Rebecca Wilson, Project Manager, Australian Catholic University ACU required an ePortfolio solution for accreditation, embedding graduate attributes, and to provide a repository for Students and Academic staff’s electronic artefacts. The presentation will provide an overview of the selection criteria, evaluation of products, Desire2Learn implementation experiences, and pilot outcomes.

1. Rebecca Wilson Project Manager 25 June 2010 ACU ePortfolio Project

2. Definition A purposeful collection of information and digital artefacts that demonstrates development or evidences learning outcomes, skills or competenciesAn electronic tool that helps you successfully achieve your goals by better understanding yourself and receiving valuable feedback from others

3. Project Overview Why we did it Implementation and Review Evaluation stage Selection criteria

5. Curriculum requirement for certain faculties

6. Aid with transition from learning to working environments

8. Scope of the Project

10. Ability to present in a multi-pagewebsite

11. Store a wide range of digital artefacts, reflections and presentations

12. Able to personalise and customisepresentations

13. Ability to communicate with and assess student portfolios – to be adopted as a choice by lecturers

14. Students able to flag content using the University’s approved attributes

15. Flexible file size and storage limits

16. Ability to statistically report on ePortfoliouse

17. Sustainable after graduation

19. Rate against graduate attributes, and self made attributes

20. Customisable presentations

21. Wizard-like system

22. Interface is childlike

24. Good community base

25. Unable to create multipage views

26. Limited theme design and customisation by student

28. Web-based, platform independent

29. Simple interface for data input

30. Able to customise and personalise presentations

31. Management of graduate attributes

33. Aligned with an existing project at ACU

34. Good resume building tool

35. No theme design or customisation by student, difficult to manage content

37. Graduate Attributes

38. Desire2Learn Competencies Graduate attributes created as Learning Objectives Activities can be created under each Learning Objective Activity results can be measured

40. eLearning Coordinators, IT staff, Learning and Teaching staff

41. Students and academics provided with online self-paced tutorials and documentation

43. Feedback …taken to the assignment tasks like “ducks to water” and I have not heard one complaint from any of them. I find all this student activity quite amazing… Student motivation to learn and self assess has improved. They are learning more independently. The immediate benefit that I experienced with Desire2Learn was the paperless assessments. Being able to access students work from home without have to take it home was great. A definite time saver. There have been no problems reported to me by staff or students associated with not understanding how to use the software… Problems were related to equipment and space, the usual problems… Initial problems with students not accessing ePortfolio– this was improved with the addition of formative assessment/class activities built around ePortfolio Some anxiety around using ePortfolios. Resolved with regular small training bite sessions.

45. Involvement of faculty staff

46. Keep up the momentum

47. Support resourcesLessons Learnt

48. Thank you Questions?