Fred Cutler, CIRCLe 2018

1. 20,020 EPORTFOLIOS BY
20,020.
OR MAYBE 2,020?
The ubcarts.ca student webspace
service
FR ED C U TLER, D IR ECTOR AR TS IN STR UCTIONAL SU PPORT AN D IT

2. CAN WE CREATE AN
EPORTFOLIO CULTURE?
FOR 15,000 STUDENTS
IN 50 MAJORS
WITH RESEARCH-FOCUSED FACULTY
WITH NO INCENTIVES!

3. 3
ubcarts.ca
Where: UBC Faculty of Arts
What: Provide an eportfolio service for all students:
student.ubcarts.ca
When: Start summer 2017, Launch Sept 2018
Who: Arts Instructional Support and IT, plus Eportfolios TLEF project
Why: You know the why

4. 4
THE REAL GOAL…
Students actually take ownership and use
it
Without a push from course or program
requirements
…but how?

5. 5
ubcarts.ca SERVICE / PLATFORM DESIGN
CONSIDERATIONS
 Non-commercial service that they would have to pay for (e.g. Portfolium)
 Easy to start
 Easy to use
 Easy to share the way they want
 Easy to maintain and support as an enterprise service ($)
 Professional and modern look
 But not totally cookie-cutter and basic
 Asessment-friendly
 Available (free) forever
 Not imposed by Faculty, Departments, Programs, Courses, Instructors

6. 6
THE CHALLENGE
Some standardization for easy
onboarding and support
but,
Some customizability for student
ownership and expression

7. 7
UBCARTS.CA DESIGN FEATURES
• Wordpress platform. Scalable to 100,000 ‘blogs’.
• One custom post type: “Activity”
• Title, Abstract, Body, Learning Significance
• Activity (post) categories: Skills, Courses,
Extracurriculars
• Activities set as Private or Public
• Custom Collections – put activities together in lots of
ways

8. 8

9. 9
STUDENT-DEFINED CATEGORIES (e.g. SKILLS)

10. 10
BACK END

11. 11
NOW… MARKETING
We’re having to think like marketers
• Challenging to speak directly to all students
• We’re trying to tell them what’s good for them
• Don’t lose your work
• Track your learning
• See your progress
• Impress employers
• It’s not a creative artistic outlet itself
• Capstone course?

12. GOOD LUCK TO US!