1. Navigating Student Futures through Naviance (and other websites)
Pomona High School
April 15, 2014
How many parents of 9th vs. 10th vs. 11th vs. 12th graders here tonight? How many are familiar ICAP ? With Naviance?. Naviance is basically a an academic, career and college dashboard that stores the ICAP tasks (or milestones) students have been working on in order to prepare for post-secondary opportunities. Tonight you’ll learn how to add this dashboard to your computer or smartphone to help guide students to their goals.

2. Jeffco ICAP Milestones 2013-14
7th Grade
(Completed)
8th Grade
9th Grade
(Nov.18-19)
10th Grade
(Nov )
11thGrade
(Nov. 4-5)
12th Grade
(Oct. 25)
1. Complete Career Cluster Finder
1. Complete Career Key
1. Review Graduation Requirements – 9th Grade
1. Complete College Search
1. Build Resume
2. How Do I Learn Survey
2. Review Graduation Requirements/HEAR – 8th Grade
2. 4 Year Plan
2. Build Resume
2. Add Colleges to My List
2. Financial Aid Plan
3. ICAP Recap – 7th Grade
3. ICAP Recap – 8th Grade
3. Complete Career Interest Profiler
3. 4 Year Plan
3. Scholarship Search
4. ICAP Recap – 9th Grade
4. ICAP Recap – 10th Grade
4. Review Graduation/HEAR/NCAA/NAIA Requirement
4. Jeffco Senior Survey
5. Index Score
6. 4 Year Plan
7. ICAP Recap – 11th Grade
These are the state and district ICAP Milestones (or a grade-level appropriate career and academic plan).
Students complete these yearly in the computer labs. See the green dates above for when they’ll do them this year.
Note the second column of your handout and the highlighted tasks. These are some of the more important aspects of career and college planning.
Sometimes students complete these in a hurry and don’t consider future implications. In a moment I’ll show you on Naviance where their completed tasks are stored so you can assist them in reviewing or revising their work.

3. Naviance Used by 4.5 million students Career assessment
Personality tests
Naviance Student Mobile App
(iOS devices)
Naviance is a hub for over 4.5 million students
Course planning
College research and matching tools
Integrated with The Common Application

4. 1. Google PHS Website 2. Go to Naviance

5. Log in E-mail: Student ID # Password: Student’s 8 digit DOB
Birthday
The login in is your student’s ID#. If you don’t know your student’s id #, see the posters on display. Before we quickly tour Naviance please remember that this powerpoint is linked to our website for future reference. Call on us if you don’t know your student’s id #.

6. Home Screen Updates College visits Main areas to navigate
ICAP Milestones
The orange tab indicates the home page and posts time sensitive data taylored for grade level. There is a document library. Notice the five tabs along the top. Starting at the right and going left, the most important four are my planner, about me, careers, and colleges.
Important information

7. My Planner Tab – “Tasks Assigned to Me”
Let’s go to “My Planner” for a 12th grade student to see what milestone a student will need to do and has already finished. Click on the purple tab called “Tasks Assigned to Me”.

8. 12th Grade Milestones Milestones
Here are some 12th grader milestones to be completed. Go to where it says “Expand this list” near tasks you’ve completed.
Milestones

9. “Tasks You’ve Completed”
Click to view student responses
You can click here on the blue tasks and drill down into certain tasks to see your students responses. Depending on the age of your student, you may review your student’s job resume, 4 year plan of classes, or college or scholarship list.

10. About Me Tab
Go to the “About Me Tab”. Check out any number of these, especially the “interesting things about me” and the “official things” tab. For a 12th grader a student’s portfolio, favorite colleges, game plan, resume, test scores, and completed surveys are available for review. For those of you with students in lower grade levels, share this section with your student and have them do some tasks appropriate to your student’s needs and interests. For example, have your student complete a personality or career profiler. Then search through our course guide to pick classes for next year. Consult us too. These pages provide info that informs our guidance too.

11. Careers Tab
The Career Tab houses career-based information and student profilers. The career interest profiler is done by 9th graders.

12. Colleges Tab
Here’s the section you’ve come for tonight. I’ll open up myself as a student on another screen and show how easy picking colleges is once I have a major, a location, a price tag, and my scores and GPA in mind. Keep a special eye on the college research section as it offers lots of ways to compare colleges and consider eligibility factors for students. We’ll also go over looking at scholarships before I let you free to play.

13. SuperMatch College Search
Choose criteria for search
Students pin favorites to build lists

14. College Navigator

15. Choose
Criteria

16. Pick many schools, add to favorites, compare tuitions, retention rates
Pick many schools, add to favorites, compare tuitions, retention rates. Use a multiyear calculator. Archive data.

18. Factors Determining Admissions Eligibility

19. Pick a category that applies to you and/or your student
Scholarship Lists
Pick a category that applies to you and/or your student
Scholarship: Categories available include grade, specific college, financial Need, sport, major, ethnicity, and many more. Also look at the blue links to the right.

20. Scholarship Lists Category: PHS’ scholarships
Blue links direct you to scholarships
Scholarship: Categories available include grade, specific college, financial Need, sport, major, ethnicity, and many more. Also look at the blue links to the right.

21. How Counselors Review/Send Student Information to Colleges
This is page that we see, but you can. It helps us look at everything from courses, to test scores, to selected colleges, resumes etc. The opened link show how we send student’s letters of recommendation, transcripts, school profile, and other pieces colleges may ask for.

22. Questions??
If you have any questions or need help with any part of Naviance Family Connection, ask your student’s counselor.
And remember…You and your student can log on from ANYWHERE!