The 30-Day Rise Sprint
Develop a Portfolio Sample in Rise That Impresses Hiring Managers
A focused 5-week sprint to develop a portfolio sample in Articulate Rise, one of the most-requested authoring tools on ID job postings. No software purchase. Real feedback from experienced IDs so what you create looks like an experienced ID made it, not someone new to the field. No advanced tech background required.
- A portfolio sample in Rise, vetted by experienced IDs to actually impress hiring managers
- A finished piece that doesn't read as beginner work to a trained eye
- ID Fundamentals: content mapping, learning objectives, audience analysis, assessment design
- Hands-on experience with one of the most-requested authoring tools in ID job postings
- In-demand AI skills you can put on your resume
- Expert feedback on your sample with back-and-forth revisions until it wins our stamp of approval
The doors close when the cohort fills • Starts July 1
You want a portfolio sample. You don't want to spend $1,400 and three months to get one.
Maybe you've looked at my other programs and the math didn't work. Twenty-five hours a week, plus $1,400 for the Articulate software just to develop one sample. That's a lot to swallow when you're not even fully sure ID is the move yet.
Or the timeline didn't fit your real life. You've got a vacation you've been planning since January. Kids home from school. Maybe a summer job. Family stuff that doesn't pause for a 25-hour-a-week program. The idea of committing that much, that consistently, felt like setting yourself up to fall behind by Week 3 and feel terrible about it.
The 30-Day Rise Sprint was built for this exact gap. Smaller scope. No software cost. Smaller time commitment (10-15 hours a week, with room for the vacation). Real support. Real outcome. Let me walk you through it.
"The fastest path to a portfolio sample that gets you interviews is the one with structure, real feedback, and a time commitment you can actually keep. Not another program you start and don't finish."
Why not just learn Rise on YouTube?
Rise isn't that complicated. There are plenty of free YouTube tutorials. Why pay for a sprint? Here's the honest difference, and why it matters when a hiring manager is looking at your portfolio.
You learn the buttons. Then what?
You watch the videos, click around in Rise, and walk away with software knowledge in your head. Nothing in your portfolio. No one telling you whether what you developed is any good.
- No tangible portfolio piece, just YouTube history
- No one reviewing your sample for hiring-manager-readiness
- No accountability when life gets in the way
- No coaching when you get stuck on a real design decision
- You won't know what newbie mistakes are showing in your work because no one's telling you
You develop something real. Vetted.
You finish with an actual portfolio sample, reviewed by experienced IDs, that reads as professional, not beginner-made.
- A polished Rise sample (the thing YouTube alone can't give you)
- Expert feedback on your draft so newbie mistakes get caught
- 2 weekly coaching calls to keep you moving when stuck
- A finished piece a hiring manager actually wants to see
What You Walk Away With
A Rise Sample That Impresses, Not One That Reads as Beginner
A polished sample developed in Articulate Rise, vetted by experienced IDs so it looks like an experienced ID made it. You can publish it, link it in your resume, and walk through it in interviews with confidence.
ID Fundamentals
Content mapping, audience analysis, learning objectives, assessment design. The thinking work that separates samples that get interviews from samples that don't.
Rise Skills That Employers Want
Hands-on experience with Articulate Rise, one of the most-requested authoring tools on ID job postings. You can speak to it in interviews because you've actually done it.
AI Skills You Can Put on a Resume
You use AI throughout the sprint to plan, draft, brainstorm, and refine. By the end, you've got real, hands-on AI skills you can describe and demonstrate.
Expert Feedback on Your Sample
Your draft gets reviewed by experienced IDs who know what hiring managers actually want to see. With back-and-forth on revisions as needed. We don't sign off until it's ready.
Real Human Support
2 coaching calls every week for questions, feedback, and accountability. Plus a community of people doing the same thing at the same time.
Ready to finally develop the sample?
5 Weeks. Week by Week. No Guessing.
This is a structured sprint, not a course you buy and forget. Every week has a clear focus, real deliverables, and AI woven in from Day 1. Week 1 is the planning week (real work, see below). Weeks 2 through 5 are the 30-day window inside Rise, using the free trial. No software purchase, ever.
Develop Your Content Map and Plan Your Sample
Most people skip this and regret it. Week 1 is where you apply real ID thinking. You choose a strategic topic, define your audience, write learning objectives grounded in adult learning theory, draft your assessment questions, and develop your full content map. This is the design work that separates samples that get interviews from samples that don't.
AI is in your pocket the whole time, helping you brainstorm, draft, and refine. You finish Week 1 with a complete content map, ready to develop in Rise.
Stuck on what to develop? You'll also get the Portfolio Sample Topic Generator (included free). Plug in your interests, even a hobby, and it turns them into a strategic business topic with the full case, problem, and solution mapped out. So Week 1 doesn't start with you staring at a blinking cursor.
Pre-Sprint Setup
You'll also map out your personal 5-week plan that accounts for your real-life schedule, set up your AI accountability partner, and learn the AI tool stack you'll use throughout the sprint. So when Week 2 hits, you're ready to start the Rise trial and build.
Develop Your Sample in Rise
You start the Rise free trial and work through the training modules to develop your sample. You'll get started in Rise, add interactions, bring your course to life, build knowledge checks and quizzes, and preview, publish, and QA your work.
AI is in the workflow the whole time, helping you batch-draft text, brainstorm visuals, refine assessments, and troubleshoot when you get stuck.
2 Weekly Coaching Calls
Two live calls a week where you can bring questions, get unstuck on Rise, talk through design decisions, and stay accountable. You're not figuring this out alone.
Submit Your Rise Draft, Get Feedback, and Revise
You submit your Rise draft for expert review. You receive detailed feedback from an experienced ID who knows what hiring managers want. Then you revise. There may be back-and-forth as we go because we want this sample to actually be ready.
Incorporate Final Feedback, Polish, and Publish
Apply the final revisions from Week 4. Run an AI-assisted self-review for consistency and polish. Publish your sample to a shareable link you can put on your resume, in your portfolio, and on LinkedIn. You walk out with a finished piece that's been vetted, not one you're hoping is good enough.
The Daily Sprint Tracker
You're not navigating this alone or guessing what to do each day. You'll have access to a Daily Sprint Tracker app with the day-by-day activities and checklists for the full 30 days. Open it each morning, know exactly what to work on, check things off as you go.
After the portfolio review portion of my interview, they decided that was all they needed to see. They were blown away. The step-by-step process I went through to develop my portfolio was so beneficial. The rigorous review ensures whatever goes in your portfolio is a top-notch example.
The AI Tools You'll Use Throughout the Sprint
You're not learning AI in the abstract or watching someone else use it. You're using AI to develop a real sample, week by week. By the end, you've got real AI skills you can demonstrate to employers.
Plug-and-Play Prompts for Every Stage
The full prompt pack walks you through planning your sample, designing your content map, drafting objectives, writing assessment questions, and developing in Rise. No guessing what to ask AI.
Your Accountability Partner and ID Assistant
From mapping out your 5-week plan to brainstorming topics, drafting content, troubleshooting Rise, and refining your sample. Your always-on coach throughout the sprint.
Research Synthesis You Can Actually Use
Upload your research sources, let NotebookLM identify key themes, and generate an audio overview you can listen to while you work. Huge for the content map phase.
Custom Course Visuals Without a Designer
Generate on-brand illustrations, icons, and imagery for your sample. No stock photos, no design software, no asking a friend who does graphics.
In every single interview, one thing was consistent: "Your portfolio really stood out to us. Can you tell us more about your work?" I was able to explain not only how I put together the work, but the thought process behind it. I know just from hearing that feedback that the portfolio truly did help me stand out. I've since been promoted to Director of Learning and Development.
The Support Structure That Actually Keeps You Moving
Self-paced programs have a reputation. People buy them and don't finish them. The 30-Day Rise Sprint is designed differently because the support structure is the whole point.
2 Live Coaching Calls Every Week
Two weekly calls so you're never stuck for long. Rise questions, content map review, AI tool help, design feedback, anything goes. You don't have to wait days for an answer or figure it out alone.
Expert Feedback on Your Sample
Your Rise draft gets reviewed by an experienced Instructional Designer who knows what hiring managers actually want to see. There can be back-and-forth on revisions because we want this sample to read as polished, not beginner. You don't get left hanging.
A Cohort Doing It With You
You're in a cohort of people doing the same thing at the same time. The community space is there for peer feedback, accountability, questions, and the kind of support that only comes from people who get exactly what you're going through.
The Daily Sprint Tracker
An interactive day-by-day tracker with all your sprint activities and checklists. Open it each morning, know exactly what to work on, check things off as you go. No guessing what's next.
A note from Jill
The 30-Day Rise Sprint exists because I kept hearing the same two challenges with my bigger summer program. The software cost too much. The time commitment was too big. Both are understandable.
So I built a program for you to create a portfolio sample in Rise (which doesn't require a software purchase, the free trial does the job) on a shorter, more flexible timeline. You still get real ID Fundamentals, real feedback, real coaching calls, and a real sample. Just at a pace and price that works for more people.
I've spent 22+ years in ID, including time on the hiring side of the table. I know what gets a sample noticed and what doesn't. This sprint is designed to get you there in five weeks, with the support that actually keeps you moving.
The VIP Job-Ready Toolkit
Four AI-powered job-search tools, yours to keep forever. Available for only $50 at checkout. Delivered in Week 4, when you're waiting on feedback and ready to start thinking about the job-search side of things, so they don't pull you away from developing your sample.
Resume-to-Job Posting Translator
Paste your resume and a job posting you want. Get ID-specific tweaks to tailor your resume to that exact role, with the language that gets past the screening filter.
Portfolio Case Study Writer and Interview Pitch Coach
Two tools in one. Helps you write the case study for your Rise sample (the write-up that lives on the same portfolio website as your sample), then practice pitching it confidently in interviews.
Networking Without the Awkwardness
Networking is the #1 way IDs actually get hired. This tool helps you reach out to others on LinkedIn or other platforms without sounding like a sales pitch, and turn warm conversations into real opportunities.
STAR Story Writer for Interviewing
Pulls real examples from your background and puts them into ID-specific language, shaping them into STAR-format interview stories you can actually deliver under pressure. The piece most candidates wing and lose the offer over.
4 Tools. Yours Forever.
Add the VIP Job-Ready Toolkit at checkout for an additional $50. You'll see the option after you start your enrollment.
Cohort spots are limited. The doors close when we fill.
My team members kept asking me: "How did you get this so quickly?" And I told them: it was the program. It overprepared me for that job. The storyboards I had to write were so much less complex than what I'd been trained for. I've since been promoted to Manager of Instructional Systems Design and I've hired five program graduates myself. They are my highest performers, every single one.
Program starts Wednesday, July 1 • The doors close when the cohort fills
Ready to Join the Sprint?
One enrollment. Everything you need to develop your portfolio sample. The optional VIP Job-Ready Toolkit is available as a $50 add-on at checkout.
The 30-Day Rise Sprint
Everything you need to develop a portfolio-ready Rise sample
- Full 5-week sprint curriculum
- Daily Sprint Tracker app (day-by-day activities)
- Map Your Sprint app (Week 1 setup)
- AI Prompt Pack for the full ID workflow
- Portfolio Sample Topic Generator (included free)
- Expert feedback on your Rise sample with back-and-forth revisions
- 2 weekly coaching calls for the full sprint
- Cohort community for peer support
When you start your enrollment, you'll see an option to add the VIP Job-Ready Toolkit for an extra $50. Four AI-powered tools (resume tailoring, case study writer + pitch coach, networking, STAR interview stories) to get you ready for the job search, delivered in Week 4. Yours forever.
What's not included: You'll need a free Articulate 360 trial to develop in Rise (we'll walk you through the signup in Week 1, takes about 2 minutes, no credit card required). No software purchase. No subscriptions. No surprise costs.
What Happens When You Have a Plan and Real Support
Their words. Their results. This is what working with the framework and the support structure actually makes possible.
I was constantly surprised at how amazing it was at every step of the way. It prepared me not just to enter ID, but completely changed how I approach job searching, talking about my skills, marketing myself. The skills I gained are unquantifiable. I am more confident than I ever was.
I had assignments to do with feedback and a whole community I could lean on when I needed support. I found it was flexible and attainable. I started applying for jobs and got an offer. Now I have a team I literally look forward to working with every day.
I was hesitant, but I'm so glad I did it. It gave me a solid foundation, the skills and know-how, the confidence, and a wonderful supportive community. I started in September and by April I was in my current full-time role. I feel like my voice is heard and I'm always working on something creative.
After hundreds and hundreds of applications over a year and a half, I got two interviews and neither led anywhere. I knew I had transferable skills, but I didn't know how to show them. What I needed was the structure. The program walks you through every piece of the puzzle. After joining, less than a year later I was hired full-time. I'm now happily thriving in ID and I'm so grateful.
Good questions, real answers
Yes. The sprint assumes zero Rise experience. The curriculum walks you through getting started, adding interactions, building knowledge checks, and publishing. Rise is intentionally simpler than other authoring tools, which is part of why we picked it for this sprint. Add the two weekly coaching calls and the cohort community, and you have plenty of backup when something doesn't click on the first try.
Plan on 10 to 15 hours a week. That's less than half what some bigger ID programs ask for. If you have a vacation in the middle, you can shift hours around without falling behind. The Week 1 Map Your Sprint app helps you plan it against your actual schedule before the build phase starts.
Nope. You'll use Articulate's free 30-day trial of Rise, which is exactly the window we designed Weeks 2 through 5 around. No credit card required for the trial, and no purchase required to finish the sprint or publish your sample. You can choose to keep paying for Articulate later if you want to keep developing in it, but that's entirely optional.
The VIP Job-Ready Toolkit is a $50 add-on at checkout. You get four AI-powered job-search tools (Resume-to-Job Posting Translator, Portfolio Case Study Writer and Interview Pitch Coach, Networking Without the Awkwardness, STAR Story Writer for Interviewing). All are delivered in Week 4 when you're waiting on feedback, so they don't pull focus from developing your sample.
Yes. Most members are former educators because that's where the strongest skill-transfer is, but the sprint is open to anyone making the jump into corporate ID. You don't need a teaching background. You need a willingness to do the work and the time to commit to the 5 weeks.
You finish with a published portfolio sample, a written case study (VIP), and real, hands-on AI skills you can show employers. From there you can start applying, or you can continue into the deeper Applied Instructional Design Academy program for the full job-search-to-hired path. The sprint is designed to give you the proof piece and the confidence. What you do next is up to you.
Stop watching tutorials. Develop the sample.
Five weeks. Real feedback. No software purchase. A portfolio piece that actually opens doors. The sprint starts July 1. The doors close when the cohort fills.
VIP Job-Ready Toolkit available as a $50 add-on at checkout