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Naviance release notes June 2025

Product area

Date

Type

Summary

Description

PowerBuddy

June 26, 2025

Enhancement

PowerBuddy AI Help for staff

We’re excited to announce the launch of PowerBuddy AI Help for staff. This new feature empowers staff users to ask questions related to the product help center and receive guided, step-by-step assistance directly within the platform.

College planning

June 17, 2025

Enhancement

Download unofficial transcripts

The Download unofficial transcripts feature in Naviance streamlines the process of accessing academic records for students. With just a few clicks, you can:

  • Enable transcript downloads for specific grade levels

  • Let students select and download multiple transcripts at once

  • Ensure all downloads are marked as unofficial

PowerBuddy

June 17, 2025

Enhancement

New PowerBuddy chat log locations

We have added PowerBuddy for College & Career chat logs to the Student Folder for staff and now allow students to review their chat logs in Naviance Student. Chat logs in the Student Folder will be visible to staff users with the View PowerBuddy chat logs permission. From the Student folder, the chat log can be found in a new Chat Log section. Students will be able to access their chat logs using the new Chat History button that will display in the PowerBuddy window that students use to chat with PowerBuddy. Students will have nearly the same view as staff but will not know which of their chats have been flagged by PowerBuddy for inappropriate messages.

Work-based learning

June 10, 2025

Enhancement

New work-based learning - enhanced participation verbiage

We’ve released an improvement to our new work-based learning opportunity creation flow. We’ve added a Participation step to the simple stepper that you go through when creating an opportunity. This will allow you, and soon enough your external partners, to specify the action you’d like students to take to indicate they are going to participate in a work-based learning opportunity. The options we’ve provided are Apply, Request, Register and Sign Up.

Try it out for yourself today in our new work-based learning module. From Naviance Succeed if you have a work-based learning permission by going to Careers and selecting Work-based Learning. From there click Try it now from the page banner.

As a reminder, the student side of new work-based learning has not been released yet so stay tuned for future releases and enhancements.

Staff Dashboard/ School Dashboard

June 6, 2025

Enhancement

District Staff Dashboard Launch and School Dashboard Improvements

Staff Dashboard for Districts and Enhancements for School Dashboard

Introducing enhancements that empower district staff with streamlined access to both school-level and district-wide data—helping teams stay aligned, monitor progress, and manage priorities more effectively.

Key features and widgets include:

  • Customizable Dashboard Access: The "Customize Dashboard" option is now front and center for quicker personalization.

  • Student Search: Search for students directly from the district dashboard by selecting a school—no need to navigate away.

  • Student Demo Site Access: Easily view the student demo site from the district dashboard. Simply choose a school to access its corresponding student view.

  • Student Groups: Student Groups are now prominently displayed for faster access and better management.

  • Favorited Reports: Quickly access both Naviance and custom reports you’ve marked as favorites for faster insights.

  • Tasks: Monitor task completion across all schools with district-level aggregation.

  • Usage Reports: Gain visibility into student engagement trends across the district.

  • Simplified School Switching: Easily switch between school sites. Use the logout option to return to the district dashboard.

School Dashboard Enhancements

List of usability improvements to the school-level dashboard to simplify staff workflows:

  • Customizable Dashboard Access: Now more easily accessible for quicker personalization.

  • Quick Access to Email and Groups: Email and student group tools are now prominently placed for fast communication.

  • My Assigned Students: View a comprehensive list of students in a staff member’s caseload. If no students are assigned, a “No assigned students” message will appear.

Success Planner 2.0

June 3, 2025

Enhancement

Success Planner 2.0 phase 2

Phase 2 of Success Planner 2.0 is now live, bringing powerful new features to enhance student planning and task management. Key features include:

  • Expanded task library: Includes built-in tasks tailored by pathway and grade level, and the ability to create custom tasks

  • Flexible completion triggers: Add one or multiple triggers per task, with support for and/or logic and trigger groups.

  • Automated task assignment: Tasks are automatically assigned based on a selected pathway, grade, or student group.

  • Enhanced student homepage view: Students can now review their next task, due dates, overall progress, and a direct link to all assigned tasks.

  • New My Tasks page: Students can view pending and completed tasks, with filters for priority and task type.

  • Guided task completion: Each task includes step-by-step instructions and a recent activity log.