Karuta Open Source Portfolio: a flexible architecture for assessment, accreditation and much more
Channel: Apereo Foundation
Date: 2014-06-02

The Open Source Portfolio(OSP) tools in the Sakai CLE are well known for their assessment matrices. Although these tools have served the community well, more flexibility, increased usability, improved customizability, and expanded reporting capabilities are required. Karuta, a new IMS-LTI ready open source portfolio software created in the spirit of OSP, provides highly customizable assessment portfolios. How does Karuta work? This presentation will provide an overview of the different components and technologies used (jQuery javascript library, Twitter Bootstrap, RestAPIs, MsSQL, XML). Karuta enrich the hierarchical structure of web pages with a comprehensive set of specialized resources and semantic tags. A designer can quickly construct very sophisticated workflows where different users (students, tutors, etc.) are assigned to a wide range of actions (reflect, upload files, comment, evaluate, etc.). This will be illustrated with practical use cases (assessment, accreditation).