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Using Family Connection Regents School of Austin CEEB #440295 3230 Travis Country Circle, Austin, Texas 78735 Academic & College Advisor – Patricia Nehme [email protected] Online Resource for Planning & Advising Overview for Parents

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Using Family ConnectionRegents School of AustinCEEB #4402953230 Travis Country Circle, Austin, Texas 78735

Academic & College Advisor – Patricia [email protected]

Online Resource for Planning & AdvisingOverview for Parents

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Overview

What is Family Connection?How do I access it?How do you register?What can I do with it?How does it help career and college planning?

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What is it?

Web-based resource that supports course, career, and college planningSpecific to our schoolLinked with Naviance Succeed, a service that we use in the counseling office

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How is it accessed?

Family Connection is on the Web http://connection.naviance.com/

SCHOOLNAME

Parent accounts – will be emailed to youStudent accounts – given to students through their homerooms

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How do you register?

Each parent and student receives a code Use code to create a personal account Codes are random and alphanumeric for

security reasons Codes can be used only once

On your first visit, enter the code in the New User box, then follow on-screen instructionsOn subsequent visits, sign in using the Returning User box

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What can it do?

Share plansComplete surveys, build resumesCompare colleges; Scholarship SearchesLinks to selected third-party resourcesTrack deadlinesProduce scattergramsShow schedule of college visits

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Take Surveys & Get Information •Family Profile: Personal Contact Information •PSAT and College Admission Tests scores•GPA •College related announcements •Colleges I’m thinking about: 9th – 11th grades•Colleges I’m applying to: ONLY 12th GRADE•Do What You Are: 9th – 12th graders •Career Interest Profiler: 9th – 12th grades•Cluster Finder: 9th – 12th grades •Resume Builder: 9th – 12th grades•Journal: 9th – 12th grades •Parent Questionnaire – Parents of Juniors•Junior Year Interest Area Survey •Game Plan – Juniors •Graduation Survey – Seniors

Main Page

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After Sign in

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College Profile

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College Compare

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Scattergram

My Applications

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Explore Careers

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Personality Type

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Course Plans

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How does it help?

Shared resource linking home to schoolOn-line tool for collaboration among counselors, students, and parentsAccurate, complete records about student choices from our schoolRealistic assessments of your child’s chances of admission at colleges where prior graduates have appliedCareer exploration; Scholarship SearchesCourse planning

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Questions

For more information, please contact

Patricia NehmeAcademic & College [email protected]