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Application administration:
“Reasonable” system admin responsibilities
Authentication via University’s Active Directory or LDAP with single sign on for provisioning username and passwords
Compatible with Banner student for provisioning accounts with the ability to
import/preload student demographics and attributes; import/preload courses,
programs of study, faculty information
Vendor tech support and training
Adequate space and upload parameters for student to store work; scalable
as usage increases
Hosted and non-hosted options
Ability to create and export reports that provide information on number of
portfolios, assets, student accesses, evaluation tools, etc.
“Integrate” with campus LMS
“Integrate” with My MT transcript
Application functionality:
24/7 availability
Works on wide variety of operating systems (Mac and PC users), browsers,
device, including mobile;
Standards based
Accessibility – VAT provided for the student / faculty user as well as the
output
Ability to upload all types of files, appropriate file upload sizes; ability to
show work completed in design software such as AutoCad and Revit, etc.;
visual work displays well with color rendition control
Easy to use –student build and upload; end-use viewer; faculty evaluators
Student licensing, access, and use can extend beyond student’s graduation
date if so desired
Portable content – standard export files
Portfolio Build and Asset Control functionality:
Capability to build portfolios from templates or from scratch
Templates can vary across departments; unlimited templates creation
allowed
Capability to design templates that give users varying degrees of creative
control
Ability to create profiles with role-based permissions– able to manipulate
views, access to individual files, etc.; Ability to provide different views to be
shared with different types of viewers – employers, peers, faculty,
administrators, etc.; Both public and private settings
Ability for student to create their own URL
Ability to tag and share artifacts
Application-­‐based Evaluation methodology:
Ability to have peer comments / feedback from the same course or different
course
Ability to have instructor comments
Competencies can be tracked in the eportfolio tied to deliverables
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Ability to use rubric(s) in eportfolio
Ability to submit an eportfolio to the LMS dropbox
Need a "save as" function for eportfolio so student doesn't continue to
change it if used as a graded assignment
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