1. Electronic Portfolios: Connecting People & Assessing Learning Julanna Gilbert University of Denver Director – Center for Teaching & Learning Associate Professor – Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry

2. DUPC Evolution  2000 - School of Communication faculty team ($230,000 grant from the Sturm Family Foundation)  2002 - Project moved to DU’s Center for Teaching & Learning more academic units more in-house support (people and funds) Faculty Electronic Portfolio Committee  September 2002 – DUPC launched, 12 major releases since then  August 2005 – 7700 faculty, student, staff, & alumni users (portfolios, communities, and/or assessment)

3. DUPC Characteristics Easy to use - showcase accomplishments and ideas – replace web sites Augments learning activities across disciplines Integrates with existing web systems on campus Complies with FERPA and with DU’s privacy & intellectual property guidelines Google-able!

4. DUPC Distinguishing features I.Portfolios for individuals, courses, communities –Available to ALL members of the DU community –One portfolio may serve many audiences –Directly accessible to the audience (Google-able, simple URL) –Searchable internally II.Comprehensive assessment management system –Faculty driven –Rubric library, Rubric builder –Customized by academic unit –Based on authentic student work –Reporting tools

5. DUPC A brief tour - portfolios Faculty and Staff Portfolios Ricardo Iznaola (music) Dean Saitta (anthropology) Davy Davis (theatre) Don Bacon (business) Amanda Johnson (staff) Jeanie Tischler (staff) Ricardo Iznaola Dean Saitta Davy Davis Don Bacon Amanda Johnson Jeanie Tischler Student Portfolios Elizabeth Hoskinson (music) Laura Johnson (English) Charlie Lawton (ecology) Reed Dixon (business) Amy Bollinger (graduate student) Sarah Adamis (psychology ?) Elizabeth Hoskinson Laura Johnson Charlie Lawton Reed Dixon Amy Bollinger Sarah Adamis Community/Course Portfolios Peace Corps Community Graduate Student Association Council The Teaching Task Force Peace Corps Community Graduate Student Association Council The Teaching Task Force Marsico Committee ( ~22 faculty member committee that is managing a $10M grant to improve liberal arts education at DU) PROF (Professional Research Opportunities for Faculty) The Center for Academic & Career Development Making of a Scientist (course for HS students) Physical Chemistry I (DU chemistry course) Making of a Scientist Physical Chemistry I https://portfolio.du.edu/

6. DUPC A brief tour - assessment https://portfolio.du.edu/ Assessment models (see handout) testing at specific curricular points (Fig. 2) assessment of uploaded student papers (Fig. 3) assessment of class assignments-not uploaded (Fig. 4)

7. DUPC A brief tour - assessment https://portfolio.du.edu/ Examples of DUPC assessment French Psychology First Year English

8. DUPC Assessment Student assessment process Assessor process Rubric library Reports

9. Technical Information System fully integrated with the central campus administration system (SCT Banner) Hosted on campus Apache/Tomcat (J2EE) based, Oracle back-end Sun Servers (one web server, one database server) Over 300 screens No storage quotas for users In-house development and support group located in DU’s CTL

10. DUPC What’s next? –Continue to work with academic units on assessment –Expand course tools at request of faculty –Continue to respond to input from users –Share application with other institutions

11. DUPC Acknowledgements Jeff Rutenbeck, Director, Digital Media Studies Program Linda Cobb-Reiley, School of Communication School of Communication Assessment Committee Paul Ross, Manager, Faculty Technology Resource Center Carrie Turner, Educational Program Developer Joseph Labrecque, Educational Multimedia Specialist Sheila Summers-Thompson, Director, Office of Assessment Faculty Electronic Portfolio Committee Funding: Sturm Foundation & the University of Denver