1. Using Family Connection
Online Resource for Planning & Advising
Overview for Parents

2. Overview What is Family Connection? How do I access it?
How do I 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 Student accounts
Student accounts

5. How do you register? Each 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. Click on “I need to register”

7. Enter your registration code

8. Fill in your email, password, check “I accept” and complete the registration

9. Click on the “About Me” tab

10. Under Official Things Click on “profile”

11. Under Parents Click on “add new parent”

12. Please fill in the information, especially the email address.

13. Family Connection Home Page

14. Explore the college searches

15. College Profile

16. College Compare

17. My Applications

18. Explore the different assessments

19. Explore Careers

20. Explore the resources and tools

21. Personality Type

22. 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
Course planning

23. Questions
For more information, please contact Rachel Guyette or