This week you will create an e-portfolio that will assist with showcasing all of the projects you have completed in our course along with other artifacts, photos, and resources you may want to include. E-portfolios are excellent tools for showcasing to potential employers your skills, educational and work experience, accomplishment and publications, talents, and professional credentials.

While there are many open source and subscription e-portfolio resources online, APUS provides an e-portfolio to all active students and faculty.

Portfolio, our digital portfolio resource is designed to assist with your review, planning, and career readiness steps. This resource can be accessed by looking for the Portfolio section, within the Course Tools area of our course. If additional resources are required for the development of your e-portfolio, please contact your instructor and please feel free to utilize the internet, which has a wealth of YouTube videos, Web-based resources, and examples you can access for ideas. This is a project for you to showcase not only your skills, talents, and capabilities, but your academic history and creative skills. An important element of this project is the creativity that you pour into this e-portfolio.

This last week's assignment, creating an e-portfolio, should be a lot of fun. However, there is no set way to "accessorize" your e-portfolio, it is left up to your creativity and how you want to "brand" yourself. However, the only mandated content for your e-portfolio are the seven projects you created during the last six weeks. How and where you insert and introduce these projects is up to you. It is expected that you will "personalize" this e-portfolio with additional information, photos, artifacts showcasing your experience, certifications, qualifications, and personal interest content.

If appropriate and desired, please feel free to include any corrections you have made with your previous assignments prior to inserting them in the e-portfolio. The majority of your grade will be based on the professional look of your e-portfolio, the creativity you have put into the content, the inclusion of important additional artifacts that showcase your skills and experiences, your use of photos, and narration you have inserted to "personalize" your interests, ambitions, personal goals, etc.

There is really no correct method for completing this project, however, here is one way that may get you started until your own creative juices kick in:

• As you continue with these Portfolio steps, please feel free to go back over each of the 7 projects you completed in weeks 1 through 6 and make sure you have included any pertinent updates or changes of interest.
• Do some research regarding best practices for authoring your e-portfolio.
• Do some more research at other online resources you may find.
• Add any additional resources, assets, or exemplars of your work.
• If desired, dress the site up with any photos, narrative, or additional artifacts you want to use to represent who you are.
• Then, complete all of your uploads and submissions to the Portfolio site in our course.
• Please provide a sample of your work in the assignment area of your course, which will inform the instructor that you have completed this step as well. Your sample work can be combined into a MS Word document or PDF.