Intern Placement Tracking (IPT) Instructions for Students

The Social Work Department utilizes an online system for exploring field placements, storing of student documents and completing field evaluations. Please follow the directions provided below for establishing a personal username and password, developing your student profile and searching for field placements. Your faculty liaison and field director have access to the information you provide. Please contact Jenny Becker at 319-273-7881 or if you have any questions.

Logging in:

  1. Go to
  2. Organization ID: unisw
  3. Default username will be provided to you by Jenny Becker, Field Director
  4. Password: ipt

Changing your password:

  1. Once logged in, you will be prompted to change your username and password. Please use your full name as your username. Example: Jane Doe
  2. Set a unique password that you will remember. If you forget, click on “Forgot your username or password” at the login screen and your default username will be emailed to you.

Homepage: From the homepage, you can access

  1. Student Detail (Hit save each time you update your page)
  2. Complete all your personal information
  3. Be sure to include as much information as you can on the CSWE Statistics link
  4. Emergency contact information can be parent contacts. We may use this information to contact you after graduation to follow up on alumni.
  5. Upload a picture of yourself
  6. Upload any other field documents you choose (this is optional at this time)
  7. View agency preferences (if uploaded...see 2.4 below)
  1. Agency List: contains all agencies available for your field experience
  2. Click on A-Z to produce a full list of approved agencies for field experiences (reference the agency list on Social Work Department website under “Field” for “Field Placements in State of Iowa” or if interested in the Cedar Valley area, “Field Sites by Interest Area and Program” to know which agencies offer Undergraduate, MSW Foundation, MSW TIC Block, MSW TIC Concurrent and MSW Social Administration internships)
  3. Click on an agency to see detailed information
  4. The agency detail screen allows you to view demographic information, contact information to for field placement, supervisor of the field experience, agency mission, population(s) served, programs, typical field days/hours and brief examples of the field experience.
  5. Put agency on your “preference” list, if desired
  1. Change password: allows you to modify your current password
  2. For assessments, your agency instructor will rate your social work skills and provide comments. It is recommended that your agency instructor completes the midterm and end evaluations with you as some skills may be addressed and observed during class, in which you can share with your agency instructor.
  3. Once your agency instructor, your faculty liaison and you meet for the midterm and end evaluation meetings AND all agree upon the results of the assessment, please click on your name to indicate your agreement with the assessment.
  4. Everyone clicks on their name to accept the evaluation results.
  5. No changes can be made to the evaluation once someone clicks on their name. Jenny Becker can clear the signatures if needed.

updated May 2015