Table 3.

Criteria checklist for the evaluation of ePortfolio Software from Himpsl and Baumgarten [13]

	Availability
Essential criteria
Input of keywords	Yes
Internal cross-references	Yes
External cross-references	Yes
Publication in the web	Yes
Pricing and license schemes	Not applicable
Simple data export	Yes
Support of all currently used A-grade browsers	Yes
Collecting, organizing, selecting
Simple data import	Yes
Comfortable data import	Yes
Searching, sequencing and filtering	Yes
Annotations to files	Yes
Aggregating (integration of external data via feeds)	Yes
Version control of files	Yes
Reflecting, testing, verifying and planning
Guidelines for reflection	No, but could be built-in
Guidelines for competences	No, but could be built-in
Guidelines for evaluation (self-assessment, assessment by others)	No, but could be built-in
Guidelines for goals, personal development and career management	No, but could be built-in
Guidelines for Feedback (advice, tutoring, mentoring)	No, but could be built-in
Representing and publishing
Access control by users (owner, peers, authority, public)	Yes
Adaptation of the display: layout (flexible placing, boilerplates)	Yes
Adaptation of the display: colours, fonts, design	Yes
Publishing of several portfolios, or alternatively, various views	No
Administrating, implementing, adapting
Development potential of the provider, company profile	Yes
Enabling technologies (programming language, operating system, …)	Yes
Authentication and user administration (backed-up interfaces, …)	Yes
E-Learning-standards	Yes
Migration/storage/export	Yes
Usability
User interface	Yes
Syndicating (choice of feeds for the individual portfolio)	Yes
Availability, accessibility	Yes
Navigation/initial training/help	Online help
External and internal information function	No
Interchangeable, adaptable user-defined boilerplates	No, but could be built-in
Personal storage, respectively export function	Yes