An Introduction to LiveText: ePortfolios and Beyond

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An Introduction to LiveText ePortfolios and
Beyond

• Webinar Series
• October 26, 2011

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Supporting Students and Learners (at All Levels)

• Reflective Learning Practices have driven the
  design of LiveText technology
• Students can easily archive their body of work
  over multiple semesters and multiple courses to
  more easily see and reflect on their own growth
  and development
• This is also true for faculty creating
  ePortfolios and can help improve their teaching
  through reflection (and document Tenure and
  Promotion)
• Program portfolios for Program Review Processes
• Student Centered Technology
• Students are the focal point and control their
  work
• Students can pick and choose various artifacts
  from their entire educationexperience, and make
  modifications for different purposes or different
  audiences

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Promoting Student Success

• Extensive Feedback Capabilities
• Faculty or Reviewer can post comments directly in
  the ePortfolio
• Previous Submissions feature succinctly tracks
  back and forthinteractions between student and
  faculty
• Rubric-based evaluation helps with collecting
  program-level data, in addition to providing
  feedback to the student
• Helping Students to Achieve Their Goals
• Skill Development and Degree Completion
• Clear and Organized Articulation of Their Success
• Depth of Learning is Easily Accessible to other
  Audiences, such as Employers, Parents, or
  Admissions Officers

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Shift in Accreditation to a Student-Centered Focus

• The Question Are your students really learning
• what you think you are teaching them?
• Recent trend in Accreditation requirements to
  focus on outcomes-based assessment of student
  performance.
• Teaching ? Learning
• Faculty Qualifications ? Student Outcomes
• Standardized Tests ? Performance-Based
  Assessment
• Snapshot assessments ? Evidence of growth and
  development over time
• GPA / Test Scores ? Portfolio

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Some Background on LiveText, Inc.

• Founded in 1998
• Higher Education Focus Since 2000
• Over 500 Member Institutions
• First-to-market with web-based ePortfolios
• Assessment Technology to Support Program
  Improvement andAccreditation
• NCATE/TEAC, AACSB/ACBSP/IACBE, WASC, SACS, HLC,
  Middle States, NEASC, NWASC, etc.
• Comprehensive Solution and Partner
• Software
• Support (Consulting and Tech Support)
• Community (Annual Conference, Regional Events,
  etc.)

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Some Member Institutions
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LiveText Supports the Assessment Process
Technology designed specifically to support the
assessment process Customized to fit your
program, not a standardized approach Supports
unlimited custom templates for eportfolios Compre
hensively designed to assess student growth and
development over time, based on your programs
rubrics, skills, and standards
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PRODUCT SCREENSHOTS
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Highly Integrated ePortfolio System

• Course catalogue, student roster, and optional
  student demographic can be imported from Student
  Information Systems (Banner, Datatel, PeopleSoft,
  etc.)
• Imports can be manually uploaded or scripted to
  run automatically
• Integrated with Blackboard via Building Block
• Integrated with Moodle
• Integrated with TurnItIn

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E-Portfolio

• Students, faculty, or programs can create
  electronic portfolios of their work
• All file extensions can be added as references or
  artifacts
• Portfolios can be shared with others for
  view-only access, review (comments and/or rubric
  review), or editing access
• Common types of student portfolios include
  Outcomes-Based Employment or Course
• Full HTML-editing and export capabilities

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Formative Feedback and Comments Tool

• LiveText portfolios or LiveText documents can be
  commented on directly
• Students/authors can see comments and make
  changes to subsequent versions of their work
• Comments are available at many levels overall
  general comment, pages, sections, and text-level
• Feedback helps with the pedagogy of learning
  students do not accept all (like in MS Word)
  but have to reflect on comment and incorporate
  changes

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File Manager Tool (available to all users)

• All work uploaded as an assignment or as a file
  attachment to a portfolio is stored in the File
  Manager
• File Manager is like the MyDocs in Windows, and
  stores all student work in one place
• Files are available for later use as long as the
  account is still active
• Files can be uploaded in multiple versions of
  e-portfolios, such as an employment or resume
  portfolio at graduation

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Learning Outcomes are Defined by Program
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Rubric Results - Learning Outcomes Assessment

• Assessment data is aggregated by rubric, and can
  be disaggregated by various filters
• Reports are clickable i.e., evidence of student
  work samples are available through the report by
  clicking on the number in the table
• Report calculates mean, mode, standard deviation
• Inter-rater summary available for multiple
  assessors using a common rubric
• Results can be stored in Exhibit Center or
  exported to Excel / CSV / PDF

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To learn more, visit http//livetext.com

• Katie Kalmus
• Director, Product and Customer Development
• LiveText / NYC
• katie_at_livetext.com
• C 703.989.7937