Every New York Student, Future Ready
How Xello Supports New York's Career Development and Occupational Studies Standards
From kindergarten through to high school Xello is designed to inspire and help every student build the self knowledge and life skills to create actionable plans for graduating high school, attending college, and achieving future life success. Download our guide to see how!
How it Works
Empower Every Student to be Future Ready with Xello
Xello ensures you have the right tools to support your district, while inspiring and engaging students to develop actionable plans in line with CDOS requirements, and postsecondary aspirations.
- Personalized Digital Portfolio
- Personalized Digital Portfolio
- CTE and Work Ready Skills
- Career Exploration
- Academic Planning
- College Exploration & Planning
Personalized Digital Portfolio
CTE and Work Ready Skills
Career Exploration
Academic Planning
College Exploration & Planning
Personalized Digital Portfolio
To help meet CDOS standards, students create a shareable, online portfolio within Xello that showcases their interests, skills and abilities. Profiles can be easily updated as students gain new experiences, reflecting who they are every step of the way.
Portfolios home screen
Experience inventory
Develop Students’ Career and Employment Related Skills
Through Xello’s work-based learning module, students can connect with local and regional employers to access applied and experiential learning opportunities, including volunteer, internship, and job opportunities. This helps them develop crucial career and employment related skills such as teamwork, collaboration & critical thinking to thrive in today’s job market.
Student side explore WBL opportunities screen
Educator side WBL opportunities management
Explore Careers With Interactive Assessments
Students complete a Career Matchmaker Interest Inventory, identifying their interests, aptitudes and aspirations. These, along with personality and learning style assessments, encourage self-exploration, helping students define their career and college ready goals
Matchmaker results
Biologist career profile
Photojournalist career profile
Career Profile in Xello
Easily Build Course Plans that Meet Academic Requirements
With Xello’s course planner your students can build course plans to meet graduation requirements, aligning their plans to future aspirations & career goals. Xello supports CTE options, multiple graduation pathways & dual credit courses & enables students to document their academic achievements & awards.
High School Course Planner
Prepare Students for College and Postsecondary Education
Xello enables your students to browse 1000s of postsecondary institutions, guiding them seamlessly through the college application process and equipping them with information on postsecondary education costs and eligibility for FAFSA and scholarships. Students can also sync their Common App account with Xello, using both apps to easily track their college applications.
Xello college profile
College planning workspace
Access for Families
In Xello’s Family Portal, parents and guardians can collaborate with educators to support students on their journey to future-readiness. What’s more, Xello has been professionally translated for Spanish-speaking families across New York, and is also available in other preferred languages through the Google Translate extension, ensuring no family gets left behind.
Deliver a Consistent K-12 Solution
With Xello, you get a full K-12 experience, making it easier for students to build on their work from elementary to middle to high school - and for educators to track student progress from year to year.
Engaging Curriculum and Lessons
Xello keeps students engaged and excited about future planning through built-in curriculum and customizable lessons that builds the skills and knowledge employers value. This provides students with a personalized learning experience and gives educators back their precious time.
See how Xello helps more students meet CDOS standards
Educator Tools
Enables New York Educators to Assess Student Progress and Support CDOS standards with Ease
Xello provides educators with powerful tools for reporting and student management so they can keep track of student goals and motivate them to create postsecondary plans for future success.
Deliver Personalized Learning at Scale
Efficiently personalize learning for every student. With Xello’s engagement and profile reports at the student, school, and district level, you’ll deliver personalized learning at scale and save time on administrative tasks. You can also keep your students’ plans organized in a centralized spot to ensure their academic success.
Stay Organized & Keep Students on Track
Easily manage and manage student plans with Xello’s integrated course planner. Xello also offer college application tools, with FAFSA application tracking, that integrate with your Student Information System and course guide. As well, you can ensure every student is on track with critical alerts, two-way messaging, and the ability to communicate with students directly.
Help Students Develop Work Ready Skills
Help students develop real-world skills to thrive in today’s job market. With access to student profiles, you get a snapshot of each student’s skills and activities in Xello. You get a better understanding of who your students are and their goals, helping you play an even bigger role in developing their employment related skills.
What Educators Say
Students and Educators Love Xello — But Don’t Take Our Word for It!
Why Students and Educators Love Xello
In Their Own Words
Students appreciate having a conversation with other students in their classroom about the kind of the career they're interested in. There's a lesson that ties into lifestyle [that] ties into Xello.
Ayinde Bennett
Postsecondary Success Manager
The Urban Assembly, Inc, New York
Our integration with the student management system (SIS) is HUGE! There's virtually no maintenance on my end and I can focus on using Xello with my students!
Jessica Morton
School Counselor (7-12)
South Kortright Central School, New York
Award Winning Support
A Team That's Always Here for You
As an SIIA CODiE Award winner for Best Customer Experience in Ed Tech, our well honed processes combined with our enthusiasm for great service ensure that every client always gets the most out of Xello. Here's how we do it:
A Trusted Strategic Partner
It starts with a strong foundation. Xello partners with each client to understand their unique needs, and craft strategic multi-year plans to maximize student impact and district goal attainment.
On-Demand Training & Support
Our comprehensive and ever-growing library of online resources and courses, empower educators to easily look up and develop expertise in every aspect of Xello.
Answers When You Need Them
Can't find what you need? Not a problem. Whatever your query, our award-winning Client Solutions team is here to give you the answers you need, when you need them.
Book your demo to see how Xello helps students fulfill the CDOS standards to become future ready.
Request a Demo