The Via ePortfolio system allows students to create online portfolios to showcase their learning and share with employers. It also offers faculty more effective ways to develop courses, provide timely feedback to students, and engage students in the learning process while providing a means of collecting and assessing student work.
Students upload their work to Via and create ePortfolios, faculty evaluate student work and provide formative feedback, and the institution measures student achievement of key learning outcomes.
Via for Students
Logging in
- Go to vialivetext.com and log in using your myCI login.
- When you log in for the first time, you will be asked to accept the licensing agreement and then change your password.
- If you want to keep your usual myCI password, you can change your password back. Clicking your name in the top right corner, then select Settings. Select Password to change your password. Use the back button below the Via logo in the upper left to return to the home page.
How to Guides
- Group Member (Student) User Guide
Who is this Guide for? This guide is intended for Live Text via™ users who will act as group members. A group member participates in a group, which can include completing activities and assessing the work of peers. Often in the education field, a group is a course, a group member is a student. and a group owner is the instructor - How To: Submit Log Hours for Approval
Submitting Log Hours for Approval. Students can submit hours for approval in their internships. A student’s internship log displays their log entries, the total approved entries, and the total amount of entry time. Students can also export their log entries to CSV. - Group Member Navigation (Video)
- How To: Create a Timeline of Events (Video)
- How To: Create a Showcase (Video)
Via for Faculty
Logging in
- Go to vialivetext and log in using your myCI email address and your myCI email password.
How To Guides
- Group Owner (Instructor) User Guide
Who is this Guide for? This guide is intended for LiveText via™ users who will act as group owners. A group owner manages a group, which can include creating templates and activities, building rubrics for assessment, and completing assessments of group members. Often in the academic field, a group owner is the instructor of a course, group members are students, and a group is a course. This guide provides to group owners general information regarding navigation, various features and abilities, and common tasks. Additional user guides are available covering the setup or implementation of other advanced features.
- Overview (Video)
- How To: Creating Rubrics
This guide covers creating rubrics, tying rubrics to standards (such as ILOs or CIDA Standards), and copying rubrics. - How To: Auto Filling Rubrics
This guide covers the auto-fill feature, which provides the ability to automatically complete a rubric based on the scoring of the components of the Activity Template. - How To: Scoring [an Activity] Template
This guide uses the term “Template” to mean Activity Template. This guide covers how to add scoring to an Template and how to score student work submitted for an Activity created using that Template. - How To: Using the Document Viewer
This guide covers how to use the Document Viewer feature to view submitted files directly in Via (without having to open Word, Acrobat, or another application). - How To: Via Reports Guide
This guide covers reporting options for both instructors (Group Owners) and administrators. - How To: Create a Showcase (Video)
- How To: Create a Timeline of Events (Video)
Help and Support
Watermark provides support by email at support@watermarkinsights.com and by phone at 800-311-5656 on Monday-Thursday 5am-6pm, Friday 5am-4pm, and Sunday 2-7pm (Pacific).
Accreditation
View the School of Education’s current accreditation website and all applicable documentation.