The webfolio is an electronic version of the portfolio. The webfolio, though, is a collection of all of the scholar's work and it is available to more people than the hard copy of the portfolio. By digitizing the work we can make it more available to more people than we can with the printed version. The webfolio, if started early can be a record, of the scholar's development over a lifetime, let us say starting as early as elementary school. So as teachers get new students, the teacher can peruse the scholar's webfolio to determine instruction.
Employers can gain valuable insight about a future employee through a webfolio.
Since the webfolio is accessible to all on the web, then parents, relatives, peers, other teachers, administrators, pre-service teachers, employers, college and graduate school admissions, and anyone else can make an authentic assessment of said scholar. Once the webfolio has been begun and the work is public, the process of peer review , the second tenet of scholarship can begin. Developing good peer review skills is taught in the class and the scholars learn about the use of rubrics. As the work is created, rubrics are designed so the writer and the reader are aware of the criteria of each assignment. The rubric becomes the criteria by which the scholar created the work and it must therefore be the criteria by which the reader assesses it.