAT).
Important Facts to Know
To ensure continued scholarship eligibility, Utah Fits All law requires the parent of a scholarship student to complete and deliver to ACE Scholarships, UFA program manager, a record that describes each scholarship student’s educational opportunities and achievements throughout the school year.
The program manager may not disclose the content of a given scholarship student’s portfolio except to the scholarship student’s parent.
You may change your selection at anytime during the 2024-2025 school year by using the ACE Access portal. The deadline to complete your scholarship student’s academic assessment and deliver it to ACE Scholarships is June 30, 2025. Failing to deliver either a record via portfolio, OR a record of assessment will render your scholarship student ineligible for participation in the UFA Scholarship Program for the upcoming school year.
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