We have been using Google Drive the last 2 or 3 years. A Google Sheet is created for each student intern that is accessible to the Field Liaison, the student, and the student's Field Instructor (site supervisor). The Sheet has multiple tabs - a "landing page" with everyone's information on it, the Learning Contract (which has a mid-term and final evaluation built in it), then month 1 time sheet (which automatically sums up the student's hours weekly and monthly), and then a tab for month 1 supervision logs. There are signature lines for each supervision log, e.g., and "electronic" signature is added (like a jpeg copy of the person's signature).
These have been okay to use. The main issue is securing Google Drive, which isn't very secure.
We're going to try IPT this fall (we raise funds by hosting CEU events). It's not ideal, but with only about 50 students per year in field, we can't justify spending $10,000 or more a year on software.
Good luck!
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Angela Wood
Asst. Professor/Field Director
Southeastern Louisiana University
Hammond LA
985-549-2309
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Original Message:
Sent: May 13, 2025 23:24
From: Brian Anderson
Subject: Field Education Platform
For approximately 5 years, our BSW and MSW Field Education programs have used Tevera as the field management platform. Recently, we have started to explore creative ways or platforms internally within our School of Social Work that can serve as our field management system moving forward.
If your field education program uses platforms such as Google Doc, Canvas, Google Forms, Microsoft Forms, if you would, please share the concept. Thank you.
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Brian Anderson
Professor of Social Work
Jackson State University
Jackson MS
601-979-0509
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