Compass+
Compass+ is a user-friendly digital tool designed specifically for educators, offering comprehensive resources and guidance to help you develop the future skills of your students.
The tool allows you to benchmark, manage, track and report on your school's careers provision at individual student level. Once populated with student data, Compass+ also allows staff to track individual student activities, interests and destinations, store careers partner contacts, and complete and analyse the Future Skills Questionnaires.
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Resources
- The Careers Impact System is a new process that drives continuous improvement in the quality of careers education in schools and colleges - this breaks down into 4 areas: Overview - Internal Leadership Review, Careers Impact System Essential Guidance - Compass+, How to access the internal leadership review on Compass+ and How to access internal leadership review responses on Compass+.
Use this quick infographic to help ensure you are prepared to deliver the Future Skills Questionnaire.
FSQ Parent/Carer Message Template
- A template letter/email to send parents and carers raising awareness of the FSQ questionnaire and that students will be asked to complete it.
FSQ Learner PowerPoint Presentation
- A PowerPoint presentation educating about the FSQ (hosted on Issu.com). From there you can download the file to be used in the classroom.
- The Careers and Enterprise Company product experts run training webinars to share new product functionality. Each webinar is hosted on Zoom and lasts approximately one hour.
Self-Service training and support
- To help you use Compass+ more effectively in your setting, there are a range of help articles and resources available in the Help Centre plus comprehensive self-paced training modules available in the Digital Hub.
Hear from practitioners across the country to learn how they use Compass+ to add value to their careers activity and measure the impact of their careers provision:
Compass+ Impact story - Creating your institutional memory with Compass+ (youtube.com) Allison Redshaw, Deputy Headteacher at Walney School, Barrow-in-Furness, shares how Compass+ has helped to create their institutional memory.
Using Compass+ to prepare for Ofsted – Compass+ Impact story Marie Harding, Head of Careers at The Regis School, Bognor Regis, shares how Compass+ really helped her to prepare for their last Ofsted inspection.
Compass+ Impact story - The value of the future skills questionnaire (youtube.com) Simon Wareham, Assistant Headteacher at Southmoor Academy , Sunderland, shares how the Future Skills Questionnaire has helped him to evaluate their careers provision.
Compass+ Impact story - Using Compass+ to build and improve your careers programme (youtube.com) Dee Long, Careers Coordinator at Rockwood Academy, Birmingham , shares how Compass+ has helped her to improve and develop their careers programme.