TELT collaborated closely with Assessment team and relevant clinical and academic leads to analyse the needs of the program, and undertook a procurement process to purchase a clinical workplace-based assessment platform called risr/advance.

risr/advance is a web-based portfolio that is accessible to students from anywhere, at any time, using any device. Students can have bedside sign off from their clinical placement supervisors and have the feedback on their tasks documented in real-time. There are reflective components on every item encouraging students to develop introspective skills. The reflections require students to consider how they went with the task and what feedback they received from professional staff to improve their learning.

The TELT and Assessment team mapped the paper-based portfolio requirements into a more streamlined portfolio for both rural and urban students, ensuring the students would have a more equitable experience no matter where they undertook their placements.

risr/advance provides a student with a dashboard to track their progression against ‘goals’ which are a reflection of their mandatory portfolio items creating clarity for students across the portfolio. For the Assessment team, reports were built that can be refreshed and downloaded at anytime that give a better ‘real-time’ picture of where students are up to with their completed or incomplete items. Given the amount of information that can be extracted from the system about student progress, it has brought about constructive conversations with academics and assessment staff about how to identify student who need early intervention.