Creating and Enhancing Student Centred Portfolios in VLEs

Enhancing and creating student centredporfolios in VLES Sheila MacNeill (JISC CETIS) Judith Pickering & Jason Platts (OU) Guy Pursey (Uni of Reading) Stephen Vickers & Simon Booth, ceLTIc project

DVLE Programme Background• Funded from July 2010 to December 2011• “Investigating how institutions can widen the functionality of their VLEs in an interoperable way, to meet identified user needs.”• http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programme s/elearning/distributedvle.aspx• http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/DVLE_Support• #jiscdvle

http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/topic/learning_platforms

DVLE Programme Overview Strand B July 2010 – December 2011: ceLTIc, DEVELOP, DOULS, SLEP, W2C Strand A July 2010 – December 2010: Exam View, Rich Interactive Quizzes, *WIDE *WIDGAT – LTIG project

Agenda• Integration of Moodle and Google to support ePortfolios at the Open University, Judith Pickering & Jason Platts• Enhancing and creating student portfolios in VLEs, Project, Guy Pursey, University of Reading,• What is IMS LTI? ceLTIc project, Simon Booth & Stephen Vickers (Universities of Stirling& Edinburgh)

Integration of Moodle and Google to support ePortfolios at the Open University Judith Pickering (Project Manager) Jason Platts (Lead Technical Developer)

ComplexePortfolio system

repository submission for assessmentsupport for reflection presentation of evidencesharing and collaboration

Google DocsCollaborative Google eTMA activity Sites tool Toolkit Toolset VLE Portfolio My GoogleActivity Tool References Activity... VLE Blog

Google Docs and Google Sites A brief walk through

Portfolio Activity Tool CollectionMoodle Study Planner Google Docs Template Form

www.open.ac.uk/blogs/douls #DOULS1

• Questions?

Enhancing and creating student centred portfolios in VLEs Guy Pursey JISC Online Activity WeekNovember 22, 2011

Can everyone hear me okay?• Yes• No

Three categories, … Content Metadata E-portfolios

... seven widgetsContent Metadata E-portfolios Video Tagging Templates External Recommender Feedback content Export

Previous e-portfolio experience• Blackboard Academic Suite (2006)• iLearn (2007-9)• Legal Skills workshops (2006-now)• TDA-funded project (2007-8)• PDP event (2008)

Do you use Blackboard as your VLE?• Yes• No

Have you ever used the Blackboard e-portfolio tool?• Yes• No

Scope of the project developments Instructors StudentsTemplate Instructors can specify a pre-existing Students can select a structure to load structure for students to use in their e- their e-portfolio with all the pages they portfolios, outlining required templates need or that are required of them. or pages and putting these templates or pages in a particular order.Feedback Instructors can leave comments on Students will be able to see feedback in specific parts of a portfolio rather than its proper context and change their be restricted to the comments section. pages accordingly without having the Ownership of the comments belongs to feedback stored in their actual portfolio. the Instructor and they are stored Rather it will be a layer that sits atop the outside the portfolio itself, so that the portfolio pages. student cannot remove evidence that feedback has been left (though the student can choose to hide it if they wish).Export Instructors will be able to tell students Students will be able to take their that it is now much more easy to portfolios away in a more maintainable download their portfolio and standards compliant form before they leave the university.

Templates widgetSilent video:http://screencast.com/t/Co75ORtG8n0

Would you find this approach useful?A. “Yes, definitely I can see an application for this.”B. “Potentially...”C. “We already have something like this in place.”D. “No, I can’t see how something like this would be useful for us.”E. None of the above.

Legal Skills 2011

Evaluation Sheet• How easy/difficult did you find it to create your e- portfolio?• What did you like about creating the portfolio (if anything) and what issues did you have (if any)?• How useful was the wizard (the prompts on the left) in guiding you through the process?• To what extent do you think this approach would be useful for other tools that you have used?

Feedback widgetSilent video:http://screencast.com/t/AdLf9XaNoB1wOpen demo:http://bit.ly/u8kFD9

Feedback widget

AcknowledgementsThe development and implementation of the e- portfolio widgets would not be possible without:People at the University of Reading (in particular):• Karsten Øster Lundqvist• Pat Parslow• Louise HagueJISC DVLE Programme Team

Contact detailsGuy Purseyg.i.s.pursey@reading.ac.uk(Twitter: @guypursey)Enhancement Officer (Educational Technologies)University of ReadingDEVELOP Project (JISC DVLE Programme)http://www.reading.ac.uk/blogs/develop

• Questions?

What is IMS Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI)? Simon Booth (University of Stirling) Susi Peacock (Queen Margaret University) Stephen Vickers (The University of Edinburgh) Innovating eLearning 2011 6th JISC Conference

Outline• Introduction• Background to the ceLTIc project• What is LTIv1.0 (Basic LTI)? – what it can do – benefits• Questions48

ceLTIc Project• Project: – “Creating Environments for Learning using Tightly Integrated Components” – JISC funded (July 2010 – Dec 2011)• Aim: – integration of elearning applications with VLE/LMS using IMS Learning Tools Interoperability• Project partners: – The University of Edinburgh, University of Stirling, Queen Margaret University• Commercial partners: – IMS, Blackboard Inc, Learning Objects Inc and Pebble Learning Ltd• Case studies: – Elgg, WebPA, PebblePad, Campus Pack49

What is LTI?50

Developer• Use a single language of choice – some class libraries available (e.g. ceLTIc project has produced one for PHP)• “Write once, use many times”• Replaces Blackboard Building Blocks and PowerLinks, Moodle modules, …• List of conformant products – http://www.imsglobal.org/cc/statuschart.cfm51

VLEs Added in Elgg52

System Administrators• LTIv1.0 is core to all major VLEs• Configured with three items of data: – URL – key – secret• Select context and user data which is passed• No testing required of individual integrations (normal due diligence of provider/supplier still needed)53

Creating an LTI Link Learn 9.1 WebCT Moodle 254

Instructors/Teachers• Simply add tool to course• Possible to find new tool AM and be using it PM!• Click on link to access tool (single sign-on)• Data sent covers user, context and role (so tool can use this data)55

Example LTI Links Learn 9.1 Moodle 2 WebCT56

Basic LTI Extensions• Three extensions widely available although unofficial: – memberships – outcomes – setting57

Extensions - Memberships• Tool can request list of enrolments from VLE: – user ID – name – email – role (e.g. Instructor, Learner, etc.)• Example use cases: – Elgg: synchronise group members – WebPA: synchronise staff and students in module58

Elgg Group Synchronisation59

WebPA Users Synchronisation 160

WebPA Users Synchronisation 261

Extension - Outcomes• Tool can send, retrieve and delete value for each learner from a column in the grade book• Data can be numeric, letter, text• Example use cases: – Elgg: date/time of last login – WebPA: grade for assessment62

WebPA Grades Update63

Extensions - Setting• Tool can send, retrieve and delete data specific to the context (i.e., the launch link used)• Example use cases: – Elgg: date/time of last membership synchronisation – WebPA: date/time of last users synchronisation, date/time of last grades update and assessment used64

Elgg Setting Example65

Collaboration: Use Cases• Collaboration between users from: – different courses within the same VLE – different VLEs at the same institution – different VLEs at different institutions – or any combination thereof!• All users share the same space within the tool: – Elgg: group – WebPA: module66

Prototype Sharing Workflow• Generate a "sharing key" in primary context (e.g. group or module)• Send "sharing key" to instructor of course to collaborate with (secondary context)• Add link to tool in secondary context and include "sharing key" as a custom parameter• Use link to launch tool in normal way• All users join same (primary) context67

“Full” LTI• Differences from Basic LTI: – automated tool registration – placements in tool consumer – internationalisation – access to web services; e.g. • user information • course information • gradebook – notification of VLE events; e.g. • application state change • course archive/restore/copy68

Questions?Project site: www.celtic-project.orgIMS: http://www.imsglobal.org/toolsinteroperability2.cfm69

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