What is the AQIP Portfolio?
The AQIP Portfolio is an accreditation document in which Capella addresses 148 questions posed by AQIP to measure the University's quality. Evaluations are made across 9 accreditation criteria spanning a range of topics, such as curriculum, assessment, faculty, staff, information technology, library, financial aid, learner support and advising, enrollment services, marketing, facilities, communications, and leadership. All participating institutions submit an AQIP Portfolio every 4 years as well as during major AQIP accreditation events such as the Check-up Visit and Reaffirmation of Accreditation process.
What is an eFolio?
Capella University is one of the first institutions to meet AQIP's request to move to electronic portfolio (eFolio) submissions. The eFolio is a Web site providing text answers to the AQIP questions, as well as additional supporting material and tools such as "search" and "feedback" to enhance the AQIP reviewer and user experience. Capella University's eFolio uses the Institutional Electronic Portfolio template for AQIP Portfolios created by the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MnSCU).
eFolio highlights
The sample Web page at the right from Capella University's eFolio illustrates the overall format. The elements include a menu of the 9 AQIP criteria plus additional features in the left navigation bar, Capella's responses to the AQIP questions in the center column, and optional material for the reviewers in the right navigation bar. Optional material includes figures, data, and multimedia.
Capella University created 28 multimedia elements to address 2 needs: 1) to make Capella University "come alive" for the AQIP reviewers, as AQIP requested in its 2006 Check-up Visit to Capella and 2) to advance key Capella initiatives in which multimedia could help explain complex concepts or distribute key information to offsite audiences. For example, one key initiative for which the eFolio multimedia has been leveraged is the Learning Outcomes Transparency project that measures learner attainment of program learning outcomes.
