Software

e-Portfolio Commercial Software

Software	*Clients*	*Type/Use*	*Brief Description*	*Price*
Nuventive	Unknown	developmental assessment showcase	Provides users with personalized, flexible online portfolio to store and present a lifetime's worth of educational and professional experience. Also helps faculty members, departments, and schools meet institutional and accrediting goals, review student work, and provide feedback.	$24/per student/per year
Personal Learning Plan login: ucdtlt password: plp	Several universities and colleges including University of Colorado at Denver	primarily developed for the purpose of development and assessment, but does include showcase feature	The Personal Learning Plan (PLP) is a structured process for building educational decisions and plans upon the strengths, interests and aspirations of the learner. It provides students, as well as other stakeholders, with the opportunity to submit and examine goals and artifacts as evidence for learning.	currently in beta-test stage, costs are not currently available
Interfolio	Cornell University University of Virginia University of Chicago Rutgers University National Communications Association	Showcase- created with purpose of sending documents/ transcripts no assessment connections	Manages credential files (send academic credentials to a search committee, a teaching portfolio to a hiring district, or an application for admittance to a graduate school). Helps manage the paper processing demands of receiving, managing, and distributing credential files.	Charges "student" account holders $12 annual setup and $5 mailing fee Also works with career centers and receiving institutions.
FolioLive	Used by Pittsburgh State University- two templates have been developed by College of Education.	Assessment- students can organize portfolio around any set of standards	McGraw-Hill Customized portfolios hosted on McGraw-Hill server. Faculty may require it as part of the textbook purchase.	No pricing information available on website, discount available if student purchases portfolio as part of the textbook bundle.
TaskStream's Web Folio Builder login: kimhansen password: kimhansen6033	Unknown	developmental assessment showcase	Web-based suite of tools for curriculum design, electronic portfolios, faculty/student mentoring, and course management. Instructors/students create own portfolio or use set templates for organizing resources. standards primary market: teacher ed programs	Web Folio Builder is marketed to individuals. Pricing is $20 per semester or $40 per year per person, group rates are also available.
Open Source Portfolio Initiative	University of Minnesota	developmental showcase	The Open Source Portfolio Initiative (OSPI) is a collaborative, open source software development project based on the University of Minnesota's electronic portfolio (ePortfolio) software. The University of Minnesota, The University of Delaware, and The RSmart Group, are the founding members of this collaborative alliance.	It is free to join OSPI and the source code can be downloaded to the ePortfolio for free. If you don't need any further assistance, then the costs are your internal support costs.
ePortaro	Unknown	showcase	New tool as of 8/1/02, helps students, faculty, staff, recruiters, and employers collaborate.	pricing information not available on website
ePortConsortium	UUPP includes: Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, California State University, Georgia State University, Portland State University, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Massachusetts Boston	developmental assessment showcase	Electronic Portfolio Consortium (ePortConsortium) is the collaboration of select higher education institutions working to define, design, and develop an interoperable and transportable electronic portfolios system.	Members pay $10,000 per year to participate.
TrueOutcomes see a demo login: prof04 password: prof044	University of Akron Arizona State Bradley University City Colleges of Chicago Cal Polytechnic Pomona George Mason Houghton College Northern Kentucky U of Rhode Island (CELS and ELE) Sinclair CC Southwest Missouri University of Texas Villanova University York College of Pennsylvania	developmental assessment showcase	Provides a universal assessment solution, linking administrators, faculty, students, alumni, and external stakeholders through flexible assessment instruments. Includes a student-driven Professional Portfolio, a faculty-controlled Juried Portfolio, a Curriculum Record, and a survey instrument. This software is specifically designed for course/program/institution assessment.	$10/student (one time fee) own server = $5,000 flat fee annual maint = $2.00/year $1500 per 2 day training session