An Introduction to LiveText: ePortfolios and Beyond

Webinar Series

October 26, 2011

Supporting Students and Learners (at All Levels)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 education

experience, and make modifications for different purposes or different audiences

Promoting Student SuccessPromoting Student Success

• Extensive Feedback Capabilities• Faculty or Reviewer can post comments directly in the ePortfolio• “Previous Submissions” feature succinctly tracks back and forth

interactions 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

Shift in Accreditation to a Student-Centered FocusShift in Accreditation to a Student-Centered Focus

The Question: Are your students really learningwhat you think you are teaching them?

Recent trend in Accreditation requirements to focus onoutcomes-based assessment of student performance.

Teaching LearningFaculty Qualifications Student OutcomesStandardized Tests Performance-Based AssessmentSnapshot assessments Evidence of growth and development over timeGPA / Test Scores Portfolio

Some Background on LiveText, Inc.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 and

Accreditationo NCATE/TEAC, AACSB/ACBSP/IACBE, WASC, SACS, HLC,

Middle States, NEASC, NWASC, etc. • Comprehensive Solution and Partnero Softwareo Support (Consulting and Tech Support)o Community (Annual Conference, Regional Events, etc.)

Some Member InstitutionsSome Member Institutions

LiveText Supports the Assessment ProcessLiveText 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

Comprehensively designed to assess student growth and development over time, based on your program’s rubrics, skills, and standards

PRODUCT SCREENSHOTS

Highly Integrated ePortfolio SystemHighly 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

E-Portfolio 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

Formative Feedback and Comments ToolFormative 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

File Manager Tool (available to all users)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

Learning Outcomes are Defined by ProgramLearning Outcomes are Defined by Program

Rubric Results - Learning Outcomes AssessmentRubric 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

To learn more, visit http://livetext.com

Katie KalmusDirector, Product and Customer Development

LiveText / NYC

katie@livetext.com

C: 703.989.7937