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Medical Portfolio Improvements for ILIAS 8

This is a project page that bundles several feature wiki pages which belong to a larger development activity for the ILIAS component Portfolio.


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1 Aim of Project

Universities offering curricula for medical or teaching professions employ electronic portfolios as an important didactic tool to facilitate their professional development. Portfolios are specifically used to reach out to learning experiences outside the university context. 

• Single-purpose tools like Mahara or Scorion^TM offer great usability and bespoke functionality. Students enjoy this.
• The ILIAS Portfolio is part and parcel of a comprehensive software product. Administrators enjoy this. 

This project aims at making portfolios more intuitive and userfriendly, extending bespoke portfolio functionalities. We will focus on identifying the success factors for implementation of study-related eportfolios in various academic fields.

To reach the above mentioned goals, we suggest following strategies:

• Pushing automation - instead of personally creating and filling in a portfolio, for each user of a certain global role a portfolio is automatically derived from a template  upon frist login, which accompanies him throughout the studies. 
• Structured layout for portfolio-page or blog - while adding new portfolio-pages or blogs users should get a well-structed and intuitive to use templates (e.g. forms) in order to be able to focus on the content, not on the layout of the page. 

2 Involved Maintainers and Stakeholders

• Medical Faculty / University of Freiburg medical ePortfolio Contact elearning.medizinstudium@uniklinik-freiburg.de 
• Maintainer Killing, Alexander [alex] leifos GmbH

3 Timeline

ILIAS 8 (Spring 2022)

Portfolio Page Elements, Emphasis on Content

4 Related Feature Requests and Status

4.1 Portfolio Features

Feature Request	Suggested by	Funding	Planned Release	Status
Create Portfolio from Template and for Global Roles	Uni Freiburg	Uni Freiburg	ILIAS 8	Published in Trunk

4.2 Portfoliotemplate Features

Feature Request	Suggested by	Funding	Planned Release	Patch needed	Status
Embed Metadata in Portfolios	Uni Freiburg	Uni Freiburg	ILIAS 8	Patch for 7	Published in Trunk
Protected Sections in Portfolios from Portfolio Templates	Uni Freiburg	Uni Freiburg	ILIAS 8	Patch for 7	Published in Trunk

4.3 Assignment Type Portfolio

Feature Request	Suggested by	Funding	Planned Release	Patch needed	Status
Output Formats of Submissions	Uni Freiburg	Uni Freiburg	ILIAS 8	Patch ILIAS 7	Published in Trunk

4.4 Competence Management

Feature Request	Suggested by	Funding	Planned Release	Patch needed	Status
Link in competence records directs to competence results tab	Uni Freiburg	Uni Freiburg	ILIAS 8	Patch ILIAS 7
Permalink to competence tab	Uni Freiburg	Uni Freiburg	ILIAS 7		Published in trunk

4.5 Survey 

Feature Request	Suggested by	Funding	Planned Release	Patch needed	Status
New Survey Mode: Individual Feedback	Uni Freiburg	Uni Freiburg	ILIAS 8	Patch ILIAS 7
Permalink to competence tab	Uni Freiburg	Uni Freiburg	ILIAS 7		Published in trunk

5 General Discussion

Please discuss specific questions of feature requests on the related feature wiki pages. This discussion section is only for a general discussion of the project and its realisation.

07.12.2020: Statement by TB: We would like to see the feature go live for the next release. We highly encourage stakeholders to push the project. The technical impact outside of portfolios might be somewhat limited, we therefore do not set a special priority to this project.