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- SchooLinks
SchooLinks
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Your new resource for College and Career Planning
SchooLinks is a modern, college and career readiness platform to prepare students for what comes after graduation. SchooLinks helps students discover their interests and strengths, explore colleges and careers, and create an individualized career and academic plan that best reflects their post-secondary goals. SchooLinks at Liberty Public Schools is accessible in Grades 6th through 12th by students and their parents. SchooLinks features are incredibly user-friendly and were designed to streamline the college and career readiness workflow for counselors and staff.
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Using SchooLinks, Students and families can:
Access career interest, strength and mindset surveys
Explore 2-Year and 4-Year colleges
Create course plans based on career pathways
Take virtual reality college campus tours
Search for scholarships
Learn about financial aid
Explore traditional, emerging and military career fields
Create digital portfolios or resumes
Communicate with counselors
Build their ICAP (Individual Career & Academic Plan)
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Using SchooLinks, teachers, counselors and staff can:
Centralize all student info in one place (course plans, resumes, transcripts, scores, etc)
Track students’ college applications
Post internships, scholarships and career fairs
Send electronic transcripts and supporting documents
3 way communication among students, parents, counselors
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What is SchooLinks?
SchooLinks is a dynamic application that helps LPS students create a roadmap for future college and career goals. Students log in, take fun quizzes about their skills, interests, and goals, then see the steps necessary to achieve their college and career aspirations.
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What resources does SchooLinks include?
- Quizzes to assess career interests, personal strengths and mindset surveys
- Detailed information about 2 and 4 year colleges
- Virtual reality college campus tours
- Infomation about financial aid and scholarships
- Personalized to-do lists and deadlines
- Explore traditional, emerging and military career fields
- Portfolio and resume building capabilities for 6-12th grade students
- Q&A sessions based on career interests
- Communicate with counselors about tasks
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What information can parents or families view?
Parents will have view-only access to their student(s)’ ‘case file‘ including their assessment results, activities they have completed and experience tracking.
Parents will also be able to participate in college searches, career exploration, financial assistance resources and scholarship searches.