A Xello feature for every one of your college and career readiness needs
Xello offers a robust set of features that checks all of the boxes, but also makes college and career planning engaging and fun for your K–12 students. Discover what Xello has to offer.
Conference Themes
The New & The Evolving Worlds of Work
Automation, AI, and emerging economies are redefining what it means to be job-ready. As the future of work continues to evolve, educators and partners must rethink the skills, experiences, and mindsets students need to succeed in evolving roles and those that don’t yet exist.
K–12 Future Readiness Systems & Pathways
Future readiness must be designed as a system: intentional, measurable, and deeply human. Schools are building pathways that do more than move students forward, helping them explore interests, make informed decisions, and plan for life beyond graduation.
Career Readiness Through Counseling, Instruction, & Advising
Students are navigating decisions that are more complex than ever before. Counseling and advising plays a critical role in leading CCR systems, helping students build confidence, clarity, and direction while supporting the educators who guide them.
The Human Side of Readiness: Navigatihg Uncertainty
Students face more choices than ever—pathways, programs, credentials, careers—yet clarity hasn’t kept pace with complexity. Future readiness depends not just on access to options, but on how students understand them, evaluate tradeoffs, and make confident decisions over time.
Reimagining Postsecondary Pathways
As postsecondary education continues to evolve, K–12 educators have an opportunity to help students navigate what comes next with confidence. New credential options, changing enrollment patterns, and shifting definitions of value are creating a wider range of postsecondary pathways.
Self-knowledge & skill-building
Career Matchmaking Assessments
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Students learn about how their interests and personality traits impact the types of careers that they might find fulfilling. The Matchmaker assessment provides career suggestions that innately align with who students are, while also identifying career options they may not have thought of on their own.
Skills Lab Assessment
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Students self-report on how often they would like to use skills in their future career. They’re prompted to consider not only the skills they currently possess, but also those they may want to improve.
Learning Styles Assessment
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Students gain an understanding of their unique learning styles, with clear feedback and concrete techniques to help them study and retain information.
Personalized Digital Portfolio
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Students create a personal portfolio that represents who they are today and captures their plans for the future. Customizable background images and avatars encourage students to make the space their own, and a shareable link makes sharing their journey with their networks easy.
Turnkey Career and College Readiness Curriculum
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A fully-integrated lesson curriculum designed to encourage reflection and help students apply learning. Lesson content teaches social-emotional competencies and practical skill-building and includes personalized content based on students’ saved careers and interests.
Student Dashboard Feed
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A personalized news and social media-like feed that shows students safe, carefully curated content based on their selected areas of interest, saved schools, and saved careers.
The Dashboard Feed aims to create new learning opportunities and increase student engagement by surfacing helpful educational content in a fun, relatable way.
The Dashboard Feed aims to create new learning opportunities and increase student engagement by surfacing helpful educational content in a fun, relatable way.
Academic & career readiness
Career Profiles & Interviews
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Modern photography featuring real-life practitioners helps students envision themselves in a career, while they learn about the day in the life of a professional—including key tasks and workplace conditions, earnings by career stage, career demand, and more.
Career Clusters
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Students can explore careers grouped by common skills, knowledge, and industries—expanding their knowledge of options in a particular field.
Volunteer & Experience Hour Tracking
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Students can track volunteer hours and create a visual timeline of their volunteer, education, work and life experiences, prompting reflection and learning from each experience.
Resume Builder
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Using the work students have already saved in Xello, students can quickly create a professional resume that meets the needs of today’s employers.
Work-Based Learning Opportunities
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WBL coordinators and staff can centralize local opportunities into Xello, making it easy for students to discover and show interest in experiences that can help deepen their career exploration and training.
Four-Year Course Planner
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Students can easily build academic plans that align to their post secondary goals while counselors save time through automated prerequisite validation, specialization tracking, and graduation tracking.
Long-term Planner
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Help students find the path that’s best for them and prepare for life after graduation. Xello’s Plans tool teaches students about their pathway options and helps them build an actionable to-do list, while easy-to-read reports give educators the insights they need to provide tailored support and guidance.
Goal Setting
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Goals teaches students about goal-setting in an engaging and manageable way to help them understand how completing small steps influences their long-term plans. For educators, it gives them the insights they need to provide personalized feedback to support their students’ personal, academic, and social-emotional growth.
College planning & applications tracking
School Profiles
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Xello’s database of over 3,500 national, state-specific, and local school profiles gives students a clear picture of their post-secondary options. Students see the majors offered at a given campus, insights about graduate employment and salary, details about life on campus, cost calculators, important deadlines, application requirements and more so they can make college decisions with confidence.
College Knowledge Hub
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A dedicated space for students to get answers to frequently asked questions. Topics include FAFSA, Scholarships, Grants, Common App, and more, delivered through short-form content that’s been educator-reviewed and vetted for accuracy.
Scattergrams
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This feature helps students gain a clear, data-driven understanding of their admission possibilities based on trends from past applicants, comparing their SAT/ACT scores and their GPA against previously accepted, waitlisted or declined applicants.
Scholarships
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Educators can add scholarships into Xello, creating a centralized space where students can easily discover and save scholarships that can help finance their education.
In-App Messaging
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Proactively engage your students outside of the classroom, so you can provide every student the level of support they need to complete application requirements tasks, meet deadlines, and successfully plan and achieve their college and career goals.
Transcripts
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Students can request transcripts and monitor their statuses with just the click of a button while educators get a central place to import, manage, submit, and track transcripts.
Letters of Recommendation
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Students can use a simple online workflow to draft, send, and track requests for letters of recommendation while educators can view requests, send letters, and keep track of their progress.
Application Tracker with Important Dates
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Students get the insights, flexibility, and confidence to easily track their college applications. As students work through their college application checklists, a list of important dates helps them prioritize tasks and meet application and FAFSA deadlines.
Intuitive College Planning Reports
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Easy-to-read reports let you track student college applications, FERPA waiver status, scholarships, teacher evaluations and more – so you can quickly identify students who require additional support.
Test Scores & GPA in Xello
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This feature allows educators to upload various test scores for students. This can be done district-wide or at single schools sites. Once uploaded, educators can view these scores directly in Xello on the student's profile or under Features in Student Test Scores & GPA.
Meanwhile, students can view their own test scores and GPA in About Me, and even add these to their Portfolio to easily showcase their academic performance and achievements. Parents/guardians can also view the student test scores and GPA from their Xello Family account.
Meanwhile, students can view their own test scores and GPA in About Me, and even add these to their Portfolio to easily showcase their academic performance and achievements. Parents/guardians can also view the student test scores and GPA from their Xello Family account.
Educator tools
Insightful Student Profiles
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Access complete student profiles to see individual students’ career matches and assessment results, long-term goals, saved colleges, experiences and more to support you in having more meaningful one-on-one conversations.
Demo Student Account
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Every educator account includes a demo student account that lets you freely explore the student side of the program.
Ready-Made Reports
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Dozens of real-time, ready-made reports easily track student work, progress, and engagement in a visual, easy-to-understand format. Administrators, counselors, and teachers can run unlimited reports and narrow data down to better understand students at an aggregate and per-student level.
State Mandate Reporting
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A customized report gives you a clear view into how Xello’s lessons meet each of your state requirements and an easy way to track progress towards mandate compliance.
In-App Messaging
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Proactively engage your students outside of the classroom and provide every student the level of support they need to complete tasks, meet deadlines, and successfully plan and achieve their college and career goals.
Xello Academy
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Ensure fidelity and get educators excited about Xello with our free online learning management system that offers self-paced, self-directed courses for educators wanting to learn more about Xello.
Surveys in Xello 6-12
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Surveys in Xello help educators track student progress towards their goals, and can help educators to provide personalized support and guidance for their students based on survey responses.
Meanwhile, students can find the surveys on their dashboard, and complete them without leaving Xello. They can save and return to finish later. And depending on the settings you add to the survey, they can submit multiple times.
Meanwhile, students can find the surveys on their dashboard, and complete them without leaving Xello. They can save and return to finish later. And depending on the settings you add to the survey, they can submit multiple times.
Family portal
Student Profiles
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Parents and guardians can be invited to gain full visibility into their students’ future goals and plans so they can better support their learning and development. The read-only experience lets families see their child’s progress on lessons, course selection, and career and college exploration.
Parent Demo Accounts
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Parents and guardians can try Xello and experience first hand what their child is working on in school. This includes the lessons they can take, skills inventories and personal assessments they can conduct, the different careers they can explore and learn more about, and how plans to achieve academic and future goals are developed.
Multilingual
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To support the needs of the many families we serve, Xello has been professionally translated into Spanish and French. To support other languages, parents can use the Google Translate extension to translate all content within the program to their preferred language.
Early exploration
Self-knowledge
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Students create their very own space that reflects their unique skills, interests and achievements, helping them build self-awareness and start connecting the dots between who they are and possible career options.
Career Profiles & Discovery
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Students are presented with rich, age-appropriate information about careers to ignite their interest in the world of work. With every career profile, students are encouraged to keep exploring careers, even those they might not know about, through discoverable content.
Goal-Setting
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Students have the opportunity to set short-term and long-term goals. They’re introduced to effective goal setting frameworks and begin building longer range thinking skills.
Lessons
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Lessons help guide students through their experience in Xello, teaching them age appropriate skills to make transition to middle school easier.
Educator Reports
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Centralized educator tools and reports standardize reporting across K-12. Educators can track student engagement and progress while gaining valuable insights about student interests, skills, and career preferences.
Accessible and inclusive
Exceeds WCAG 2.2 AA Accessibility Standards
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Xello supports students of all abilities by delivering a fully accessible experience with font sizes, contrast ratios, keyboard navigation, video captioning, and screen reader.
Fully Mobile Friendly
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Inspire exploration beyond the classroom! Students can access and work in Xello from any device – including mobile, tablet and desktop.
Age-Appropriate Reading Level
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Xello’s content is written at a 3rd and a 6th grade reading level to ensure it is accessible, approachable, and easy-to-read for all learners.
Multilingual
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Professionally or AI translated in over 130 languages, ensuring comprehensive inclusivity with a user-friendly interface.
Single sign-on and rostering
SSO Compatible
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Xello's optional single sign-on (SSO) service for students and educators links the program directly to your student portal or learning management system, saving valuable classroom time.
Supported SIS Integrations
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Xello integrates with dozens of SIS systems to securely exchange data making student, educator, and parent/guardian account creation, deactivation, and updates quick and easy. These include: Skyward, PowerSchool, SchoolTool, go.edustar, Aeries, ED-FI, Edsembli, and more.
Class Rostering and Group Creation
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Xello will create groups for each class and students will be assigned based on their current course enrollments. Custom groups can also be created for efficient assignment, tracking and reporting on specific subsets of students.
Powerful integrations
Method Learning
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Enable easy access to web-based SAT/ACT Preparation and Financial Literacy courses with Xello’s Methodize integration. Designed to help students maximize their test-taking abilities and take charge of their financial futures, Xello’s Methodize integrations will increase subject mastery and confidence.
National Student Clearinghouse
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Xello’s integration with National Student Clearinghouse gives you a quick and easy way to track graduates’ college success rates without ever leaving Xello.
Common App
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With Xello’s CommonApp integration students easily organize and manage their college applications, and counselors get a one-stop-shop for application tracking.
Intellispark Pro
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Intellispark Pro is an innovative student success platform that provides a hub for insight, intelligence, and interaction. This integration with Xello lets educators connect their students’ future goals and plans with their present social-emotional health and well-being, giving them the visibility, insights, and actionable next steps to personalize support for every student.
There are more features to explore
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