Online or ePortfolios are getting more and more popular in Higher Education as assessments tools (see, for example, Chang et al., 2014). But, how do you implement this? LiveText is our 'official' portfolio system, but that forces students into an expensive commercial (and proprietary) system.
There are many options for creating a free and public web presence (Wordpress, Weebly, Google Sites, etc.) and share whatever you want with the rest of the world, including academic materials. I personally like the combination of Google Blogger and Google Drive: students use Google Blogger as their ePortfolio and link to files, content, and media stored on their Google Drive.
Here's a simple tutorial I created for our students - feel free to use and edit it as you like.
I am not happy that we adopted the system that had an expense attached (indeed, I recommended that we examine open source options). However, I will point out that students need not use the proprietary portions of the system.
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