Work-Based Learning
Overview
Work-based learning (WBL) connects your classroom learning to real-world experiences to help you build skills, explore careers, and gain experience before graduation.
Using WBL, you can:
Set your preferences to receive personalized recommendations.
Explore opportunities and express your interest in participating.
Track your progress and manage your commitments.
Access
To access WBL, go to Careers and select Explore Work-Based Learning. On your first visit to WBL, you will be prompted to select your preferences. If you want to set your preferences later, click Skip to opportunities to display the Work-based learning home page.
Review opportunity details
Select an opportunity listing to display the opportunity details.
Review the opportunity information and understand how it compares to your profile.
Click Favorite to save it to My favorites, or click Apply, Sign up, Register, or Request if you want to participate.
Look for tags like Profile Match or High Demand to find the best-fit roles.
Set your preferences
Set your preferences to ensure that Naviance recommends opportunities aligned with your interests, location, and future goals.
Select Careers and choose Explore Work-Based Learning.
Select My Preferences.
Select your location preferences and click Next.
Select the opportunity types of interest and click Next.
Select the tags of interest and click Finish.
Review the opportunities recommended based on your preferences.
You can update your preferences anytime to get better recommendations by selecting My preferences.
Navigate work-based learning
From the work-based learning navigation, access the available pages.
Work-based learning page | Details |
|---|---|
Work-based learning home | Review personalized opportunities and recommendations. |
All opportunities | Browse the full list of available opportunities. |
My opportunities | Access the opportunities that you are participating in. |
Favorite opportunities | Review the opportunities you’ve saved as a favorite. |
My preferences | Manage preferences to help personalize recommended opportunities. |
Manage your opportunities
From My opportunities, you can track your participation progress, log hours, and stay organized.
Track participation
Each opportunity displays a status label so you can track your participation.
Update participation status
Select Careers and choose Explore Work-Based Learning.
Go to My Opportunities.
For the selected opportunity, open the status menu and choose an option from the list.
Log hours
Select Careers and choose Explore Work-Based Learning.
Go to My Opportunities.
For the selected opportunity, click Hours.
Choose to enter hours for a single day or a range of days.
Select a date or choose the start and end dates.
Enter the total number of hours participated.
Click Add hours.
Check back to find out if your hours were approved.
Manage logged hours
Select Careers and choose Explore Work-Based Learning.
Go to My opportunities.
For the selected opportunity, click Hours.
Choose to Edit your hours, Resubmit, or Delete them.
Cancel participation
Cancel your participation if you have changed your mind about an opportunity and want to remove it from your My opportunities list.
Select Careers and choose Explore Work-Based Learning.
Go to My Opportunities.
For the selected opportunity, click More options (three dots) and choose to cancel your participation.
Confirm your decision.