One of the potential mashes here would a portfolio system so that specific assessment information, such a score on a rubric, could link to a specimen of student work. We had initiated contact between eLumen and the e-portfolio managers in the CT system. This might be good place to figure out where that project went or its status.http://elumen.element-u.com/forum/read.php?6,61,61#msg-61Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:54:29 -0700 Phorum 5.2.6a http://elumen.element-u.com/forum/read.php?6,61,109#msg-109 http://elumen.element-u.com/forum/read.php?6,61,109#msg-109
Even though it is open source software, assignments and assignment submission of electronic artifacts do not integrate well with other assessment systems. We do have one experience on this respect.

In general, it was never intended for use with other assessment packages.

Any modification to Sakai is extremely expensive given its size and the fact that it uses the Velocity software package.

Plus, the users were a little disappointed with the portfolio features. The UI is somewhat complicated.]]> sebastian MashupsThu, 03 Apr 2008 09:54:10 -0700 http://elumen.element-u.com/forum/read.php?6,61,99#msg-99 http://elumen.element-u.com/forum/read.php?6,61,99#msg-99
eLumen doesn't (yet) have the eportfolio functions that it might, but 'market pressures' certainly point in this direction. I had mentioned at the NEASC annual conference that I learned a new company had formed called Cengage, formerly known as Prince (no, not really, but formerly known as Thompson Learning), which also then bought out a fairly developed Learning Outcomes Management System called TrueOutcomes, subsequently putting major development resources behind it. This will be fully integrateable with LMS's, and will include a full-blown electronic-portfolio functionality. So we are in the midst of the emergence of some big players.

In all of this, one of the virtues of being where we are with eLumen, is that we are right in the midst of the simultaneous development of the system itself as it addresses our needs, and in the midst of defining its use according to our own expectations of standards, academic self-direction, core values of teaching and learning. Though eLumen itself is not opensource, where we are at in its development and use is much more like an opensource environment than I suspect will be the case when a full, commercial, prepackaged system gets instituted by someone further away from the ground-level implementation.

It is not always pretty (or comfortable) being on the development-edge of this stuff, but at least at this point we have the space and the opportunity to explore possibilities before options might be suddenly narrowed by system choices and decisions.

Brian]]> anthrodocz MashupsFri, 14 Mar 2008 06:25:23 -0700 http://elumen.element-u.com/forum/read.php?6,61,76#msg-76 http://elumen.element-u.com/forum/read.php?6,61,76#msg-76is going to need to do double work. Actually, I had no idea that eP allowed work to be scored. I figured that the scoring would be done in eLumen(but I don't know how since assessments' scores don't translate directly to grades and currently our students need grades). Also, I need more info on how an assignment is scored in eLumen. I figured that assignments get scored separately and students get assessed on a collection of performances on various assignments.

If this is true, a direct tie-in to eP would be difficult. Also, read what i said in the last post about there not being a way to generate a link tot he view in eP. That could put the kibosh on this idea. I'll contact CTDLC some time this week and write again when i know what eP is going to support.

A note to the public: obviously, i am not an eLumen user other than to make sure the system is working. I am an admin, so forgive my ignorance when it comes to data to day usage by faculty.]]> jrevillini MashupsSat, 23 Feb 2008 13:03:05 -0800 http://elumen.element-u.com/forum/read.php?6,61,75#msg-75 http://elumen.element-u.com/forum/read.php?6,61,75#msg-75 ersinghaus MashupsSat, 23 Feb 2008 10:02:17 -0800 http://elumen.element-u.com/forum/read.php?6,61,70#msg-70 http://elumen.element-u.com/forum/read.php?6,61,70#msg-70
Another option I was thinking of was just having a field in eLumen to paste in a URL. E.g. you go to eP, grab the URL for the assignment "inbox" for a particular class, go into eL, create an assignment/assessment, and paste int he URL to associate the two. I told Ken my idea, but he said that eP doesn't offer that type of view.

I want to confirm these things with CTDLC, but if this is the case, we might need to look at other options to tie student work to eLumen assessments.]]> jrevillini MashupsTue, 19 Feb 2008 10:52:03 -0800 http://elumen.element-u.com/forum/read.php?6,61,69#msg-69 http://elumen.element-u.com/forum/read.php?6,61,69#msg-69
NOT IT!]]> jrevillini MashupsTue, 19 Feb 2008 07:48:53 -0800 http://elumen.element-u.com/forum/read.php?6,61,68#msg-68 http://elumen.element-u.com/forum/read.php?6,61,68#msg-68It's definitely a ColdFusion application but I don't think it's open at all.]]> kenc MashupsTue, 19 Feb 2008 07:12:40 -0800 http://elumen.element-u.com/forum/read.php?6,61,63#msg-63 http://elumen.element-u.com/forum/read.php?6,61,63#msg-63
So, for example, we could write a php application which reads in the ePortfolio publications of student work(IF it's a standard database system and they give us read access from outside the system), then reads in all the scores, and allows the user to create a link between a score and a piece of work. Sounds wonderful at the outset, but it'd be quite a trick to actually use, since it jumps out of the workflow of the eLumen scoring system and puts you in another application.

Getting back to what i was saying - what you want, i think, needs to be a feature request to eLumen for one of two things:

a) request fields in the rubric which ties the rubric to a selected work in ePortfolio, or
b) request that a hook API be added to eLumen so that hooks could be written which add fields to the view, processes the connection data at the model level, and gathers data from eP at the controller level to get it ready for the view. (this would be ideal)
Phorum (the forum software we're running on this site) makes extensive use of hooks, which can do everything from add new fields to the post form to database maintenance.

I'll see if Ken C. knows anything about the openness of the e-Portfolio database.]]> jrevillini MashupsSat, 16 Feb 2008 13:26:05 -0800 http://elumen.element-u.com/forum/read.php?6,61,61#msg-61 http://elumen.element-u.com/forum/read.php?6,61,61#msg-61
We had initiated contact between eLumen and the e-portfolio managers in the CT system. This might be good place to figure out where that project went or its status.]]> ersinghaus MashupsSat, 16 Feb 2008 12:45:34 -0800