Presentation given as part of the JISC Online Conference, 2011, Activity Week.

1. Enhancing and creating student
centredporfolios in VLES
Sheila MacNeill (JISC CETIS)
Judith Pickering & Jason Platts (OU)
Guy Pursey (Uni of Reading)
Stephen Vickers & Simon Booth, ceLTIc project

2. 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/programme
s/elearning/distributedvle.aspx
• http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/DVLE_Support
• #jiscdvle

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

4. DVLE Programme Overview
Strand B July 2010 –
December 2011:
ceLTIc, DEVELOP,
DOULS, SLEP, W2C
Strand A July 2010 –
December 2010:
Exam View, Rich
Interactive
Quizzes, *WIDE
*WIDGAT – LTIG project

5. 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)

6. Integration of Moodle and Google to
support ePortfolios at the Open
University
Judith Pickering (Project Manager)
Jason Platts (Lead Technical Developer)

7. Complex
ePortfolio
system

8. repository
submission for assessment
support for reflection
presentation of evidence
sharing and collaboration

9. Google
Docs
Collaborative
Google
eTMA
activity
Sites
tool
Toolkit
Toolset
VLE
Portfolio My
Google
Activity Tool References
Activity...
VLE Blog

10. Google Docs and Google Sites
A brief walk through

11. Google
Docs
Collaborative
Google
eTMA
activity
Sites
tool
Toolkit
Toolset
VLE
Portfolio My
Google
Activity Tool References
Activity...
VLE Blog

12. Portfolio Activity Tool
Collection
Moodle Study Planner Google Docs
Template
Form

16. Google
Docs
Collaborative
Google
eTMA
activity
Sites
tool
Toolkit
Toolset
VLE
Portfolio My
Google
Activity Tool References
Activity...
VLE Blog

19. www.open.ac.uk/blogs/douls
#DOULS1

20. • Questions?

21. Enhancing and creating student centred
portfolios in VLEs
Guy Pursey
JISC Online Activity Week
November 22, 2011

22. Can everyone hear me okay?
• Yes
• No

23. Three categories, …
Content
Metadata
E-portfolios

24. ... seven widgets
Content Metadata E-portfolios
Video Tagging Templates
External
Recommender Feedback
content
Export

25. Previous e-portfolio experience
• Blackboard Academic Suite (2006)
• iLearn (2007-9)
• Legal Skills workshops (2006-now)
• TDA-funded project (2007-8)
• PDP event (2008)

26. Do you use Blackboard as your VLE?
• Yes
• No

27. Have you ever used the
Blackboard e-portfolio tool?
• Yes
• No

28. Scope of the project developments
Instructors Students
Template Instructors can specify a pre-existing Students can select a structure to load
structure for students to use in their e- their e-portfolio with all the pages they
portfolios, outlining required templates need or that are required of them.
or pages and putting these templates or
pages in a particular order.
Feedback Instructors can leave comments on Students will be able to see feedback in
specific parts of a portfolio rather than its proper context and change their
be restricted to the comments section. pages accordingly without having the
Ownership of the comments belongs to feedback stored in their actual portfolio.
the Instructor and they are stored Rather it will be a layer that sits atop the
outside the portfolio itself, so that the portfolio pages.
student cannot remove evidence that
feedback has been left (though the
student can choose to hide it if they
wish).
Export Instructors will be able to tell students Students will be able to take their
that it is now much more easy to portfolios away in a more maintainable
download their portfolio and standards compliant form before
they leave the university.

29. Templates widget
Silent video:
http://screencast.com/t/Co75ORtG8n0

35. 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.

36. Legal Skills 2011

37. 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?

38. Feedback widget
Silent video:
http://screencast.com/t/AdLf9XaNoB1w
Open demo:
http://bit.ly/u8kFD9

40. Feedback widget

44. 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

45. Contact details
Guy Pursey
g.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

46. • Questions?

47. 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 2011
6th JISC Conference

48. Outline
• Introduction
• Background to the ceLTIc project
• What is LTIv1.0 (Basic LTI)?
– what it can do
– benefits
• Questions
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49. 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
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50. What is LTI?
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51. 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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52. VLEs Added in Elgg
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53. 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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54. Creating an LTI Link
Learn 9.1
WebCT
Moodle 2
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55. 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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56. Example LTI Links
Learn 9.1
Moodle 2
WebCT
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57. Basic LTI Extensions
• Three extensions widely available although
unofficial:
– memberships
– outcomes
– setting
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58. 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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59. Elgg Group Synchronisation
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60. WebPA Users Synchronisation 1
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61. WebPA Users Synchronisation 2
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62. 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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63. WebPA Grades Update
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64. 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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65. Elgg Setting Example
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66. 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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67. 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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68. “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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69. Questions?
Project site: www.celtic-project.org
IMS: http://www.imsglobal.org/toolsinteroperability2.cfm
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