[Portfolio] Access to portfolios beyond graduation

[Beth Kirschner]

Marc,

    In regards to your side-note, there are others that would like to  
see the ability to transfer ownership on collaborative portfolios as  
well (see http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-17269). The best way  
to move this forward would be to propose some user interface mockups  
on how this could be done -- the backend functionality is not very  
difficult.

- Beth

On Nov 19, 2009, at 8:15 AM, Zaldivar, Marc wrote:

> Nancy,
>
> Thank you for starting this thread.   Your questions are mine too!
>
> This is probably our most common workshop question from faculty,  
> especially graduate faculty.  We are trying to organize a plan with  
> our Alumni group to think through the issues of access, but haven't  
> made a lot of headway yet.  Right now, we tell the students/faculty  
> two things:
>
>
> 1.  Before the students graduate, the portfolios they create can be  
> downloaded and moved to an external webspace.  (Unfortunately, the  
> "download" button is not very reliable many times, but "Save Page  
> As..." from the browser usually works for us.)
> 2.  We do not really delete anything from the system currently.  We  
> encourage a self-cleaning policy, and because portfolios are aligned  
> many times for assessment, we're leaving most things (sites, files,  
> etc.) for a life cycle of potentially 7-10 years.  (Of course we're  
> only just beginning, so who knows? :-)  In that scenario, the  
> presentations students create, if made public, will exist for static  
> display.  They wouldn't be able to login to change them, but the URL  
> should still be active.  They could still show off that portion of  
> their work, perhaps linking it into a new portfolio created in  
> another space...
>
> However, I'm not really happy with that.  I'd love to hear from  
> others about how they have approached this issue.  Ideally, I'd love  
> to see a model where we could have alumni pay for access to a  
> running instance of OSP where they could continue to build and grow  
> their portfolios.
>
> Also, a side issue, but related.  I was really happy to see the  
> collaborative portfolio functionality come to fruition so quickly.   
> It's a really important feature that several of our groups will be  
> anxious to try out (I think we'll be upgrading this summer).   
> However, I can envision this scenario on our campus.  We have  
> several leadership organizations or service learning groups that are  
> interested in using the collaborative portfolio structure to reflect  
> collectively on and demonstrate development of their community work,  
> for one example.  As I understand it currently, if Student A starts  
> the collaborative portfolio, she is the "owner" and can invite  
> others into it to help build it.  When Student A graduates, how does  
> she move ownership over to Student Q, the upcoming sophomore in the  
> group?  I suppose it could be done manually,  by copying the forms  
> in the interaction folder over to Student Q and having him rebuild  
> it and start up a new one, but that would change the exist
> ing URL...  I suppose it could just live in Student A's account, for  
> Student Q to take it over as main collaborator, but that could get  
> messy after a few generations I'd imagine.  Any ideas before we  
> begin designing these projects?
>
> Marc
>
>
> On 11/18/09 4:42 PM, "Nancy O'Laughlin" <nolaug at UDel.Edu> wrote:
>
> We have had several requests from faculty to continue student  
> portfolio
> access beyond graduation for viewing and editing. I was wondering how
> other institutions handle this. Could you let me know what policies  
> you
> have in place or are considering? Are there any particular issues
> involved with giving extended access to students?
> Thanks,
> Nancy
>
> --
> Nancy J. O'Laughlin, Ed.D.
> IT-Client Support & Services, University of Delaware
> 030 Smith Hall, 18 Amstel Avenue
> Newark, DE 19716
> nolaug at udel.edu     302.831.0737
>
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