Introduction to Naviance

What is Naviance? How do I login into Naviance?Why are we using Naviance? How can Naviance help guide student post-secondary planning?

A web-based resource for students and parents that encourages and supports post high school career and college planning

Family Connection is linked with Naviance Succeed, a service that is used in the counseling office to track and analyze data about college and career plans

Family Connection is specific to Prairie View High School

What is Naviance?

Go to the PVHS website: pvhs.sd27j.org Then go to Counseling drop down menu and Select Academics or Career/ College Readiness

How to Log on to Naviance

How to Log on to Naviance

Click on the Naviance link

Now click on Student log-in

Log-in: same as Infinite Campus “Email”: student ID #Password: first initial, last initial 6-digit birthday

This is student ID #

This is an example of the home screen (12th grade)

We want students to explore their interests and begin to connect those interests in order to build post-secondary plans/goals! Examples:

Why do we use Naviance?

College Planning◦ Explore college majors◦ Search colleges◦ Application process◦ Scholarship/financial aid resources◦ Compare GPA, standardized test scores, and other statistics to actual

historical data from our school for students who have applied and been admitted in the past

◦ Prepare for the PSAT and ACT exams Career Planning

◦ Research careers and career clusters◦ Complete career assessments

Create plans for the future◦ Complete tasks assigned by the school to better prepare students for

future career and college goals◦ Create a résumé◦ View college visits/career fairs and sign up◦ Explore Military options for those interested

HOW STUDENTS AND PARENTS CAN UTILIZE NAVIANCE

Go to “My Planner” Then “Tasks assigned to me”. Complete the Career Interest Profiler by October 1st, which is the next time we will come in to your classroom

Here are some examples of assigned tasks we add for students:

This is an example of one of our current senior’s page:

College Planning and Tracking:

Ways to search for scholarships!

Click on College Tab

Next, Click on Scholarship List

We list our local scholarships and most common known here. There are thousands of additional scholarships available to students

Other great scholarship sites include:

*Fastweb.com*Scholarship.com*Finaid.org *Zinch.com*Nextstudent.com*Supercollege.com

Naviance Scholarships:

Click on the “About me” Tab Then Select “Naviance Parent Survey”

We would like you to take a short survey to help counselors get a better understanding of additional support needed!

“Naviance Parent Survey”

Click on “About me Tab”

Questions?