Albion Environmental has recently been trialling ‘Learning Assistant’ which is an online portfolio platform. The software allows candidates and assessors to upload documents, communicate and set assignments and tasks. It also enables all Albion candidates who are undertaking the same WAMITAB or SQA award to communicate with each other to obtain peer group advice and ideas.
We have found that over the previous six months of using this system, it has worked very well and the feedback we have received from our candidates and assessors has been very encouraging. As a result of this positive feedback, we are now rolling the system out to all our new candidates which will also avoid the need for large paper based portfolios.