Portfolio Project Planner
Plan a project you can finish, document, and explain in your portfolio.
- Outline
- 4 guided steps
- Practice
- 12 writing prompts
- Keep your work
- Save or download
Before you begin
Help a reader understand the problem, what you did, and what you learned. A class, club, volunteer, or personal project can work. Start by choosing a result you can finish and a clear way to explain your contribution.
Your working draft
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Save & downloadWork through one step at a time. Progress counts answered prompts, not the quality of your work. Save or download when you’re ready.
Step 1 of 4
Decide what you will make
Choose a problem connected to skills you want to practice. Name the audience, constraints, and a deliverable you can complete. If the project uses someone else's need, confirm what you have permission to create and share.
Step 2 of 4
Keep a record of your process
Decide how you will preserve meaningful stages, such as notes, sketches, calculations, drafts, decision logs, tests, or feedback. Capture enough to explain choices without exposing private data, licensed material, assessment answers, or confidential work.
Step 3 of 4
Decide how you will check the result
Choose checks that fit the project: completion against requirements, feedback from a permitted reviewer, an accessibility check, a working demonstration, or a comparison with a starting point. A learning result is valid when broader impact cannot be measured.
Step 4 of 4
Draft the project page
Write a concise overview, context, your role, process, outcome, and reflection. Credit collaborators and sources. Test every public link and image, explain specialized terms, and ask someone unfamiliar with the project what they think you did.
Use what you’ve written
Explain your project on your resume
Use your deliverable, decisions and verified outcomes to describe the work you personally completed. Draft a resume bullet
Read the complete worksheet
Decide what you will make
Choose a problem connected to skills you want to practice. Name the audience, constraints, and a deliverable you can complete. If the project uses someone else's need, confirm what you have permission to create and share.
- Problem and intended audience:
- Skill you want the project to demonstrate:
- Deliverable, constraints, and finish date:
Keep a record of your process
Decide how you will preserve meaningful stages, such as notes, sketches, calculations, drafts, decision logs, tests, or feedback. Capture enough to explain choices without exposing private data, licensed material, assessment answers, or confidential work.
- Three project stages worth documenting:
- Evidence you will save at each stage:
- Material that must stay private, be redacted, or be replaced:
Decide how you will check the result
Choose checks that fit the project: completion against requirements, feedback from a permitted reviewer, an accessibility check, a working demonstration, or a comparison with a starting point. A learning result is valid when broader impact cannot be measured.
- What will count as complete?
- How will you test or review the result?
- Which outcomes can you verify, and which will remain unknown?
Draft the project page
Write a concise overview, context, your role, process, outcome, and reflection. Credit collaborators and sources. Test every public link and image, explain specialized terms, and ask someone unfamiliar with the project what they think you did.
- One-sentence project summary:
- Key decision and the evidence behind it:
- What you learned or would change next time:
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An original InternshipDeadlines worksheet. These sources offer further guidance; their inclusion does not imply endorsement.