TaskStream What’s in store?

Advance Organizer • Portfolio Concerns and TaskStream Solutions

• Author (Student) and Evaluator (Faculty)

features

• Employment Portfolio

• Utility for SPAs

• Questions and Answers

(Please write all questions on the notes

sheet and we will address them at the

conclusion of the presentation)

Introduction • Teacher Education Council tasks 2010-2011

• TaskStream as a platform to increase utility, flexibility, and adaptability to concerns with and and changes to our E-Portfolio

• Purpose: To present solutions to current E-Portfolio concerns identified by TE and C&F faculty and to demonstrate key features of the TaskStream platform

The Associate

Dean’s Message

Each program will be associated

with a code. This is where the

student enters it to be part

of that program. We can also

manually assign them.

These are the programs

that the person is

associated with.

Student Instructor Program Coordinator or

Checkpoint Assessor

Not meaningful to students

• Ability to develop rubrics specific to

assessment, but reported by outcome.

• Ability to tailor portfolio to program

needs

• Ability to create/publish

portfolio with own design

Submission Issues • Students can see who they submitted

artifacts to and they can even cancel

the submission before it is graded

• Students upload and submit on the same screen

• Students can submit more than one file for a requirement (useful for multi-part artifacts like the Teacher Work Sample)

• Students would not need to submit portfolios for checkpoint since the assessment manager can have access to view the entire portfolio

• Ability to assess “no-submission” assignments, like disposition or student teaching evaluations

Artifact Status

Directors and

Evaluation Method

Artifact Submission

Type(s)

Form; Text & Image; Slideshow;

Standards; Attachments; Videos; Links

Student Summary Sheet and My Files (All-in-One)

History of Artifact (where did it go; what did they say)

Instructor Assessment Issues

• Instructor can get an email when

items are submitted to them

• Log in screen provides a link to all

assessments that need to be

completed.

Accessibility of Information

• You can view all of the items that have been submitted or graded in the student’s portfolio (they just have to save the items) and you can view all assessments.

• Evaluation managers have access to view status of all students artifacts and assessments

• Permission can be given to edit or override evaluations

You can either select the

individual’s artifact or

program you want to assess

View ALL Artifacts

Waiting to be Assessed

Evaluation

History

Rubric

Assessment

Resubmit

artifact

Provide the student with

either a sample artifact;

their artifact with changes;

or any other document

Grade artifact, but

do not release it to

the student for

viewing

Grade artifact and

submit it to student

for viewing

Release or Finalize

Grades All at Once

Usefulness and

Employment Portfolio • Students can create as many portfolios as they want

to create no matter their past, present or future degrees

• Allows students to create their own employment portfolios, design them however they want, and publish them to the web. This might be more engaging for the students and allows for greater personalization.

Students who receive

Incompletes

• Submitting to anybody at any time can

be set up to allow students to submit to

any faculty at any time.

Training

• Customer Service is available via phone

(instantly) and email (within 24 hours)

• Training will be available via in-person, website

video and on TaskStream

• Portfolio website has also been updated to

provide assistance

• Instructors or programs can make their own artifacts

(course or program specific), which will be helpful for

SPA Reporting especially since rubrics can be linked to

CEHS outcomes or SPA standards.

– Note: Any common course artifacts must use the same rubric.

• By creating artifact-specific rubrics, we can select

the specific domains that are utilized for each

outcome or artifact

• Rubrics will be more specific

to the artifacts

Rubric Issues

Create Your Own Rubric

Rubric Assignment

Other Issues to be Addressed

• Transfer students do not have assessed required artifacts from prior courses

–They could see exactly what needs to be uploaded to the template

• Timing of when artifacts are due

–This is a College issue, but the system allows students to submit to anybody they want

• Reliance on narrative, qualitative rubrics makes quantification and utility of data difficult

–Assignment specific rubrics will need to be created

Other Issues to be Addressed

• Instructors not evaluating artifacts on time or at all

– Possible to link portfolio assessment with course grading,

making it more likely that instructors will grade artifacts.

– Evaluation manager can evaluate student work or edit

previous evaluations.

• Checkpoints

– Evaluation managers can be established to allow faculty to

complete checkpoint assessments

– DRF can be set-up to identify specific required artifacts at

different checkpoints

• Student Autonomy

– Space for optional artifacts

Utility for

SPAs

Questions?