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Staff: Overview of Elementary Student Platform
Staff: Overview of Elementary Student Platform

Learn how to demo the elementary platform as a student and explore its key features.

Updated over 3 weeks ago

Overview

SchooLinks' elementary platform is designed to foster future readiness and career exploration for young students through engaging, age-appropriate tools and activities. It enables students to connect their interests to potential career paths, set SMART goals, and build a strong foundation of knowledge and life skills. Features include wellness check-ins, career assessments and exploration, profile and portfolio building, and more, all accessible through an intuitive, student-friendly interface with read-aloud functionality.

You can use the Demo as Student tool to explore the platform from the perspective of an elementary student at any time.

Demo as Student

If you only have access to elementary students, you will see the dashboard immediately when you log in to SchooLinks.

If you also have access to middle school or high school students, you may see the Middle & High School Staff Dashboard when you log in. To switch to the Elementary platform click Select Mode in the top navigation bar, then select Elementary.

  1. To experience the platform as a student, click Demo as student, select the school and grade level, and then click Continue.

  2. If you have already demoed this school and grade level, you can click Reset Account to reset the student demo account. Otherwise, click Continue with User.

    *Note: Resetting the demo account will erase all data that has been generated while previously using the demo account. This will allow you to onboard the demo student as a first-time user.

Elementary Student Features

Explore each section below to learn more about the SchooLinks elementary student experience.

Check-Ins

Upon logging in, elementary students will be prompted to answer wellness check-in questions. With just four simple questions, students can reflect on how they feel emotionally, physically, cognitively, and socially.

*Note: check-in questions and frequency can be customized for each school and grade level.

Dashboard Overview

  1. The top navigation bar contains the translation tool, student profile, read-aloud feature, and log out button.

  2. The side navigation bar provides access to the various platform modules.

  3. The To do section contains assigned tasks due within the next two weeks. Students can click the blue arrow to be taken directly to the feature to complete the task.

  4. The main dashboard section provides quick links to the primary activities.

Read Aloud

The Read Aloud functionality provides students with the flexibility to either have the page automatically read to them or to manually pick and choose which text on the page they want read aloud. The read-aloud feature works on all pages and on all pop-up windows.

  1. Click Read aloud to initiate the read-aloud feature on each page.

  2. Play/Pause Button: Click the play button at the top to automatically have the entire page read section by section. Click pause to allow for manual selection of the text to be read aloud.

  3. Speaker Icon: Click a speaker icon to read the corresponding text.

  4. Mute Icon: Click the stop reading icon to exit the read-aloud function at any time.

Student Profile

Students can add their strengths, achievements, interests, hobbies, skills, and languages to their profiles with just a few clicks, choosing from preset options that best represent them. Student profiles save year over year and follow the student as they transition to middle school.

To access the student profile either click the name button in the top navigation bar, or click the My Profile quick link.

Click the profile button at the top or the My Profile quick link on the dashboard to access the student profile

Student Profiles include the following sections:

  • About Me: Customize the profile dashboard with a photo or custom avatar, edit the name and headline, and upload a cover photo.

  • My Story: Add strengths, things students are proud of, interests, and hobbies. Select from a preset list of options or type in their own.

  • Bragging rights: Add unique skills and spoken languages

  • Portfolio: Showcase projects, activities, and accomplishments with content such as file uploads, videos, and test responses.

  • My videos: Students can click the blue video icon to record themselves answering question prompts.

Career Exploration

There are two career-related features for students to explore: the Career Center and the Career Matcher. Learn more about each below.

Career Center

Students can explore career groups, specific careers within each career group, and details of those careers, including a description, needed skills, and videos. Students will also have the ability to "like" and "dislike" a career.

*Note: Available careers vary by grade level. View the breakdown here 👉 K-5 Career Grade Breakdown & Descriptions

Career Matcher

In the Career Matcher, students complete a Career Interest Inventory that guides them through a range of multiple-choice questions. Based on their answers, various career options are recommended for students to explore.

VR Workplace Tours

Students can explore real workplaces and immerse themselves in dynamic virtual workspace experiences using virtual reality.

  1. Click the VR Workplace Tours quick link to access the VR tours.

  2. Click See inside to enter one of the workplaces, then click the designated areas to learn more about that workplace.

Goal Tracker

Students can create goals in a way that suits them best, offering both guided and self-led experiences. In the guided experience, students are taken step by step through the SMART acronym, as they build their goal by selecting from a variety of options. The self-led experience encourages students to take charge and type out each part of the SMART acronym independently.

  1. Click the Goal Tracker tile on the dashboard

  2. Click What is a SMART goal? to watch a video explaining SMART goals.

  3. Click Create a new SMART goal to create a new goal.

  4. Then select either Write your own be guided through the process or Choose a goal to select goals from a preset list of options.

  5. All created goals will appear in the "In progress" tab. Once the goal has been accomplished, students can mark it as complete and it will appear in the "Completed goals" tab.

Assessments

The Elementary platform comes equipped with two assessments to help students see the connection between their interests and potential career possibilities.

  1. Click the Self Quizzes quick link to access the assessments.

  2. Click Start Assessment on either assessment tile to get started. Assessments include:

    • Find Your Path: Students agree or disagree with statements and are presented with character traits and top career group matches

    • Would You Rather: Students choose between two activities and are matched with a list of career groups

Learning Hub

The Learning Hub contains assigned self-guided learning chapters related to the world of work. Chapters and lessons are segmented by grade band (K-3 and 4-5). View the breakdown here 👉 K-5 Learning Hub Chapters and Lessons Objectives.

  1. Click the Learning Hub quick link to access.

  2. If the chapters have been assigned via a Scope & Sequence To Do, they will have a due date in the top left corner. Each chapter contains mini-lessons that can include:

    • Videos

    • Interactive Quizzes

    • Surveys

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