Teaching Tip: How to help students build professional online portfolios

October 21, 2016

Marissa Carl

Creating a professional online portfolio is something faculty mentors often suggest their students produce, but they may not necessarily know where to start themselves.

This week’s Teaching Tip has suggestions for what should be included, what platforms to use and examples by real students.

The professional online portfolio need not only be for students building identity in preparation for joining the workforce but could also be used as a crucial mechanism for attracting students to your program. On a basic level, it is a website hosted on a server that may or may not have a custom URL associated with it.

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--Teaching Tip by Jennifer Moss, an instructional designer and adjunct faculty at UAF with over 20 years of experience in academics and higher education. She is also a Google Apps for Education certified trainer.