Electronic Portfolios: The "electronic" version of the traditional (paper) portfolio attempts to stay as faithful to the intent of the original while enhancing it. The web-based E-Portfolio improves the portability of the system as well as the potential for interaction between students. The system also organizes the revision recording process and the standarization of the presentation format. Beyond this, the system offeers the students an opportunityy to step into the world of hyptertext and the World Wide Web.

For the instructor, the E-Portfolio relieves some of the burden of document management as well as access to student work. As part of an "Integrated" system (IECP), the E-portfolio also improves communication between the instructor and the outside evaluator. At the end of the process, the cumulative data (student work and instructor/evaluator communications) serves as a database for studying and improving the portfolio method even further.