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July 11, 2006

Impact 2006: Workshop 2: WebCT E-Portfolio (Tuesday Afternoon)

The Tuesday Afternoon session delt with the new E-Portfolio option for WebCT 6.

E-portfolios allow users to store information for sharing with other individuals (other students, class, instructor, employers, etc.). This information exists outside of course space, so stay around after a course is finished. However, you can copy content from WebCT courses (discussions, assignments, etc.)

This can be made available to people outside the WebCT system. The user can control which users can see what information. (Employeers can see different information from friends).

Using portolios:

  • The portfolio shows up as the "Portfolio" tab in MyWebCT.
  • Select it, and you get a list of portfolios you own, and other people's portfolios you can review.
  • Selecting "My Portfolio" gives a tab with a "Build Portfolio" and "View Portfolio" tab.

Buiding a portfolio:

  • Similar to building a WebCT course.
  • Can add files.
  • Can manage guests, portfolio views, preferences, and track guests.
  • Can add tools: binders, calendar, gallery, goals, message center, reflections, resume, web links
  • Integrated with WebCT 6 courses. Can select discussions, assignments, grades, etc. and add to portfolio.

Tool Information:

  • Galleries, collections of pictures, works, etc. Can be organized into topics.

Guests:

  • Portfolio users can be from off campus!

Import/Export

  • Can export the information to zip files for loading in later.
  • Apparantly follows IMS standards, but not guaranteeing we can import these into other portfolio systems yet.
  • There is currently no way to integrate this with applications outside of WebCT. For example, can't select "add to portfolio" from the Blog system. Perhaps development of an API for this will be a future enhancement.

Technical details

  • Can have several portfolios attached to users. So a single user can get portfolios for courses, jobs, personal, etc.
  • Think they can copy material between portfolios

Cost:

  • This does not come with the base WebCT 6 system. We must purchase it separately.
  • unknown, must talk to account manager

Posted by kvl014 at July 11, 2006 01:25 PM