| Developer(s) | Foliotek, Inc. |
|---|---|
| Written in | C# |
| Available in | English |
| Type | ePortfolio, Career portfolio |
| Website | foliotek.com (English) |
Foliotek is an electronic portfolio web application that supports Standards-Based Assessment, Career Portfolios, College and University Accreditation, and Faculty Tenure Review & Promotion. The system provides tools for both formative assessment and summative assessment.
Foliotek is written in an Agile software development environment where new features go live whenever testing is completed rather than being combined with many other features over a long period of time until a major release date is reached.
Foliotek is developed in Visual Studio using C#, Sql Server, JavaScript and jQuery.
Foliotek is typically purchased by institutions of higher learning, although the Career portfolio piece may be purchased by individuals as well.
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Foliotek provides students with an assessment portfolio, a scrapbook portfolio (file repository), and a presentation portfolio.[1]
Foliotek provides administrators with the ability to create their own portfolio structures, evaluations, scoring guides, forms, surveys, and standards. Administrators also have access to a wide-range of reports.
Foliotek, Inc. was founded in 1989 by Chris Miller in Columbia, Missouri as a provider of IT infrastructure and was originally named Lanit Consulting, Inc. In the late 1990s, the company began branching out into web applications. In 2006, the Missouri State High School Activities Association contracted with Foliotek to create their web application to support its business.[2] Foliotek continues to enhance and support their web application at this time.
Foliotek also provided and currently maintains the software solution for the Missouri Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence (a member of NCADV).
In 2001, Foliotek was contracted by the University of Missouri to develop a standards-based electronic portfolio system for three of their programs.[3] Since the needs of each program were so different, the software needed to be inherently configurable. Once completed, the configurability of the software made it suitable for other institutions as well. Thus, Foliotek became a software product rather than just a custom software application.
In 2006, Foliotek partnered with eCollege, now a division of Pearson PLC, to be the electronic portfolio solution for its family of colleges and universities.[4]
In 2010, Lanit Consulting, Inc. sold the networking portion of the business and took on the name of Foliotek, Inc. The networking business became Lanit Services, Inc.
Today, Foliotek is used by over 100 institutions of higher learning serving over 100,000 users.