PASS-PORT is a web-based system that provides university students, faculty, and administrative staff a tool to gather, demonstrate, and evaluate the performance data on any student, including pre-service teachers. PASS-PORT provides students a tool for the creation of standards-based portfolios, a mechanism for sending and receiving feedback on portfolios, and portability of portfolios to other universities. PASS-PORT provides university faculty with a system to collect data, manage and evaluate student performance based on coursework, field experiences, and clinical practice. University faculty can use this data to improve their teaching, scholarship, and service.

PASS-PORT provides institutions with a mechanism to directly address a variety of accreditors’ and certifying agencies’ standards (such as NCATE, AACSB, ABET, SACS, and more) that require institutions to have a viable method of collecting and analyzing data on program qualifications, initial student and advanced graduate performance, and unit operations to evaluate and improve the unit and its programs. PASS-PORT was originally developed at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette with support from Xavier University of Louisiana as part of the Louisiana Governor’s IT Initiative. PASS-PORT is now made available to institutions throughout the country via a public/private partnership with Innovative Learning Assessment Technologies, LLC (ILAT).

The PASS-PORT systems are located in the managed collocation space at a tier-4 data center: Venyu. We utilize Venyu’s monitored firewall services to protect the servers and implement best security practices designed and configured by experts – on all of our systems. All user access is secured through a 128-bit SSL encrypted connection. When you log in, you’ll see the “lock” icon that ensures your information is safe. Additionally, all of your student and assessment data is stored on secure database servers that are not directly connected to the public internet.

We back up your data in multiple ways. Firstly, all student and faculty media – those files that they have uploaded as documentation or evidence – are backed up nightly to a robotic tape system with multiple terabytes of storage capacity. Additionally, all of the database information – which includes your PASS-PORT configuration, assessment data, and student records – is backed up twice daily to NTG’s DataVault encrypted backup service. This data is then, in turn, backed up to a second off-site location once a night, providing you with multi-tiered secure backups of your most precious information.

Yes! PASS-PORT is capable of supporting the assessment and reporting needs relating to several of the NCATE Unit Standards (specifically standards 2-5).

Yes! PASS-PORT allows you to assess for competencies related to SPA requirements simultaneously with your program and unit assessments.

Yes! PASS-PORT is capable of supporting assessment efforts that relate to all 3 categories of AACSB standards. Specific information on which standards are addressed and can be found on this page.

Yes! PASS-PORT is capable of supporting assessment efforts that relate to many of the standards for both NLNAC and CCNE. Specific information on which standards are addressed can be found on this page.

Yes! PASS-PORT Essentials is designed to provide a easy-to-use framework for the collection and analysis of campus-wide student learning outcomes, faculty development, and more.

Yes! We are a highly responsive vendor who has supported our clients’ rapid implementation needs in the past. With the appropriate level of responsiveness from the customer, we maintain the ability to implement a PASS-PORT system within 30 days. For example, during a pilot deployment to the University of Central Oklahoma in 2009, we were able to set up a PASS-PORT site and fully configure it to match their existing electronic portfolio system’s requirements in under a month. Based on the rapid results of that pilot, UCO ultimately chose to use PASS-PORT instead of their previous vendor.

Yes! Provisioned as Software-as-a-Service “in the cloud”, PASS-PORT requires very little support from the campus’ IT staff and infrastructure for day-to-day use. If users have web access to the internet, they’ll have access to PASS-PORT as well.

Yes! Throughout an implementation or any subsequent reconfiguration, clients have access to our implementation management services that are typically delivered by a designated agent within our organization. This agent will be available to you throughout business hours for all of your implementation, support, and training needs. Once your college is fully operational and comfortable using the features of PASS-PORT, we have staff available to answer questions that may arise after using the system and implementing some of the features in the classroom. For further support, we do offer consulting to our clients for a reasonable fee.

Yes! As you implement PASS-PORT in your college, you may find that you would like to have additional support through a site based visit. You will need to cover the expenses of the trip, but you will get to chose to have technical support and/or assessment implementation personal available to you. Additional trips may incur a consultation fee.

If you require extra help in creating some of the tools needed to be used in PASS-PORT, such as rubrics, questionnaires, or surveys, we can offer you more extensive customer support for a reasonable yearly fee. This enables you to have more access to our resources and assures you a more personalized use of PASS-PORT since we can align it your changing needs. Remember, you will always have instructions to do this yourself, but if you want to have technical staff to support you in the process we have that available to you.