Who here has an e-learning portfolio?

I had a really nice one within my community profile section before Articulate updated it's website last year. Sad that area of the website is gone. It just disappeared.

I have a section of my website for my instructional design and e-learning projects. It doesn't include everything, but it's more of a highlight gallery. For some of my projects, I include a write-up of my instructional design process. I like backward design, so I start with the learning objectives and then build activities to support those. I really enjoy working with Rise 360 and Storyline 360. Here is a link: Heather Saigo's instructional design portfolio. It's pretty simple, but I love learning and iterating, and sharing is part of improving my skills. :-) I appreciate this community!

I'd love to have one, but unless you work independently and have legal contracts in place, and only produce examples using your own private license, all content you produce remains the IP of the company you are working for, and as such, remains their property. Unless you get specific permission, you could be in a LOT of legal trouble because technically you're stealing their IP. 

The other issue is how to get it from the company server to your own computer. I've developed some great content over the years, but because the SL360 file is so large, I can't email it to myself. Given that I've produced content for very large companies (ie international), their cybersecurity is very strict, which means I would not be able to email myself large files nor would I be able to use USB thumb drives. 

However, I've managed to send myself the odd smaller ones in a sly manner. 

Does anyone know of any free sites we could upload examples of our work so that we could send potential employers to ?

Try Google Sites for a free, but limited layout, with picture hyperlinks to some projects in Review.

Work in progress. 

https://paedagogus.org/nch/

I don't like to pay for services if I don't have to, so this is a Wordpress site on a virtual private sever. The server is subscribed through IONOS, but only costs about $20/month including the domain name.

I like maintaining my own server space because I can use it for no additional cost limited website hosting, testing, and installing any other open source or free services I might like to host. In addition to WordPress, I use it for Kimai time tracking, Moodle LMS, Veracity Lite LRS, MySQL, Omeka Classic, and the Adapt Authoring Tool.

I think the cost is worth it and I don't worry about the sites or services suddenly vanishing.

   Resumes don't offer a glimpse into your creativity, and most of the work we do is behind closed LMS doors. Having that portfolio and the ability to display what you are capable of is something you need. Even if you don't need a portfolio, it's a fun challenge, and something you can say you've accomplished. 
     Here is a link to my portfolio Ira Siegel I created based on a post I found by Trina Ghosh entitled "How to build your Portfolio Website using AWS: A Beginner’s Guide to building a website using Amazon S3 & Route53" which can be found here: How to build your Portfolio Website using AWS | by Trina Ghosh | Medium

   Learning to create a portfolio was a very fulfilling task for me, I learned quite a bit and got to dust off a few skills I hadn't used in a while. There are free templates out there, cost is minimal (about $1 a month) so have no fear if you don't know HTML or CSS either! I think it took me more time to come up with a domain name I liked and what to put in the portfolio then to build the actual site. Plus, in doing it myself, I don't have to rely on or pay anyone to do updates. 

I think Amazon still offers a year for free too, so there's no risk in giving it a shot using the steps outlined in Trina's article (I think there are videos out there now too).

Do it, have fun with it and good luck!!

Noele_Flowers​ - I am starting to build portfolio but not sure what kind of videos or projects can I start to work on. I can't use ones I create for my organization. Any thoughts or ideas on topics that I can start with? 

I don't want to spend on website space. Also, how and where do I bundle up the courses that I will build? 

Any tips on what sort of stuff and how much to put in for the purposes of job seeking? I think too many examples might be off-putting and full courses, if they are 15 mins or over (which they mostly are) may be off-putting too. Is it best just to show some best bits? Anyone got any ideas on what works well please?

For anyone who isn't allowed to share projects that they created for clients, I would recommend trying to create meaningful alternatives that target the industries or clients you want to attract.

For example, most of the portfolio that Shahidyakoob​ and I have created is aimed at the medical, healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors, as that is where most of our work comes from.

Having examples that are relevant to clients that we want to work with means that when they look at our work, they can see straight away what we would do with their content. It removes one layer of risk for them as we've already demonstrated an understanding of their industry. 

If you're a developer but you don't have any instructional design skills, try collaborating with an ID who doesn't use Storyline. You'll both come away much more structured demos that you can share with potential clients than you would if you were halted by your potential limitations. 

If you work in Rise and Storyline, build an example using each tool so you can demonstrate your abilities in both.