Benefits of obtaining an institutional ePortfolio license

Although institutions can encourage students to sign up for a free CN account and build their ePortfolio, the following features and services will not be available to students and institutions under free accounts. The following features and services are only available to licensed institutions and their users:

Features

Features available to individual users of the licensed institutions:

• Upload large files up to 1GB/file. If a user is not a member of a licensed institution, they can only upload files up to 10MB/file.
• Upload files directly from Google Drive
• Record short videos on CN
• Use CN email features
• Get official 'verified' status, experiences and artifacts certified (added credibility/authentication)

Features available to institutions:

• Integration with LMS (Canvas, Moodle, D2L, etc.), Student Information System, and job portal (Simplicity, Handshake, etc.)
• Access to institution’s CN admin panel, which includes many admin features: user management, branding and customizations, institution-wide reports and analytics
• Award institution badges, certificates, and transcripts. This typically requires licensing a separate product with competitors. CN offers it as a component of the ePortfolio license
• Create institution-level Showcase templates, folders, and complete assessments on these artifacts
• Recommend skills and competencies to students
• Access to institution-wide networking opportunities and course-level social discussion features This typically requires licensing a separate product with competitors. CN offers it as a component of the ePortfolio license
• Receive an Institution Gateway Page (created per request) for branding, member login, and search portfolios based on skills and artifacts

Services

• User reports and institution requests receive higher priority in CN Helpdesk
• Receive earliest product updates
• Request free online training and custom-created user support materials from the CN team
• Attend CN Consortium meetings that are held every other month, exchange ideas with other CN licensees, give feedback to the CN development team, and participate in education technology collaboration through CN's R&D laboratory, IUPUI CyberLab
• Request CN to query any institution data if it is not already provided via the CN admin panel

If your institution has any questions regarding licensing CN, feel free to contact info@coursenetwokring.com.