Naviance

Naviance overview

Naviance is the leading college, career, and life readiness (CCLR) platform that enables students to discover their strengths and interests, build critical life readiness skills, create actionable goals and find their best fit path after high school.

Review the Naviance Terms of Service to learn more about confidentiality, the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, and more.

The College, Career, and Life Readiness (CCLR) Framework

The Naviance CCLR framework is a blueprint to prepare students in middle and high school students for success after graduation.

The framework:

  • Outlines six competencies, including themes and objectives.

  • Lists grade-specific activities aligned with the grade-specific objectives.

  • Provides guidance on key metrics to track for each competency.

Naviance CCLR Live by Kaplan courses are available to help your district or school achieve its CCLR goals.

CCLR_Framework.pdf

Product editions

Depending on your institution, you may use Naviance District Edition, Naviance School Edition, or both. All Naviance accounts include Naviance Student.

District edition

Use Naviance District Edition to manage individual schools within your district and:

  • Import data.

  • Run district-level reports.

  • Assign district-level programs and tasks.

  • Transfer students between schools.

  • Create zones for schools in your district to enhance reporting capability.

  • Share historical application results from multiple schools across the district.

  • Restrict staff user access.

The Naviance District Edition homepage displays links to features and a list of schools in your district with active and inactive Naviance accounts. Select an active school name to display the school's Naviance account.

School edition

Use Naviance School Edition to customize Naviance Student, the student-facing platform, and manage operations such as:

    • Self-Discovery assessments

    • College planning and application management

    • Scholarships management

    • Career planning and exploration

    • eDocs and college application tools

Staff users with the job function of teacher experience the Teacher dashboard when logging in to Naviance. From the Teacher dashboard or Teacher Desk, teachers can manage letter of recommendation requests.

Staff users assigned a job function other than teacher experience the default dashboard when logging in to Naviance. The default dashboard in a school-level account has customizable widgets, allowing you to quickly access essential information without navigating to multiple pages.

Naviance Student is a student-facing platform that includes assessments, college and career searches, planning tools, a resume builder, and more. Using these tools, students can answer questions about their future, such as:

  • Who am I?

  • What do I want to be?

  • How will I get there?

  • How will I succeed?

Give parents and guardians Naviance Student accounts so they can access college, career, and life planning resources and gain insight into their student's post-secondary plans.

Naviance Student has received a Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT), denoting it as Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 AA compliant. Visually impaired students can navigate the product using screen readers, and the text and background color maintain a minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1.

Naviance Student Overview for Parents and Guardians.docx

Overview.docx

Product structure

All Naviance accounts include core tools. In addition, subscription-based extended modules are available to enhance the experience for your district, school, and students.

Core tools and extended modules overview

Tool or module name

Category

Description

College Planning

Core Tool

Tools to research colleges, compare admissions statistics, track applications, and request transcripts/letters of recommendation.

Career Planning

Core Tool

Explore careers, clusters, and pathways, view wages and job outlooks, and access Roadtrip Nation video interviews.

Self-Discovery

Core Tool

Assessments including AchieveWorks®, Career Interest Profiler, and StrengthsExplorer® to identify student strengths and interests.

Success Planning

Core Tool

Actionable goal tracking, task assignments, and to-do lists to keep students on track toward post-secondary goals.

eDocs

Core Tool

Electronic document submission system for sending transcripts, recommendations, and school profiles to higher education institutions.

Alumni Tracker

Core Tool

Track post-secondary outcomes and college enrollment trends for district and school alumni.

PowerBuddy for College & Career

Core Tool

AI-powered assistant providing guidance and links to relevant features and reports for students and staff.

Course Planner

Extended Module

Subscription module allowing students to build multi-year course plans aligned with graduation requirements and career pathways.

Curriculum

Extended Module

Subscription module offering CCLR digital lessons and interactive content for middle and high school grade levels.

Insights Premium

Extended Module

Advanced analytics and reporting module providing deeper visibility into student readiness and outcomes across districts.

Test Prep

Extended Module

Subscription test preparation tools for college entrance exams including SAT, ACT, and AP courses.

Career Key

Extended Module

Specialized Holland Code-based career assessment to match student Holland personality traits with compatible careers.