Northwestern University. The School of Education & Social Policy Mark Swindle Director, Web Communications James Webb Director, Information Technology ©2007 Northwestern University Accreditation and Accountability: Digital Portfolios, Virtual Showrooms and a CMS

Need : How to efficiently manage complex web sites? Step 1 Tackling content management Solution : Content management system (CMS)

Northwestern’s experience with an off-the-shelf product Northwestern’s Computer Science Department Need : How to efficiently manage complex web sites? Issue : Off-the-shelf or build our own? Step 1 Solution : Content management system (CMS)

Step 1 Northwestern’s experience with an off-the-shelf product Northwestern’s Computer Science Department SESP’s small size Need : How to efficiently manage complex web sites? Issue : Off-the-shelf or build our own? Solution : Content management system (CMS)

Step 1 Underlying (Free) Architecture “LAMP” or Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP/Perl

Step 1 CMS Architecture $$ Underlying (Free) Architecture “LAMP” or Linux + Apache + MySQL + PHP/Perl

Step 1 Alumni

Step 1 Editor

Step 2 Problem-solving with our CMS A robust CMS makes it possible to create web sites both media rich…

Step 2 A robust CMS makes it possible to create web sites both media-rich… and interactive

Step Creating custom tools for our community of users Digital Portfolio

Step Creating custom tools for our community of users Profile Engine

Step Creating custom tools for our community of users News Center

Step Creating custom tools for our community of users Virtual Showroom

Step Creating custom tools for our community of users Faculty Annual Report

Step Creating custom tools for our community of users Faculty Research Support

Step Creating custom tools for our community of users Digital Portfolio 2

Step Creating custom tools for our community of users Alumni Services

Step 3 Accreditation and Accountability Solution : We built a Digital Portfolio based on NCATE standards. We built a Virtual Showroom - also based on NCATE standards. Because they were built on the same framework, we could tie the two together – and connect both with other features in the CMS. Need : How could we answer the needs of our teacher certification program for portfolios and accreditation?

Step 3 Teacher Certification Program Students from 4 of the schools at Northwestern create a portfolio

Step 3 Their portfolio is based on a Conceptual Framework…

Step 3 …derived from NCATE Standards

Step 3 Artifacts/Reflections are mapped to Checkpoints, and to Principles. Final Checkpoint  Certification CP1 CP2FinalCert. Principle 1.1 Candidate Reviewer

Step 3 Portfolio Candidates Artifacts/Reflections upload, text entry, Notifications to Reviewers.

Step 3 Portfolio Reviewer

Step 3 Certification  Publish to Profile Page

Step 3 Virtual Showroom

Step 3 Uploading…

Step 3 View documents…

Step 3 …and Digital Portfolio Artifacts

Step 3 Reporting Engine

Step 3 Next?

Northwestern University. The School of Education & Social Policy James Webb (847) Mark Swindle (847) William Siegrist (847) ©2007 Northwestern University