1. Using Family Connection
Online Resource for Planning & Advising
Overview for Parents

2. Overview What is Family Connection? How do I access it?
How do you register?
What can I do with it?
How does it help career and college planning?

3. What is it?
Web-based resource that supports course, career, and college planning
Specific to our school
Secure program – information is not accessible from the web
Widely used by high schools and colleges to facilitate electronic submission of transcripts & recommendation letters

4. How is it accessed? Family Connection is on the Web
Link in the Guidance section on the WMHS website. Link also under the Parents tab.
Each student has their own account
Each parent has an account
Each person must have THEIR OWN address

5. How do you register? Each parent and student receives a code
Use code to create a personal account
Codes are random and alphanumeric for security reasons
Codes can be used only once
On your first visit, enter the code in the New User box, then follow on-screen instructions
On subsequent visits, sign in using the Returning User box – your is your user name and you create your own password
Password can be reset if forgotten

6. What can it do? Assist and outline college planning
Surveys to help assess personality factors, career match, college match
Compare colleges
Compare self to college criteria based on other applicants from previous years at WMHS. Includes chart and scattergrams.
Track application deadlines, materials sent, teacher recs
Create a student resume
Show upcoming college visits
Information on open houses, scholarships, summer programs, SAT & ACT test dates

7. Main Page

16. My Applications

18. Explore Careers

19. Personality Type

20. How does it help? Shared resource linking home to school
On-line tool for collaboration among counselors, students, and parents
Realistic assessments of your child’s chances of admission at colleges where prior graduates have applied
Career exploration
“One stop shopping”

21. Questions
For more information, please contact your child’s counselor