PROVIDENCE – Educational software and services provider Digication Inc. wound up its first academic year by welcoming its 1,000th school, the Boston Community Leadership Academy in Brighton, Mass.

The BCLA began using the company’s e-Portfolio software last month, enabling students in four history classes to publish and archive their Senior Capstone projects on the Internet. The projects can be viewed at bcla.digication.com.

“We’ve understood the opportunity the Internet presented as a medium to learn and reflect, but learning to build a web page is a time consuming task,” James Liou, senior history teacher at BCLA, said in a statement yesterday. “With Digication, many students immediately said, ‘I can do this.’”

In the past, Liou added, “I would be left with a lot of exemplary work without a way to effectively archive and share it. But now, each student’s project can keep on living on the Internet for others to learn from and appreciate.”

Digication last month presented a plaque honoring BCLA as its 1,000th customer, and gave the school one year’s free use of the supplemental Admin Tool software. President Kelly Driscoll and CEO Jeffrey Yan visited the school to interact with teachers and see how students were using the software.

“When we launched Digication at the start of the school year, our handful of pilot project schools had shown the simple yet powerful approach to integrating technology in the classroom was effective,” said Yan. “But closing the academic year with widespread adoption by users at more than 1,000 schools exceeded even our loftiest expectations.”

The company’s Web 2.0-based Digication software includes e-Portfolio, which allows the creation, publication, revision, discussion and archiving of educational content, plus online learning community software. It is free for up to 1,000 users at any U.S.-accredited school.

A more advanced Admin Tool allows schools to customize their school’s online communities, import user data and course lists and control what users can do.

“Students and teachers are starved for effective technology that can motivate students and drive a more collaborative learning process,” Yan said. “By filling that need, Digication is now creating online learning communities at schools in nearly every state across the nation.”

The Rhode Island School of Design, Brown University, Bryant University, Hope High School, the Beacon Charter School and Smithfield High School are among the companies 40-odd local clients.

Digication Inc. is a provider of Web-based academic and social networking, administration tools and electronic portfolios to schools and alumni communities nationwide. To learn more, visit www.digication.com.