Using Family Connection Regents School of Austin CEEB # Travis Country Circle, Austin, Texas Academic & College Advisor – Patricia Nehme Online Resource for Planning & Advising Overview for Parents

2 Overview What is Family Connection? How do I access it? How do you register? What can I do with it? How does it help career and college planning?

3 What is it? Web-based resource that supports course, career, and college planning Specific to our school Linked with Naviance Succeed, a service that we use in the counseling office

4 How is it accessed? Family Connection is on the Web Parent accounts – will be ed to you Student accounts – given to students through their homerooms

5 How do you register? Each parent and student receives a code Use code to create a personal account Codes are random and alphanumeric for security reasons Codes can be used only once On your first visit, enter the code in the New User box, then follow on-screen instructions On subsequent visits, sign in using the Returning User box

6 What can it do? Share plans Complete surveys, build resumes Compare colleges; Scholarship Searches Links to selected third-party resources Track deadlines Produce scattergrams Show schedule of college visits

7 Take Surveys & Get Information Family Profile: Personal Contact Information PSAT and College Admission Tests scores GPA College related announcements Colleges I’m thinking about: 9 th – 11 th grades Colleges I’m applying to: ONLY 12 th GRADE Do What You Are: 9 th – 12 th graders Career Interest Profiler: 9 th – 12 th grades Cluster Finder: 9 th – 12 th grades Resume Builder: 9 th – 12 th grades Journal: 9 th – 12 th grades Parent Questionnaire – Parents of Juniors Junior Year Interest Area Survey Game Plan – Juniors Graduation Survey – Seniors

Main Page 8

After Sign in 9

College Profile 10

11 College Compare

12 Scattergram

My Applications 13

Explore Careers 14

Personality Type 15

Course Plans 16

17 How does it help? Shared resource linking home to school On-line tool for collaboration among counselors, students, and parents Accurate, complete records about student choices from our school Realistic assessments of your child’s chances of admission at colleges where prior graduates have applied Career exploration; Scholarship Searches Course planning

18 Questions For more information, please contact Patricia Nehme Academic & College Advisor