Candidate Overview of PASS-PORT

Candidate Overview of PASS-PORT

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Welcome to PASS-PORT! Begin your orientation to PASS-PORT by Viewing an animated overview.

With PASS-PORT, you will be able to move through your College of Education's assessment system. In addition, PASS-PORT will enable you to create electronic portfolios that will contain your lesson plans and other valuable resources. These resources can be saved to a CD and taken to job interviews or used in your classroom.

The College of Education will also benefit from your use of PASS-PORT. Your work, combined with other students' work, enables professors to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the College's degree programs and make improvements. This extensive use of technology is highly valued by NCATE (the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education) and this technology experience will stay with you as you move on in your education career.

You begin by Logging in to PASS-PORT. You may receive tasks to Complete a questionnaire or to Read an alert from faculty members in the TASKS ASSIGNED TO ME section. You may also receive a Working Portfolio Template.

The ACCOUNT INFO tab will enable you to Change your password, Upload a picture, View your personal information, and enter a Resume or Biography. Your photo and resume will be included on the front page of your exported portfolio.

The ARTIFACTS tab will enable you to collect documents and information about activities. The Files section will allow you to collect documents such as lesson plans. The Professional Development section will allow you to record your attendance at workshops and service hours. The Field Experiences area will allow you to collect information about your experiences in schools. The Links section will allow you to collect links to the web pages you create.

Artifacts can be submitted for either Course Based Evaluation or Unit Based Evaluation.

The FOLIOS tab will enable you to create Portal Folios and Working Portfolios.

Portal Folios are the most important portfolios because they will be evaluated with the goal of moving you to the next portal transition point in your institution's College of Education .

You will Request Evaluation of your Portal Folio in order to be evaluated for progression through the portal transition point. Upon successful evaluation of your Portal Folio by faculty, you will progress to the next phase of your degree program. Ask your student services office in your College for more information about the specific requirements for each portal.

You will create Working Portfolios for your classes. Your PASS-PORT portfolios are similar to paper binders with tabs. They can be created in two ways. You may create your own Working Portfolio From Scratch or you may be asked to use a Working Portfolio Template created by a faculty member.

When you create a portfolio from scratch, Add a Tab to organize your documents and activities.

Once your tabs are created, you will write Tab Notes to describe the contents of each tab. You can then Add Your Artifacts. You must Add Standards to each artifact. You can view the standards which you have attached to artifacts in a portfolio by clicking on the View Standards button. You can also Enter a Reflection which relates the particular artifact to the standards which you have chosen. From the cover of your portfolio, you will write a Portfolio Note to describe the contents of the portfolio.

You may view the current version of your portfolio by clicking on the Preview and Apply Skins button on the cover of your portfolio. You will be able to view the artifacts, standards, and reflections that you have included in your portfolio. When your portfolio is complete, you may Request Evaluation or Request Feedback from a faculty member. The evaluation or feedback can be viewed by clicking on View Evaluation or View Feedback in your portfolio.

You can export your PASS-PORT portfolios to a CD for viewing outside of PASS-PORT by clicking on Export My Portfolios on the MY PASS-PORT tab. You can use this PASS-PORT CD as evidence of the knowledge and skills gained through your College of Education program.

You may also need to: Check your browser information or Email a bug report, comment, or question to the PASS-PORT Team .