TaskStream‘Tools of Engagement’ for Higher

Education

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Why Use TaskStream for Your Course?

• Does your course include in-class writings, out-of-class writing homework, or writing assignments for major assignments?

• Does your class encourage students to work as a group to complete in-class group work, out-of-class group work, or group work for a major assignments?

• Does your course require peer-reviewing, free-writing, drafts, and revision exercises?

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TaskStream for Your Course

• Allows the course to work in synchronous and asynchronous time

• Great management system for on ground, online, and blended courses

• Creates an e-portfolio system to collect writing assignments

• Enables peer-reviewing for writing assignments

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TaskStream for Teachers

• Role as authors, reviewers, and evaluators

• Ability to create reports

• Program Resources store course documents

• Evaluate using “Web Marker”

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TaskStream for Students

• Role as authors and reviewers

• View their grades and scored rubrics

• Program Resources display course documents

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Student Feedback from ENG 101

• The portfolio requirement helped me do my best work for the course.• Agree Strongly or Agree = 72%

• TaskStream facilitated my invention, revision, and reflection processes.• Agree Strongly or Agree = 63%

• The course encouraged me to think differently about how and why writing gets done.• Agree Strongly or Agree = 88%

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Other Benefits

• ENG 101 and 102 students have experience using TaskStream

• Renewable subscriptions for post-semester uses

• Develops and/or adds to the students and instructors’ technology skills

• Don’t have to use email or create group pages in Blackboard to share documents

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How Other Universities Use TaskStream

• Western Carolina University- Teacher Education Program

• Watson School of Education

• Western Governors University – Education Program

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E-Portfolio Resources

• What about E-portfolios? (YouTube video)

• Using Technology to Support Alternative Assessment and Electronic Portfolios (Dr. Helen Barrett)

• Example of Professional Portfolio using TaskStream

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Thinking About Using TaskStream?

• Read more from UIS IT department

• Go to TaskStream’s home page

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