We want to highlight a recent development in Interfolio’s Dossier product, the academic portfolio software we’ve offered since 1999, that will support career development for scholars at institutions using our shared governance platform: institutional guidelines for review, promotion, and tenure. Continue reading “The scholar’s career online: Interfolio’s Dossier, and the benefits of educational portfolio software re-envisioned”

Today we’re rolling out the next bundle of improvements for individuals who are using Interfolio to collect and present their academic materials (including the ability to include images and videos)—both in our Dossier product for candidates and in our ByCommittee platform for institutions.  Continue reading “More tools for individual academic candidates: images and videos, bulk upload, and previewing”

The new collections feature in Interfolio’s Dossier enables you to build any number of standing lists of your materials for different purposes or aspects of your academic life. It’s an early step towards a new Dossier that will better support academic candidates’ ongoing needs throughout their careers. Continue reading “Introducing collections in Interfolio’s Dossier”

We’ve added a sleek notifications feature to all Interfolio user accounts! Whether you’re using your account to access ByCommittee Promotion & Tenure, ByCommittee Faculty Search, your personal Dossier account, or Letter Writer, now you’ve got a way to see exactly what’s awaiting your attention. Going hand in hand with notifications, we’ve also repainted the header and footer of your Interfolio account pages—making for a more unified look and feel.

Continue reading “Notifications in your Interfolio account (to go with the new look)”

If you’re a user of our Dossier service, you’ll notice a sleeker, simpler recommendation request page starting today. In response to ample user feedback and patterns observed across customer support conversations, we’re renovating our letter request features in a few key ways. It’s going to make the whole process easier.
Continue reading “Simpler, clearer recommendation requests (+ new document “Details” view!)”

We’re excited to roll out an updated appearance for our user account dashboard (the home page that displays when a user signs into their Interfolio account) and for our Dossier, Portfolio, and Letter Writer products. For the time being, the changes are only cosmeticall the same pages retain the same functionality they had beforebut they should make our platform easier and more consistent to navigate. Continue reading “User Account Dashboard Gets A New Look (and Dossier, Portfolio, Letter Writer Get A Paint Job)”

We’re proud to say we have (at last!) removed a well-known obstacle that sometimes slowed the submission of recommendations to Interfolio. From now on, when you send an Interfolio recommendation request via email, the letter writer will be able to submit their letter in a few simple clicks, without having to sign in or create an account. Along the way, this update taught us more about the balance between security and ease of use. See also: The Letter Writer’s Guide to Interfolio Continue reading “Submit recommendations without an account!”