CSUN holds challenges for students to show off their best work. Challenges are created with a theme such as Art, Volunteer Work, or Academic Success to best showcase a variety of CSUN talent. View the Challenges and Prizes page for more information and to view rules and guidelines.  

1. Showcase your work. Use Portfolium to show off your best work to future employers. Bring your resume to life with photos and videos of projects you've done in class or on the job. 
2. Connect with your fellow Matadors. Network with CSUN students and alumni to share ideas, collaborate and be inspired. Join a vibrant, online Matador community.
3. Network with 3,000+ companies. Apply directly to job openings with Disney, Nike, Google, NBC, Apple and more. For a full list of companies, visit https://portfolium.com/companies.

• Work Accomplishments - Professional (e.g. resume, thank you notes, letters of recommendation, list of professional references) View examples of work accomplishments.
• Education and Training (e.g. training you've attended, certifications, workshops) View examples of education and training. 
• Activities and Volunteer Work (e.g. non-profit, charity and volunteer work, photos from events you've coordinated) View examples of activities and volunteer work.
• Personal - Interests (e.g. special training or independent self-taught learning, learning a new skill or foreign language) View examples.
• View complete list of examples on the Portfolium website 

Getting Started

Portfolium is also available to all faculty and staff. To access Portfolium, visit https://csun.portfolium.com/ and log in with your CSUN user ID and password. You will be asked a few questions to customize your account.

Read more about ideas for faculty on how to use Portfolium to encourage student learning. 

Encouraging Student Use

Helping students create their Portfolium presence can be a powerful way to link students’ academic work to real world outcomes. Faculty and staff can play a key role in helping students translate what they learned at CSUN to viable job opportunities and professional advancement that will last a lifetime. New and creative uses of Portfolium for students, coursework and capstone projects are already being developed by innovative faculty at CSUN. 

By providing guidance and feedback on their entries, faculty use this as another avenue to help students learn more deeply and develop a wide variety of skills. Students can develop:

• Deeper Learning through Reflection: Incorporate new reflective activities into your assignments to promote deeper learning. Encourage student metacognition by having students evaluate their own work and reflect on what is being learned.

• Writing and Presentation Skills: Preparing entries requires students to hone their writing skills to convey their message in concise, clear language and imagery. Students can control the visibility of their entries so they can share only within the classroom or with the world.

Faculty should share their ideas and success stories with the Faculty Technology Center so we can share back with our faculty community.