Question 1

What is Digication?

Accepted Answer

Digication is a student reflection and learning assessment platform for higher education, designed to improve student outcomes and institutional retention. Founded by educators Kelly Driscoll and Jeffrey Yan, Digication has supported colleges and universities for over 20 years. The platform guides students through conversational reflection aligned to learning outcomes and gives faculty and administrators assessment data, accreditation evidence, and early retention signals. Digication also includes ePortfolio capabilities and AI features grounded in the Taxonomy of Reflective Inquiry (TORI), all FERPA compliant and built with student privacy at the center.

Question 2

What is TORI?

Accepted Answer

TORI stands for the Taxonomy of Reflective Inquiry. It is the research foundation that powers Digication's AI features and learning insights. Developed from a synthesis of more than 90 fields of study, TORI organizes the many types, skills, and purposes of reflection into a cohesive framework built around 6 domains and over 60 distinct categories.

Every AI-powered interaction on the Digication platform draws on TORI's understanding of reflective practice and metacognition. Rather than generic AI prompts, Digication's tools are grounded in a rigorous, research-backed model of how people actually learn through reflection. This means the feedback students receive, the signals faculty see, and the insights administrators use for retention and outcomes work are all connected to a meaningful theory of learning, not just pattern matching.

For faculty, TORI also informs how AI can be configured at the assignment level. Instructors can enable specific AI capabilities tied to the type of reflection their course design calls for, making it possible to tailor the experience to a first-year seminar as precisely as a graduate capstone.

You can explore the full taxonomy at tori.digication.com.

Question 3

Does Digication offer ePortfolios?

Accepted Answer

ePortfolios are a capability within the Digication platform, alongside student reflection, learning outcomes assessment, accreditation reporting, and AI-powered insights. While Digication has historically been known as an ePortfolio platform, today it's a broader reflection and assessment platform focused on improving student learning, outcomes, and retention, with ePortfolios as one of several tools institutions can use.

Question 4

What learning management systems (LMS) does Digication integrate with?

Accepted Answer

Digication integrates with the major learning management systems used in higher education, including Blackboard Learn (including Blackboard Ultra), Instructure Canvas, D2L Brightspace, Moodle, and Sakai. All LMS integrations use the LTI 1.3 standard, the modern, secure protocol supported by every major LMS, which means institutions can deploy the integration quickly through their LMS admin tools.

Across all supported LMS platforms, the integration provides single sign-on between the LMS and Digication, optional auto-creation of new Digication users and courses, assignment connection from Digication to the LMS, course roster sync from the LMS to Digication, and grade sync from Digication back to the LMS.

Digication also integrates with student information systems (SIS) including Banner and PeopleSoft, and supports federated authentication through SAML 2.0, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, LDAP, Active Directory, and Shibboleth (including InCommon and eduGAIN federations). Setup documentation for each integration is available at https://www.digication.com/community/integrations.

Question 5

Does Digication integrate with Blackboard?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Digication integrates with Blackboard Learn (including Blackboard Ultra) using the LTI 1.3 standard. The integration enables single sign-on between Blackboard and Digication, optional auto-creation of new Digication users and courses, assignment connection from Digication to Blackboard, course roster sync from Blackboard to Digication, and grade sync from Digication back to Blackboard. Setup documentation is available at https://www.digication.com/community/integrations.

Question 6

Does Digication integrate with Canvas?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Digication integrates with Instructure Canvas using the LTI 1.3 standard. The integration enables single sign-on between Canvas and Digication, optional auto-creation of new Digication users and courses, assignment connection from Digication to Canvas, course roster sync from Canvas to Digication, and grade sync from Digication back to Canvas. Canvas administrators can deploy the integration through their institution's Canvas admin tools, and setup documentation is available at https://www.digication.com/community/integrations.

Question 7

Does Digication integrate with Brightspace?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Digication integrates with D2L Brightspace using the LTI 1.3 standard. The integration enables single sign-on between Brightspace and Digication, optional auto-creation of new Digication users and courses, assignment connection from Digication to Brightspace, course roster sync from Brightspace to Digication, and grade sync from Digication back to Brightspace. Setup documentation is available at https://www.digication.com/community/integrations.

Question 8

Is Digication accessible?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Digication is committed to making the platform usable for all learners. The platform includes keyboard navigation support, ARIA landmarks for screen readers, properly labeled form elements and images, and improved color contrast throughout the interface. Accessibility improvements are ongoing, and Digication releases regular updates to expand compliance with WCAG standards. The latest VPAT (Voluntary Product Accessibility Template) is available at https://trust.digication.com. Institutions with specific accessibility requirements are encouraged to contact Digication directly to discuss current compliance documentation.

Question 9

Is Digication FERPA compliant?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Digication is designed with student privacy as a foundational requirement. The platform supports FERPA and GDPR compliance through role-based access controls, encrypted data transmission, and secure API endpoints. Student data is never shared with third parties for advertising or commercial purposes. Privacy settings within portfolios give students and faculty control over who can view their work, from fully private to institution-only to public.

Question 10

Is Digication secure?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Digication takes a layered approach to data security. All data in transit is encrypted via TLS, and data at rest is encrypted using SHA-256. Servers and databases are hosted within an AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), protected by firewalls and network segmentation. Automated, off-site backups run nightly. Digication's full security documentation, including infrastructure details and compliance information, is available at https://trust.digication.com.

Question 11

How much does Digication cost?

Accepted Answer

Digication offers flexible pricing to fit different institutional contexts. Individual student access starts at $30 per year. For institutions, pricing is customized based on enrollment size and the specific features needed. Most institutions license Digication campus-wide, so students and faculty have access at no individual cost. To get a quote for your institution, visit https://www.digication.com/pricing or contact the Digication team directly.

Question 12

How does Digication support accreditation?

Accepted Answer

Digication was not built as a compliance reporting platform, and that distinction shapes everything about how it works. Other accreditation platforms are designed to document that assessment happened. Some do that well. But they're built around institutional reporting workflows, not around the student learning experience itself, and those are genuinely different design problems with different solutions.

Digication is built around a different premise: if students have the right tools to reflect meaningfully on their own learning, and faculty and programs have real-time visibility into how that learning is developing, the accreditation evidence doesn't need to be assembled after the fact. It's already there. Regional and national accreditors are increasingly asking not just whether outcomes were measured, but whether assessment is actively informing student success. That's the question Digication was designed to answer.

Institutions using Digication address two institutional priorities simultaneously: assessment and retention. Longitudinal learning evidence for accreditation is generated continuously through structured reflection. Engagement patterns that predict student persistence are surfaced from the same continuous data source.

What makes this approach particularly valuable right now is that it doesn't require separate platforms or separate data strategies for assessment and student success. The same structured reflective dialogue that builds longitudinal learning evidence for accreditation also surfaces the engagement patterns that predict student persistence, captured continuously throughout each course.

When students are regularly engaging in meaningful reflection, faculty and program leaders can see who is deepening their thinking, who may need support, and who is at risk of disengaging, while there is still time in the semester to make a difference. Assessment and student retention, powered by the same continuous data source. That's a fundamentally new capability, and it's available now. Contact Digication to see how it works in practice.

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