1. 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

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

3. 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)

4. 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)

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

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

7. Step 1 Alumni

8. Step 1 Editor

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

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

11. Step 2 2004 2005 2006 2007 Creating custom tools for our community of users Digital Portfolio

12. Step 2 2004 2005 2006 2007 Creating custom tools for our community of users Profile Engine

13. Step 2 2004 2005 2006 2007 Creating custom tools for our community of users News Center

14. Step 2 2004 2005 2006 2007 Creating custom tools for our community of users Virtual Showroom

15. Step 2 2004 2005 2006 2007 Creating custom tools for our community of users Faculty Annual Report

16. Step 2 2004 2005 2006 2007 Creating custom tools for our community of users Faculty Research Support

17. Step 2 2004 2005 2006 2007 Creating custom tools for our community of users Digital Portfolio 2

18. Step 2 2004 2005 2006 2007 Creating custom tools for our community of users Alumni Services

19. 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?

20. Step 3 Teacher Certification Program Students from 4 of the schools at Northwestern create a portfolio. 2004 2005 2006 2007

21. Step 3 Their portfolio is based on a Conceptual Framework…

22. Step 3 …derived from NCATE Standards

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

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

25. Step 3 Portfolio Reviewer

26. Step 3 Certification  Publish to Profile Page

27. Step 3 Virtual Showroom 2004 2005 2006 2007

28. Step 3 Uploading…

29. Step 3 View documents…

30. Step 3 …and Digital Portfolio Artifacts

31. Step 3 Reporting Engine

32. Step 3 Next?

33. Northwestern University. The School of Education & Social Policy James Webb (847) 467.3833 Mark Swindle (847) 467.2939 William Siegrist (847) 467.2939 ©2007 Northwestern University www.sesp.northwestern.edu/hlc