摘要:Abstractportfolios have experienced growth and expansion due to importance of web technologies and the benefits that they have brought to teaching practices. In education, e-portfolios are mainly used to improve students’ learning processes and to support teachers’ assessment. In this sense and although there is a large number of tools that encourage the application of an educational e-portfolios, the use of these is relegated just to evaluation purposes. For this reason, this article aims to make a revision of points such as the foundations in which e-portfolios lay and the facilities that can make of them personalized tools with specific characteristics and focussed on different purposes.