Architecture Program Report Master of Architecture - Roger Williams ...

Evidence by Student is a link the student PORTS site, where all students are enabled to have
their own secure storage space, where they can create portfolios and resumes of their work. This
feature is open to the public as decided by each individual student.
CARS is organized through a shallow custom-designed web structure, which provides navigation
into the SAKAI Course Management system for each course, where the Course Syllabus, Course
Assignments and Course Matrix are collected.
• PORTS is the online Student Portfolio System offer the opportunity for each student to develop
a resume and online portfolios of their work, which they develop independently as cumulative
documents. PORTS also establishes a secure area for students to store their work-in-progress
while they study at RWU. Individual Student Portfolios are open to the public for viewing where
individual students allow access.
Information for the SAAHP CYCLES is organized on an annual basis. The School of Architecture, Art and
Historic Preservation CYCLES Self-Assessment System was presented to the ACSA Administrators
Conference in Washington, DC in November 2010, in person by Dean White, Roger Williams University
Instructional Design Staff. Then-Adjunct Faculty Member now Assistant Dean Gregory Laramie, 2 nd Year
Co-Coordinator David Corbin and an extensive team of students from the second year Architecture class
connected to the ACSA meeting via distance technology to present the work outlined above. SAAHP
CYCLES has also been presented at SAKAI conference in Los Angeles in Spring 2011, and is the subject
of an upcoming EDUCAUSE 2011 Conference session in Philadelphia October 19-21, 2011, which will be
jointly presented by the SAAHP Deans, faculty participants, students and Instructional Design staff.
Emerging Benefits of SAAHP CYCLES: PLANES, CARS, PORTS Self-Assessment Procedures include:
• Increased student performance based on:
o Students awareness of learning outcomes/professional expectations