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What’s New in CollegeInColorado.org June 2011 Release. Topics. Enhanced Career Keyword Search. Student Center. Single Keyword Search. Single Keyword Search. Enhanced Careers Keyword Search. Career Search Process. Multiple Keywords Search. Multiple Keywords Search. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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What’s New in CollegeInColorado.orgJune 2011 Release
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Topics
Enhanced Keyword Search
‘Get a Job’ Documents Enhancement
Scholarship Search Improvements
Printing & Exporting Plans of Study
Reporting Enhancements in Report Builder
Annual Reminder to Update School Connection (CIC)
New Milestone for Parent Plan of Study Review (CIC)
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Enhanced Career
Keyword SearchStudent Center
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Single Keyword Search
Benefit
Produces more effective results by suggesting careers based on the work performed - not just the name of the
career.
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Single Keyword Search
Example: “Scene”
Keyword “Scene” = Crime Scene Technician
Results include articles with the whole word “scene”, such as Crime Scene Technician.
Keyword Location• Career names• Alternate names for careers• Names of related and similar careers• Descriptions of careers
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Enhanced Careers Keyword Search
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Career Search Process
Go to the Career
Planning tab
Click on the Explore Careers section
Click into the Search
box & enter keyword (s)
Explore the improved
Careers List
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Multiple Keywords Search
Benefit
Creates a more comprehensive list of matching careers to consider for career
exploration and planning.
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Multiple Keywords Search
Example: “Crime Scene Technician”
Crime + Scene + Technician
Results include any article with all three keywords as whole
words
Keywords ≠ Exact Phrase
Keywords do not have to appear as an exact
phrase
Keyword Location
• Career names• Alternate names for
careers• Names of related and
similar careers• Descriptions of
careers
Order The keywords can
appear in any order
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‘Get a Job’ Documents Enhancement
Student Center
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Export This for ‘Get a Job’ Documents Benefits
Benefits
Allows editing and formatting outside of the product in a word processing program like Microsoft Word
Gives greater flexibility to job
search documents by allowing users to personalize and enhance their
documents
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‘Export This’ Option
Resume Builder
Cover Letter
CreatorThank-You
Letter Builder
Print ThisE-mail ThisPDF ThisExport This
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Accessing the ‘Get a Job’ Tools
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‘Export This’ Option
Resume Builder
Cover Letter Creator
Thank-You Letter Builder
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Export Process
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Exported Documents
Can be added to the
portfolio as an
uploaded
document
Will not appear in the
Resumes
section of the
portfolio
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Professional CenterThe Export This option is available in the Professional Center when professionals are viewing portfolios.
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Scholarship Finder Enhancements
Student Center
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Scholarship Finder Enhancement Benefits
Benefits
The Scholarship Finder now
encourages more student input for
more results.
Students will see better matches in
their list of scholarships.
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Scholarship Finder Enhancements
• Revised Your Scholarship Profile instructions encouraging users to enter as much data as possible
• Search characteristics ordered by popularity
• Pre-populated search characteristics• Enrollment Level search characteristic
removed
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Updated Instructions
Red text alerts
students that the more data
they enter, the better the
list of matching
scholarships will be.
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Search Characteristics Re-ordered•Similar items
are now grouped together.
•Easily answered characteristics are listed first.
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Pre-Populated Search Characteristics
• Citizenship• Country • State
Characteristics will be populated from
the portfolio unless the student has already made a
selection.
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Enrollment Level“Enrollment Level” search criteria was removed to increase scholarship matches.
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Printing & Exporting Plans of Study
Professional Center
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Printing & Exporting Plans of Study for Professionals
Benefits
Professionals will find it much easier to print
plans of study in the Plan of Study Tracking Report.
Professionals have more options to export student
Plans of Study Tracking Report data.
Enhanced summary and student identification
information is included in tracking reports.
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Printing & Exporting Plans of Study for Professionals• Custom Plans of Study printing options added.• Unnecessary data and links have been
removed from the printer-ready version.• Students’ plans of study are separated during
batch printing.• Data fields to aid student identification have
been added to the Plans of Study Tracking export file.
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Printing Plans of Study Drill down to an individual
portfolio in Students and Groups to print a single plan.
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Printing Plans of Study
Drill down to an individual portfolio from within the Plans of Study Tracking Report to print a single plan.
Drill down to a group of portfolios in the Plans of Study Tracking Report and print up to 25 students as one batch.
Access the Plans of Study Tracking Report on the Report Tab and select the portfolios by the graduation year you wish to view.
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Printing Plans of Study
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Printing Plans of Study
Look of Printed Plans:
• Links are removed.• Empty labels for notes have been hidden.• Page breaks occur between plans when
batch printing
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Exporting Plans of Study Tracking Data
Exported Plans of Study Tracking Data Report Summary
Report Name
School or Program Name
Selected class or group
Report Date
Number of students included
Selected Graduation Year
Selected Plan of Study Status
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Exporting Plans of Study Tracking Data
Extended Summary
Additional Student Identifiers
First & Last Name
columns
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General Enhancements in Report Builder
Professional Center
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Student Names in Displayed Reports
• Names displayed in one sortable column• Lastname, Firstname format
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Student Names in Displayed Reports
• Student ID column added• Account Name column added
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Student Data in Exported Reports
• Names displayed in sortable columns.• Last Name and First Name appear in
separate columns.• Student ID column added.• Account Name column added.
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Annual Reminder to Update School Connection
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Annual Reminder to Update School Connection
Benefits
Students will be reminded when they first sign in at the beginning of a new school year to check and make sure
that their account is connected to the appropriate school
Incorrect primary school site connections will be reduced or
eliminated for more effective student management and more concise
reporting.
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Annual Reminder to Update School Connection
Create Account + Connect to School Site Transfer Schools
Update Account on The Basics
page
Update Account during Annual
Reminder
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ProcessFirst Sign in Between August 1 and March 31
Connection is Correct
Confirm Connection
Enter CollegeIn Colorado site
Connection is Incorrect
Select Change
View School Selector
Select a New School
Select Cancel
Enter CollegeIn Colorado site
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Account
Creation June
1
1st Sign
In August 1
No Promp
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DetailsStudents who have just created an account within the last two months will not receive this prompt.Example:
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User Experience: Site is Correct1. Student signs in for the first time
between August 1 & March 31.
2. If the school connection is correct, the student clicks Save.
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User Experience: Connection Has Changed
1. Student signs in for the first time between August 1 & March 31.
2. If the school connection is NOT correct, the student clicks Change.
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User Experience: Connection Has Changed
The student selects a new school on the School Selector page and clicks Continue.
The School Confirmation page is displayed again showing the newly selected school. Students save to confirm & continue.
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User Experience: Connection Has Changed
A student who has changed his or her primary school site connection will be removed from all groups and lists of students in the Professional Center.
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Student with Multiple Schools
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Student with Multiple SchoolsPrimary Connection Remains
the Same
No longer presented with Update Your Account Screen.
Primary connection and Professional Center groups association don’t change.
Secondary connections and group associations don’t change.
Primary Connection = A current Secondary
Connection
Student is released from the primary connection.
Student is removed from groups at the former primary connection
school.
Secondary connection becomes primary connection.
Groups association on the new primary connection and all
remaining secondary connections remain intact.
Primary Connection = A New School
Student is released from the primary connection school.
Student is removed from any groups at the former primary
connection school.
Student is associated to the new primary connection school.
All secondary connections and their group associations remain
intact.
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New Milestone for Parent Plan of Study Review
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Plan of Study Parent Review Milestone
Benefits
A Parent Plan of Study Review milestone can now appear in a
student’s list of planning milestones.
Professionals can now use the Milestone Tracking Report to track the completion of the Parent Plan of Study
Review, simplifying the reporting process
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Milestone for Parent Plan of Study Review
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New Milestones
6th Grade Parent Plan of Study Review
7th Grade Parent Plan of Study Review
8th Grade Parent Plan of Study Review
9th Grade Parent Plan of Study Review
10th Grade Parent Plan of Study Review
11th Grade Parent Plan of Study Review
12th Grade Parent Plan of Study Review
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Setting Parent Review Milestones
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Student Use of Parent Review Milestones
Marked as complete when parent review is completed and saved.
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Student Use of Parent Review Milestones
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Student Use of Parent Review Milestones: No Plan of Study
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Parent Review of Student Plan
The Parent Review form remains unchanged.
The first parent review of a Plan of Study “counts” as the completed milestone in each school year.
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Tracking Parent Review Milestones
Parent Plan of Study Review milestones appear in the Milestones Tracking Report.
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Tracking Parent Review Milestones
New Parent Plan of Study Review milestone detail report
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