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As of Winter 2008:
- Customize Course Plans
Found in the Site Administration section of your Professional Tools, now you can adapt the standard course plans in Choices Explorer to match your school courses. Create a template and then take advantage of the copy ability that allows you to easily build multiple recommended course plans for various career clusters and pathways. You may also add graduation requirements to help your students plan accordingly.
As of Fall 2007:
- Career Cluster Functionality
- Browse by Career Clusters — Replacing the current career zones, Career Clusters will become the
primary structure for browsing careers as well as programs and majors.
- Cluster Finder — The Cluster Finder will allow students to find clusters that may be appropriate for
them.
- Career Cluster and Pathway Profiles — All references to Career Clusters and Pathways in Choices
Explorer will be linked to new profiles for the Cluster or Pathway. Using the same format as Choices
career and college profiles, the new Career Cluster and Pathways profiles will include a description of the
cluster or pathways, lists of related careers, and lists of related programs/majors.
- Plan High School Courses — The High School Course Plan Builder will be enhanced to offer a Career
Cluster starting point for students. Course plan templates for each Career Cluster will be offered to
students for use in constructing their own personal course plan.
- Career Clusters in Portfolios — Students will be able to store Career Clusters and Pathways of interest
in their Choices portfolios. These could be Clusters and Pathways from the results of the Cluster Finder or
identified through exploration.
- Attach Documents to Your Portfolio
Now Choices Explorer users will be able to attach documents into
the Your Activities section of their portfolio. Enabling easy access online anytime, anywhere, Word documents,
PowerPoint presentations or any other file type up to 5MB in size can be stored in Your Portfolio -- to a
maximum total capacity of 30MB. Professionals have the power to review user's attachments and delete any
content deemed inappropriate.
- New Professional Reports
Empowering greater insight into your students' planning progress, for sites
with both Choices Explorer and Choices Planner, ten new reporting functions will be added to the Reporter
section of your Professional Tools. Now professionals can review and report on: saved colleges, saved programs,
colleges applied to, FAFSA submissions, completed resumes, completed interviews, completed cover letters,
saved scholarships, number of attached documents, and active portfolios by graduation year.
- Portfolio Names Column
Easily assist students who have forgotten their portfolio name. When browsing
class lists in the Reviewer section of your Professional Tools, professionals will have the ability to quickly
identify a student's portfolio name in the new Portfolio Name column.
- Forgot Your Password Retrieval
Further enhancing portfolio security, a new password retrieval process
is being put into effect. Now when a student forgets their password, they can either request that it be e-mailed
to the address provided in their personal portfolio or to the holder of a Professional Account, who can then
provide it to them. If they choose, professionals have the ability to opt-out from being e-mailed students'
passwords.
- New Content
Choices Explorer's articles are updated on a regular-basis — many of which are in response to
student requests.
- Change Schools
Making it easier for graduating classes to be moved from middle school to high school, the Change Schools feature, found in the Reviewer section of your Professional Tools, allows educators to move students to another school by using the other school's site id and password. This tool only allows educators to move a student OUT of their school. Educators cannot import students into their school. Additionally, Professionals can also choose to move their account to a different site. Simply go to the Edit Professional Account Information link in your Professional Tools, and Change Schools.
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