As a professional or personal learning planner and portfolio, the NICI PLP is a collaboration tool that allows a group of advisors to help individual learners meet their goals for learning and build an e-portfolio that demonstrates achievement. You can also use the PLP to guide teams of learners toward a shared vision of outcomes and results.

The PLP includes tools for creating:

• Surveys and reporting instruments, for recording and documenting both the self-assessment of the learner and the observations of advisors.
   
• Rubrics for providing structured feedback to learners.
   
• Standards for linking goals and artifacts of work and the validation of those works to high expectations, and
   
• Group and individual profiles and portfolios to document and display progress over time, best pieces, and the achievement of high standards.