CEAP/Teacher Education Faculty and WCU Cooperating Teacher Subscriptions:
WCU teacher education faculty, cooperating teachers, and other College of Education and Allied Professions faculty are eligible for free TaskStream subscriptions. To request your free faculty subscription, please contact Renee Corbin via e-mail for a unique key-code that must be used as part of the subscription process.
Once you obtain your Key Code, please click here for step-by-step instructions on creating your TaskStream faculty account.
TaskStream Faculty Guides:
In addition to these guides, TaskStream maintains an extensive library of downloadable guides and manuals for TaskStream users. To access the help-guide index, follow these instructions:
- Login to TaskStream with your TaskStream username and password.
- Select "Help" from the left-hand menu.
- Select "Downloadable Guides" from the right-hand set of links on the "Help Home" page.
- Select a category of guides appropriate for your needs, then select a specific guide.
What is TaskStream?
TaskStream is
an Internet-based subscription software that students (candidates) can use to create, organize, and share reflective electronic portfolios that demonstrate learned and correlated competencies. Students can also submit work for review and evaluations, collaborate with peers, and receive feedback from instructors.
For faculty, TaskStream
supports the development of curriculum and learning activities, distribution of course materials, review student's work/tracking student progress, creating portfolio templates and assessing students' portfolios online, easily referencing state and national standards, and can be used to track student performance against state, national and professional program standards. TaskStream's reporting tools aggregate and disaggregate data to demonstrate programmatic success and support accreditation initiatives.
Faculty Roles Using TaskStream: As a CEAP faculty member, WCU teacher educator, or WCU cooperating teacher, using our key code for your subscription, you will be automatically granted permissions for the roles of reviewer and evaluator. The roles are defined as:
- Author – An author has the ability to create/edit a Direct Response Folio (DRF) for a specified program area. Faculty are not typically given the role of ‘author' so that final reporting data only includes student portfolios. Typically, TaskStream "authors" are students who create portfolios. We will assign author permissions to program directors to work with Ben in the development of program-specific DRFs.
- Reviewer – When a student submits a piece of their portfolio for review, they select from a list of reviewers within their program. As a faculty member, you will be listed as a reviewer for students enrolled in your program(s). It should be noted that the formative review process within TaskStream is optional; formative assessment and review can occur outside of TaskStream at the faculty member's discretion.
- Evaluator – The evaluator role allows you to evaluate students' work. When students are satisfied with the quality of the signature assignment identified for your class, program, or overall professional they will submit that assignment for evaluation within TaskStream. As a faculty member, you will be listed as an evaluator for students enrolled in your program(s).
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