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Creating a well designed portfolio is a must. Use Digication to log in to Aportfolio and manage your ePortfolio. Alumni may sign in at appstate.digication.com.
About Digication
Digication is Appalachian State University’s ePortfolio platform. Our ePortfolio initiative began in 2014.
In the simplest of terms, an ePortfolio is an academic website where students collect and curate evidence of their learning for a professional audience, course, or program. The process of designing and creating an ePortfolio helps students articulate transferable skills, knowledge, and co-curricular learning. ePortfolios provide a place where students organize, represent, and contextualize their academic growth and the intersections with their professional aspirations.
ePortfolios are private within the context of our campus; however, as the student develops a comprehensive professional ePortfolio, they can request that their ePortfolio be made public and password-protected for secure and accessible sharing with audiences outside of Appalachian State. The ePortfolio also moves on with the student after graduation if they choose to take it with them.
Stats For Hiring Execs
Fulfilling the American Dream: Liberal Education and the Future of Work
Hiring managers value ePortfolios. Survey results show that more than 80% of hiring managers and business executives find ePortfolios useful when evaluating candidates, preferring them alongside a résumé and rating them as more useful than college transcripts alone.
College Transcripts
Usefulness of college transcripts in evaluating recent graduates’ potential to succeed.
| Group | Very useful | Fairly useful | Somewhat / not useful | Total useful |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Business executives | 11% | 40% | 49% | 51% |
| Hiring managers | 14% | 34% | 52% | 48% |
College Work ePortfolio
Usefulness of college work ePortfolios in evaluating recent graduates’ potential to succeed, in addition to résumés and transcripts.
| Group | Very useful | Fairly useful | Somewhat / not useful | Total useful |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Business executives | 32% | 46% | 22% | 78% |
| Hiring managers | 41% | 40% | 19% | 81% |
Total useful represents the combined percentage of “very useful” and “fairly useful” responses.
Source: Fulfilling the American Dream: Liberal Education and the Future of Work, 2018 Employers Survey (Hart Research Associates for AAC&U).
