DePaul advocates the use of ePortfolios to promote and represent reflective practices across learning in multiple professional, curricular, and co-curricular experiences.
Such reflective practices encourage learners to identify, articulate, and synthesize the strengths, values, beliefs, and skills that they bring into multiple contexts. Hence ePortfolios serve as a valuable tool in helping learners achieve all of the Pillars of Learning at DePaul, but particularly Pillar 5: Integration of Learning. In addition, ePortfolios encourage access to and experience with the mixed modalities of communication that are increasingly central to literate practices. Overall, ePortfolios, thoughtfully implemented, help DePaul University achieve its mission of developing “the full range of human capabilities and appreciation of higher education as a means to engage cultural, social, religious, and ethical values in service to others.”
Digication at DePaul: New and Classic
Digication is DePaul’s ePortfolio platform. At the beginning of the 2017-18 academic year, DePaul upgraded from “Classic” Digication to “New” Digication.
Support for New Digication
- The Get Help site provides step-by-step guides for creating an ePortfolio in Digication.
- Faculty can schedule in-class workshops on Digication through the University Center for Writing-based Learning.
- Faculty can make individual appointments with CTL instructional technology specialists.
- Students can make one-on-one appointments with tutors in the University Center for Writing-based Learning.
Support for Classic Digication
If a user created an ePortfolio prior to August 26 in Classic, the ePortfolio can continue to be updated in the Classic format as long as the web browser supports it. Digication support for Classic ended September 1, 2018.
For questions related to a Classic ePortfolio, see the Classic Digication Get Help Guide.