Enhancing and creating student centred porfolios 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/programmes/elearning/distributedvle.aspx

• http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/DVLE_Support• #jiscdvle

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

DVLE Programme Overview

*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)

Complex ePortfolio system

repository

support for reflection

sharing and collaboration

presentation of evidence

submission for assessment

Portfolio Activity Tool

Toolset

Collaborativeactivity

tool

Google Docs and Google SitesA brief walk through

Portfolio Activity Tool

Toolset

Collaborativeactivity

tool

Form

Template

Collection

Moodle Study Planner Google Docs

Portfolio Activity Tool

Portfolio Activity Tool

Toolset

Collaborativeactivity

tool

www.open.ac.uk/blogs/douls

#DOULS1

• Questions?

April 10, 2023

Enhancing and creating student centred portfolios in VLEs

Guy PurseyJISC Online Activity Week

Can everyone hear me okay?

• Yes• No

Three categories, …

... seven widgets

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 theBlackboard e-portfolio tool?

• Yes• No

Scope of the project developmentsInstructors Students

Template Instructors can specify a pre-existing structure for students to use in their e-portfolios, outlining required templates or pages and putting these templates or pages in a particular order.

Students can select a structure to load their e-portfolio with all the pages they need or that are required of them.

Feedback Instructors can leave comments on specific parts of a portfolio rather than be restricted to the comments section. Ownership of the comments belongs to the Instructor and they are stored outside the portfolio itself, so that the student cannot remove evidence that feedback has been left (though the student can choose to hide it if they wish).

Students will be able to see feedback in its proper context and change their pages accordingly without having the feedback stored in their actual portfolio. Rather it will be a layer that sits atop the portfolio pages.

Export Instructors will be able to tell students that it is now much more easy to download their portfolio

Students will be able to take their portfolios away in a more maintainable and standards compliant form before they leave the university.

Templates widget

Silent 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 widget

Silent video:http://screencast.com/t/AdLf9XaNoB1w

Open demo:http://bit.ly/u8kFD9

Feedback widget

Acknowledgements

The 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 Hague

JISC DVLE Programme Team

Contact details

Guy Purseyg.i.s.pursey@reading.ac.uk(Twitter: @guypursey)

Enhancement Officer (Educational Technologies)University of Reading

DEVELOP 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 20116th JISC Conference

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Outline• Introduction• Background to the ceLTIc project• What is LTIv1.0 (Basic LTI)?

– what it can do– benefits

• Questions

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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 Pack

What is LTI?

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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.cfm

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VLEs Added in Elgg

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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)

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Creating an LTI Link

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Learn 9.1

Moodle 2

WebCT

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)

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Example LTI Links

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Learn 9.1

Moodle 2

WebCT

Basic LTI Extensions• Three extensions widely available although

unofficial:– memberships– outcomes– setting

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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 module

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Elgg Group Synchronisation

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WebPA Users Synchronisation 1

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WebPA Users Synchronisation 2

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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 assessment

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WebPA Grades Update

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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 used

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Elgg Setting Example

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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: module

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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) context

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“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/copy

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Questions?

Project site: www.celtic-project.org

IMS: http://www.imsglobal.org/toolsinteroperability2.cfm