Description of e-Portfolio Programs
June 12, 2008
Foliotek
Foliotek’s reporting power is the result of a wide range of data collection and assessment instruments.
Faculty
• Can store and access their professional development documents online Students
• Assessment, Presentation, and Scrapbook Portfolios Institution
• Streamlines organization and improves visibility of your accreditation efforts. Student Information Systems
Chalk and Wire
Students
• Can build electronic portfolios featuring completed assignments and their reflections, all integrated with an assessment system and linked to standards and rubrics.
Faculty and assessors
• Can evaluate students’ work submitted work and provide valuable feedback
Administrators
• Can create reports for internal strategic goal setting, accreditation reports and research.
Other features
• Archiving Submissions, even after they leave the institution.
• Connect to student management systems to allow for single sign-on and other data exchanges as required
Waypoint
Leading colleges of education, engineering, business, the health sciences, and liberal arts use Waypoint Outcomes to create and publish interactive rubrics and surveys, then easily aggregate and disaggregate the resulting data on student learning.
Waypoint is tightly integrated with Blackboard, Moodle, and Blackboard Vista or used as a stand-alone assessment tool.
Features:
• Direct assessment for data-gathering
• Faculty-designed direct assessment for students • Student self-assessment
• Peer review • Course Surveys
About LinguaFolio
LinguaFolio is designed to assist students with guidance from their instructors in
assessing and describing individual language skills and to facilitate articulation from high school to the university level. The three sections of the portfolio are available to teachers and students for building individual portfolios in notebooks and/or as electronic files. LinguaFolio:
• Facilitates the earning of college credit for language study completed in high school
• Recognizes the needs and motivation of learners and to help them set learning goals
• Develops culturally responsive programs for learner strengths and needs • Obtains information about the language learners previous language learning
experiences
• Evaluates and document performance in a differentiated way
• Connects US standards and performance guidelines to internationally accepted Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
• Describes their language programs and produce evidence of language learning experiences
Desire2Learn
Information within the Desire2Learn ePortfolio can be structured and made consistent across a course, program or organization. Forms and rubrics created by instructors can be shared across the entire organizational structure. This data can be aggregated to
determine the extent of the correlation between the users' grade performance and their real-world experience.
Institutions gain knowledge through data on the users' progress toward learning outcomes and the degree of shared learning and collaboration.
Instructors can aggregate individual efforts at the course, departmental, and institutional level. Robust reporting allows powerful longitudinal and temporal analysis.
Features:
• ePortfolio dashboard provides users with an at-a-glance look inside to see recent comments left by peers, any new material sent by instructors, and invitations to review others' work.
• Powerful search engine retrieves any item quickly. • Assessment and Feedback
• Delivers robust assessment capabilities through integration with Desire2Learn's industry-leading Competencies and Learning Outcome tools
• Evaluators can review all comments and assessments made by peers • Efficient and Flexible Administration
• Administrators can customize the roles, permissions and organization structure to suit their needs.
• Flexibility allows a variety of applications including Professional Development, Job Seeking, Assessment, and Accreditation.
• Reporting
• As a user, you can view logs of anyone who accessed your ePortfolio and any changes made to ePortfolio items.
• For the institution, a wealth of rich information from the ePortfolio is available in the Data Warehouse and reporting tools.
• Institutions gain access to rubrics assessments and frequencies • Import/Export
ePortaro
Enables portfolio owners to demonstrate their skills, competencies, personality and mastery to third parties, over the internet;
Organizes diverse vocational and educational experiences;
Supports work with counselors, advisors, and mentors fully supports multiple languages in a single installation.
For Students:
• Create a collection of items that reflect your academic, personal and professional objectives and achievements
• Create customized portfolios and selectively share them over the world wide web • Support your job search by collecting and sharing your academic history, work
experience, and professional references with recruiters and employers
• Collaborate with other students, your professors, and your advisors on shared papers, projects, and other artifacts
For Faculty Members:
• Track a student's academic objectives, history, assignments and projects to support your advising role
• Provide secure evaluations and feedback on items that have been shared with you by students or other faculty
• Organize your own academic achievements, research materials and artifacts, and selectively share them with your colleagues off-campus and on-campus
For University Leaders:
• Gain visibility for your organization as an early adopter for an emerging trend in student and faculty service
• Introduce a creative use of technology to impact the learning process • Improve the career placement process and results
Data180
Data180 offers an integrated suite of Web-based applications developed specifically for academia, each is highly customizable and scalable.
Data180 is most likely ancillary (i.e. you need a suite of programs) Benefits to schools:
• Documents public engagement by faculty • Provides a faculty activity reporting system
• Creates standardized reporting for annual faculty review, tenure/promotion, etc. • Provides accreditation and other external reporting
• Provides decision support to manage faculty resources • Documents public engagement by students
• Provides co-curricular transcripts • Provides alumni tracking
• Documents assessment of learning
• Documents student perceptions of their academic experience Benefits to students:
• Helps assure faculty members are qualified • Creates e-resumes and e-portfolios
• Provides a job search management tool • Provides co-curricular transcripts
• Creates assessed artifacts for e-resume portfolio • Helps assure quality curricula and courses
• Improves academic programs and institution services Benefits to faculty:
• Eliminates duplicate data requests • Creates self-evaluation statistics
• Provides ready-built vitae and reports for annual faculty review, tenure/promotion, etc.
• Provides a portal for students to submit artifacts for assessment • Provides process for collecting assessment data
• Creates documentation of assessment and learning • Improves academic programs and institution services
ANGEL
Angel software lets you collect, assess, and achieve data.
Student Tools
Students collect and organize their work from both inside and outside the classroom. From their latest class essay to photos and comments posted during study abroad, ANGEL ePortfolio enables students to integrate classroom, co-curricular, life, and work experiences.
Administrative Tools
ANGEL's signature openness is built into ePortfolio allowing administrators to configure the ANGEL ePortfolio to meet their specific needs. A published database schema gives institutions access to the data they need.
Institutional Assessment
ePortfolio allows institutions to easily create custom objectives and rubrics to ensure all learners meet institutional objectives and accrediting body or state standards.
Performance is measured against defined objectives and standards to assess learning outcomes.
e-Portfolio Comparison Chart
Portfolio@Duke Foliotek Chalk and Wire
WayPoint
Authentic Assessment
LinguaFolio Desire 2 Learn Eportaro Data180 Angel
https://portfolio.oit.d uke.edu/index.jsp http://www.foliotek. com/ http://www.chalkan dwire.com/ http://www.gowayp oint.com/ http://www.doe.virgi nia.gov/linguafolio/ http://www.desire2l earn.com/eportfolio /improvelearning/ http://www.eportaro .com/product.html http://www.data180 .com/index.180 http://www.angellea rning.com/products /eportfolio/
Data stored at University √ √ √ √ √
Connected to WebAuth system or
Blackboard √ √ √ √ √
Organizes and houses variety of file
types √ √ √ √ √
Students have access after they
leave Program/College √* √ √ √
Can import data into the program and combine with portfolio data for reports
√*** √ √ √ √
Automatic report generation √° √ √ √
Document editor to create materials
online √ √ √ √
Easy to create new portfolios
(structurally) √ √ √ √
Rubric capabilities √ √ √ √ √ √ √
Forms/Surveys/Assessment events √ √ √ √ √ √
Hosting options (their server, our
server, both) √ √ √ Both
Communication system (email, bulletin board, collaborative document development, peer
√ √ √ √
Technical support/training sessions √ √ √ √
Standards-based assessment
tracks student progress √ √ √ √ √
Cost $160 - $272 per Portfolio** $2,000 start-up/$20.83-$30.00 per student, depending on length of contract Start-up fee + $50 per student, lowers with increase in number 0 - 2000 students = $9,300 annually Free TBD (based on options)
Ancillary or Stand Alone? Stand alone
Probably Stand
Alone Stand Alone
Probably Stand
Alone Stand Alone Stand Alone
Probably stand
alone Most likely ancillary Most likely ancillary
Clients http://www.desire2l earn.com/clients/hi gherEducation/ Drexel, Benelux Countries Data180 customizes its software in order to
meet client needs
Grand Canyon University, Lone
Star College
*Students have access to their portfolios after they have graduated until the end of the registration term **Portfolio@Duke costs are internal
***Occasional additional costs °Exported in .csv format
