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The links below go to the home pages of a wide variety of student eportfolio system websites. Some of these, in addition to having an eportfolio for archiving multi-faceted artifacts, are also assessment management systems that have functions and features that demonstrate student learning through the use of rubrics and assessments, often tied to educational standards, along with having data gathering and reporting functions that are typically utilized for accreditation reporting purposes and/or continuous improvement at the course, program and institutional levels. Other eportfolio systems listed here are basically career and show-case oriented, utilized primarily for career advancement purposes. At the end of this list is a brief section on institutional eportfolios, which are totally different from student eportfolio systems.

There are many more eportfolio websites. Some, which are not listed here, only have a login interface as their home page and require username and password authentication prior to seeing their content.
 

Student Eportfolios:

Alverno College: The Diagnostic Digital Portfolio
This web-based system is in the eighth year of implementation at Alverno College. The DDP enables Alverno students to follow their learning progress throughout their years of study. It helps students process the feedback they receive from faculty, external assessors and peers. It also enables them to look for patterns in their academic work so they can take more control of their own development and become more autonomous learners.

Apple Learning Exchange
This site has an example of a high school fine arts lesson idea in which students create an ePortfolio. It is noted that an electronic portfolio is a compact representation of their work that is easily accessed and can be enhanced with the use of sound, music, images, and video.

Baldwin-Wallace "Be That"
Students store their "action plans" inside a B-W e-Portfolio — an online space for storing academic goals, future plans and reports.

Bowling Green State University
BGSU adopted the Epsilen electronic portfolio software in 2003, and now hosts over 22,000 portfolio accounts.

California Lutheran University School of Education Webfolio
Students demonstrate mastery of program and course standards or competencies by building an organized collection of multimedia artifacts that are the result of assignments and activities.

Concordia University’s Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance (CSLP)
The CSLP-LEARN's ePEARL software is designed for use in French and English classrooms within Canadian elementary and secondary schools. The design of the software is the result of a collaboration with the LEARN-RECIT, school board administrators, teachers, and students. The aim of this project is to combine research evidence on portfolio use with practical feedback from the field, in an attempt to develop easy to use, powerful software designed to support key processes related to self regulated learning.

Connecticut Distance Learning Consortium: ePortfolio.org
A student-centered platform augmented by a Project Builder and an Assessment module. Students can create and customize portfolios for academic, career, or personal uses; maintain their plan of study; and share their work, goals, and achievements with advisors, career counselors, and employers. Faculty, departments, and institutions can create portfolio assignments linked to scoring rubrics. Assessment committees can randomly select portfolios, score them with rubrics, and generate assessment reports.

eFolio Minnesota
A multimedia electronic portfolio designed to people create a living showcase of their education, career and personal achievements. All Minnesota residents, including students enrolled in Minnesota schools, educators and others can use eFolio Minnesota.

ePortfolios at UBC
UBC launched a campus-wide e-portfolio pilot project, titled Campus-Wide Online Environment for e-Portfolios, in September 2003. The project spanned three years and involved a diverse group of students, instructors and staff from across the campus. In total, 12 projects, 2000 students, 91 instructors, and 37 staff (central & department/faculty) participated in the project. Individuals from each user group played a variety of roles in the project, ranging from students hired to support other students creating e-portfolios to instructors introducing them in the classroom to staff in departmental instructional support and central units supporting the associated technologies.

Florida State University Career Portfolio
Prepares students for the world of work through planning, reflection, skill development, and portfolio documentation.

Johns Hopkins Digital Portfolio
A Web-based assessment and presentation application that allows users to demonstrate their capabilities and achievements in relation to a pre-determined set of principles or standards.

LaGuardia Community College
Students create websites that represent their educational goals and achievements.

New York City College of Technology
"City Tech" enables students to create professional websites that will contain a number of their academic examples and learning experiences. The project supports the integration of technology into the curriculum using a unique teaching and learning strategy.

Otis College of Art and Design
OSpace, E-Portfolios and Learning Management System.

Penn State University ePortfolio
Penn State University's Information Technology Services provides every Penn State student, regardless of program or campus location, with the resources necessary to create an ePortfolio. Every student is allocated up to 1 GB of online storage space. Students can apply for a web folder within this storage space. This is offered at no charge by ITS. Digital files copied into this web folder are accessible by any internet web browser.

Rhode Island School of Design
A Learning Community for Teachers and Students.

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology RosE Portfolio
An online, digital system designed to allow students, faculty, and administrators to archive, assess, and evaluate student work for the purpose of class, department, program, and institutional assessment. In addition, the RosE Portfolio offers features like the Showcase Resume, the Curriculum Map, and customizable Assessment Outlines.

Spellman College Writing Center
The Spelman College Electronic Portfolio Project (SpEl.Folio) develops students' ability to think critically about the connections among their intellectual, professional, and personal lives. Each student creates a dynamic web-based composition representing her diverse goals, achievements, and reflections. In this way, students construct and demonstrate their development as lifelong learners.

St. Olaf College Center for Integrative Studies - Web Portfolios: Enhancing the Coherence of Students' Careers These Web Portfolios are an important mechanism for discovering and demonstrating the principle of coherence behind each student's major.

University of Central Florida
UCF College of Education eportfolio-support website.

University of North Carolina Wilmington, Watson School of Education Foundations Portfolio
Requires that all students enrolled in a variety of Education courses maintain an active eportfolio account.

University of Denver: Personal Portfolios, Community Portfolios and Course Portfolios
The University of Denver Portfolio Community (DUPC) is a fully developed web-based application that supports the academic community with a searchable database of electronic portfolios for students, faculty, staff, and alumni, community discussion, academic program assessment based on student work, and an assessment rubric library.

University of Minnesota Electronic Portfolio
A secure web site at the University of Minnesota (U of M) for entering, saving, organizing, viewing, and selectively sharing personal educational records. Introduced by the University of Minnesota Duluth in 1995 and built by the U of M Enterprise Web Development Team, Portfolio is now an open-source platform freely available at http://www.osportfolio.org for download.

University of Washington, Learning and Scholarly Technologies: Catalyst Web Tools
A set of Web-based communication and collaboration applications designed for use in teaching, learning, research, and everyday work.

Institutional Eportfolios:

These are totally different animals in comparison to student eportfolios.  Institutional eportfolios are typically public  repositories of information posted online to highlight an institution's mission, goals, strategies and achievements.    

California State University, Sacramento
The purpose of this portfolio is to present the processes and documents that demonstrate CSU, Sacramento's commitment to "Create a Culture of Learning." The context and structure of this portfolio are in direct response to the needs of specific internal and external organizations and individuals who are interested in the University's efforts to demonstrate its educational effectiveness.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Demonstrates to a wide range of people and communities that IUPUI is not only achieving its mission but has strategies, policies, and procedures in place to continue improving its level of achievement. In that sense, this portfolio involves more than collection and selection of its contents; it also includes reflection and evaluation, with a view to assuring quality in the three major themes of the campus goals for IUPUI: effective student learning, excellent research and scholarship, and exemplary civic engagement.

Oral Roberts University
2007 CHEA award-winning university-wide eportfolio assessment system.

Portland State University
The PSU Portfolio describes how PSU is meeting its mission to "enhance the intellectual, social, cultural, and economic qualities of urban life."

Texas Woman's University
An Academic Institutional Effectiveness Reporting system published by the Office of Institutional Effectiveness and Research.

University of Nebraska at Omaha - MyMapp: Mapping Academic Performance through ePortfolios
An integrated ePortfolio system that provides comprehensive documentation of the institution's continuous progress toward strategic objectives and learning standards.

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