Engage, empower, and enable adult learners

Portfolio

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Learn Evolve

Peek behind the curtain of the Evolve eLearning authoring tool. Built with Evolve for IDOL courses Academy.

[🎓 eLearning] [🎥 video training] [🛠 Evolve] [✍ writing] [🎨 Canva] [🖌 Figma]


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Energy 101

This interactive course introduces employees to the energy industry. Built with Rise and Storyline for a green energy company.

[🎓 eLearning] [📈 Articulate Rise] [🔗 Articulate Storyline] [✍ writing] [🖋 adobe illustrator] [🎙 WellSaidLabs]


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Remote Interviews

This 1-hour virtual workshop prepares career changers for remote interviews. Built with Canva for adult learners in technical bootcamps.

[👩🏫 instructor-led training] [✍ writing] [🎨 Canva]


Publications

View a selection of my published work, including blog posts and a podcast appearance with IDOL, and courses I've created for Rumie Learn.


About

My Story

Marilyn Day

💪 I engage, empower, and enable adult learners through concise writing, clear design, and creative solutions. As a full-time instructional designer, I craft courses that combine adult learning theory, practical storytelling, and engaging design.


Highlights:

  • Develop technical eLearning for Google data center employees and cloud cybersecurity admins

  • Coach early-career IDs and new team members with best practices and actionable feedback

  • Create virtual and in-person ILT for adult learners, including Google data center Controls

  • Leverage AI tools (e.g., WellSaidLabs, ChatGPT) to streamline workflow and enhance content

  • Design microlearning (e.g., Rumie Learn) and professional blogs


💡I have a background in coaching, psychology, and edtech, with a master’s in clinical psychology from Pepperdine University.🥊 When I'm not working, I'm kickboxing or learning something new.🤝 Let’s connect to talk instructional design or explore my work.


Skills

Gained through hands-on experience and continuous learning, including emerging tools like AI-assisted learning technologies. View my Credly page for more credentials.

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Instructional Design

  • ADDIE

  • Adult education & learning principles

  • Bloom’s Taxonomy

  • Curriculum development

  • Design thinking

  • LMS management

  • Needs analysis

  • Scripting & storyboarding

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eLearning Tools

  • Adobe Creative Cloud (Acrobat, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro)

  • Articulate Storyline 360 & Rise 360

  • Camtasia

  • Evolve

  • Figma

  • Google Slides & PowerPoint

  • WellSaidLabs



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Learn Evolve

iPad with Evolve training on a desktop flatlay

Client: IDOL Courses Academy
Audience: Instructional designers, eLearning developers
Peek behind the curtain of the Evolve eLearning authoring tool. Explore the course while you watch the videos to see more of the Evolve back-end interface.

[🎓 eLearning] [🎥 video training] [🛠 Evolve] [✍ writing] [🎨 Canva] [🖌 Figma]

[🎓 eLearning] [🎥 video training]
[🛠 Evolve] [✍ writing] [🎨 Canva]
[🖌 Figma]

Evolve Basics

Evolve Advanced

📝 Details


Key contributions:

  • Designed and developed an Evolve course with basic and advanced features

  • Produced two instructional videos in Zoom for IDOL courses Academy

  • Authored course content and created visual assets

  • Showcased advanced functionality of the infographic component

  • Built a custom theme in Evolve

  • Adapted the course into a stand-alone eLearning experience


Impact:
Enabled instructional designers to confidently use Evolve for professional projects, reducing their learning curve, and supporting adoption of advanced eLearning tools.

Remote Interviews

Woman at a laptop with a screen showing "Remote Interviews" title page.

Client: edtech company
Audience: Career changers
This 1-hour virtual workshop prepares career changers for remote interviews. Created in Canva, adapted from a workshop I facilitated for career changers in technical bootcamps. View the slide deck, participant guide, and facilitator guide.

[👩🏫 instructor-led training] [✍ writing] [🎨 Canva]

Slides

Participant Guide

Facilitator Guide

📝 Details


Key contributions:

  • Developed a virtual instructor-led training for adult learners advancing or changing careers

  • Adapted the training for portfolio use with enhanced visuals and interactivity

  • Interviewed a SME to gather best practices for remote interviewing

  • Created an editable participant guide to support note-taking and engagement

  • Designed a facilitator guide to support consistent delivery


Impact:
Enabled learners to gain confidence and skills for remote interviews, addressing a critical knowledge gap during the shift to virtual hiring.

Energy 101

Computer facing a city-view showing the cover page of this course.

Client: Green energy company
Audience: New employees
Designed to introduce new employees to the company and its energy projects. Transitioned a one-on-one training into a 15-minute standardized eLearning course. All company and partner identifiers have been removed for this portfolio version.

[🎓 eLearning] [📈 Articulate Rise] [🔗 Articulate Storyline] [✍ writing]
[🖋 adobe illustrator] [🎙 WellSaidLabs]

[🎓 eLearning] [📈 Articulate Rise]
[🔗 Articulate Storyline] [✍ writing]
[🖋 adobe illustrator] [🎙 WellSaidLabs]

📝 Details


Key contributions:

  • Developed learning objectives and course outline from 20+ pages of SME content.

  • Wrote a leadership-approved script incorporating current operations, future initiatives, interactive checkpoints, and scenario-based learning.

  • Built the course in Rise, including a voiced Storyline block, and designed visual assets and infographics.

  • Applied instructional design principles to create a clear, engaging, and learner-focused experience.

  • Ensured consistent branding, maintaining company colors, fonts, and visual style.


Impact:
Delivered a polished onboarding course that balanced current operations with strategic vision, standardized learning across the organization, and improved employee engagement.