TaskStream’s, ‘Learning Achievement Tools’ provides a comprehensive toolset with proven support services to all levels of staff within teacher training faculties. TaskStream can be adapted and customised to achieve critical outcomes for individual tutors or departmental and organisational programmes. The tools are on-demand, secure and scalable; no installation of hardware or software is required; subscribers interact directly through the TaskStream servers over the Internet. Subscriptions are available at an affordable price, and because the tools are delivered through the Internet, rapid implementation at low cost is available.

What are the Learning Achievement Tools?

Competency Assessment and Reporting System: TaskStream’s Folio Assessment and the Collaborative Programme systems facilitate setting requirements, tracking of work, evaluation and review of submissions, archiving, and performance reporting across single or multiple programmes.

Web Publication: The TaskStream Web Folio Builder and the Web Page Builder provide powerful publication tools for creating electronic portfolios, personal development plans and web pages by staff and students.

Resource Management: The resource management areas allow subscribers to create online resource libraries for sharing files of any type with groups of colleagues. With TaskStream, instructional materials in a specific course or within a department or organisation-wide are only a click away.

Standards-based Instructional Design: The Unit and Lesson Builders, Standards Manager, and scoring matrix wizard facilitate the development of standards-based activities and marking grids which are fundamental to all courses. Students and staff are able to align, attach and evalutate work against any standards, i.e QTS, Every Child Matters and National Curriculum.

Acknowledging the distinct areas for portfolio usage within colleges and universities, TaskStream delivers three different types of folio tools - each of which offer the ability to provide guiding templates for students. The three folio types are as follows:

The Resource Folio - A Working Portfolio: Provides students with the opportunity to create and share a working portfolio or digital archive. To this resource folio, they can upload work created in professional development programmes, work experience, during fieldwork, extra-curricular activities, and so forth, organising these "artefacts" into online folders.

The Presentation Portfolio - A Showcase Portfolio: Provides users with the ability to create and share a flexible presentation portfolio for showcase, employment, applications or formative assessment. Personal Development Plans (PDPs) can be created and exported to PDF or CD-ROM, hosted on the internet or sent as an email attachment. 

The Directed Response Folio (DRF) - An Assessment Management System: Provides the faculty with an assessment management system in the form of a criteria and performance-based assessment folio. Faculty design the structure of the folio, including directions and guidance for students, and determines where and how assessment will take place. Typically, students have less choice in the types of work they include in this type of folio. Students can share sections of their DRFs for review (formative assessment) and submit individual sections for evaluation (summative assessment).