How it Works
Unlock Student Potential through the Power of Personal Learning Plans
Xello helps your students immerse themselves in the process of creating Personal Learning Plans (PLPs), guiding them through career exploration, course selection, postsecondary education, and experiential learning opportunities.
Career Exploration
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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.
Academic Scheduling
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Create 4-Year Course Plans
With Xello’s course planner feature, you can ensure your students build course plans to meet state and local academic standards and graduation requirements. Xello supports students with an individualized personalized pathway, and accommodates backwards course planning, two-for-one course credits, and more.
Postsecondary Exploration
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Prepare Students for College and Postsecondary Education
Xello enables your students to browse numerous 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.
Employment Related Skills
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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.
Share with Parents
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Share Student Plans with Parents
With Xello, parents and guardians can become active participants in your student's future planning as our platform gives them a complete view into their child’s activities in Xello. They can also view the student’s Xello profiles in Spanish, enabling Spanish speaking parents to better support their child’s goals.
Career Exploration
Academic Scheduling
Postsecondary Exploration
Employment Related Skills
Share with Parents
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.
Create 4-Year Course Plans
With Xello’s course planner feature, you can ensure your students build course plans to meet state and local academic standards and graduation requirements. Xello supports students with an individualized personalized pathway, and accommodates backwards course planning, two-for-one course credits, and more.
Prepare Students for College and Postsecondary Education
Xello enables your students to browse numerous 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.
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.
Share Student Plans with Parents
With Xello, parents and guardians can become active participants in your student's future planning as our platform gives them a complete view into their child’s activities in Xello. They can also view the student’s Xello profiles in Spanish, enabling Spanish speaking parents to better support their child’s goals.
Build SEL Skills with Lessons
With integrated lessons, students build essential SEL skills, enabling them to gain skills and knowledge they can apply in the real world rather than simply checking the boxes on their PLP requirements.
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.
Create Customizable Content with Ease
Xello offers you the ease and flexibility to tailor your curriculum to fit the unique needs of your district, students or grade both in and outside the classroom.
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Enables Minnesota Educators to Assess Student Progress 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 your students’ plans using Xello’s integrated course planner, and college application tools that integrate with your Student Information System (SIS) and course guide. With critical alerts, two-way messaging, and the ability to communicate with students, you can ensure every student is on track.
Help Students Develop Work Ready Skills
Help students develop the 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.
CASE STUDY
How a Minnesota District Engaged Students to Create Personal Learning Plans with Xello
Learn why Saint Paul Public Schools chose Xello to engage their students with developing college and career plans & prepare them for lifelong success.
Especially for our younger students, it’s intuitive, visually interesting, and easy to navigate. Xello helps facilitate the process of building Personal Learning Plans and we’re excited to be able to track student engagement and evaluate our implementation.
Educator Tested & Approved
Support
A Team that Always Has Your Back
A Strategic Partner
With Xello, you’ll get expert, strategic guidance on how to implement and deliver world-class future readiness experiences for your students.
Resources to Help Districts Succeed
Your front-line staff will be ready to confidently lead their students through Xello with free, online training resources that cover both the educator and student experience.
Unlimited Tech Support
Whatever your question, our Client Solutions team is here for you. You and your staff will feel supported by unlimited technical support.
Why You Should Choose Xello
Accessible for all students
Successful futures are for everyone. Xello meets WCAG 2.0 (Level AA) standards with full keyboard, screen reader, and low vision accessibility and is also available in Spanish.
Available on any Device
Whether your students are at home or in school, they can easily access Xello on any device. This is especially helpful now with schools engaging in hybrid and remote learning.
Data Syncs with SIS
Secure integration with your Student Information System (SIS) so that students’ course schedules, academic history, and plans are viewable in one place.
Protects Student Data
With the latest advances for end-to-end encryption, regular security audits and 24/7 monitoring—you can be sure protecting student data is our top priority.