1. Presented by the OTHS Counselors
Naviance Training
Presented by the OTHS Counselors

2. Agenda What is Naviance and family connection? Log-On Procedures
Proposed list of activities by grade level
Home page and About Me
Careers
College
Question and Answer time

3. What is Naviance?
Naviance/Family Connection is a comprehensive and widely used college and career planning software program that will assist our students, parents, and counselors in various areas of their education and post-high school planning process.

4. WHAT CAN STUDENTS AND PARENTS DO USING FAMILY CONNECTION?
View guidance news bulletins
Create a résumé
View college visits and sign up
Complete a college search
Develop a prospective college list
Provide access to scholarship search engines; over a hundred national
scholarships are available
Maintain journal entries
Game Plan Survey
Complete school developed surveys
Compare colleges
Links to selected third party resources
(i.e. College Board, Financial Aid, NCAA, Careers, College searches, etc.)
Track deadlines
View scattergrams

5. How is it accessed?
Family Connection is web-based Parents/Guardians will be provided login information by December 9, Students can access via My Katy Cloud. Login using your Katy ISD login and password. Type Naviance into the search area

7. Naviance Tile

8. After You Sign in Updates from the Guidance Office Click on the Tabs
Important Messages
Updates from the Guidance Office

9. Colleges Page
Use these links to do a college search

10. See what College visits are scheduled and sign up to attend!

11. College Profile
Visit College Website

12. Colleges I’m Thinking About
Click Here to add colleges to your prospective college list

13. About Me – Resume and Surveys
Click here to fill out important surveys, tell us your Game Plan and create your resume

14. Search for and Explore Careers

15. Careers

16. Activities Take Career Interest Profiler
Things to Do ”
Take Career Interest Profiler
Take Learning Styles Inventory
Take Strength’s Explorer
Start your resume

17. My favorite careers and clusters

18. colleges Will probably be the most used tab at chs!
Includes college rep visits to chs, supermatch college search, scholarship search, request transcripts for applications, and ability to link to college websites.

19. *Students can add schools to Colleges I’m thinking about
SuperMatch:
Narrow down the list of schools your student is interested in using the categories… you do not need to complete every step unless you want to !
*Students can add schools to Colleges I’m thinking about

20. Upcoming Dates Feb 7 9th Grade Parent Night
Feb 8                        10th and 11th Parent Night
6:30pm in the PAC
January 30 -Mar 3   Course Selection Meetings with counselors