001Uh good evening everyone, parents, families, guardians. Uh my name is Michael Burton. I'm the customer success manager here at school links. And uh my goal goal and role is to help and support you, your students, and the counselors and staff members in APS that are supporting your students. With that being said, uh we have quite a bit of content tonight to uh help and support you all with the course planning process that will be happening in your school district that actually has already been uh started. So uh we do have two separate sessions. This first session will be more so focused on our rising uh seventh and rising eighth grade students and then we have a later part of the session that will be focusing on our high school students as well. Uh during the
002session we're going to cover uh just high level the course planning feature, what it is, how it's used, the general timeline and flow of activities in course planning. We'll also talk about how uh course plan is used as a student from that perspective. And don't worry parents and guardians, we will keep you in the loop. uh I will show you some features that you can use from your schoolings account to keep track of where your student is in the course planning process and also acknowledge uh once you've reviewed their course plan. At the end of this particular session, I will provide you with some helpful resources that you can use to learn more about the different features that we'll cover tonight. All righty. So starting us off with a highle overview of course planning. Uh
003first question you might have is uh what is course planner? So uh course planner is a studentdriven multi-year planning tool. Uh this tool is used to align students goals and uh post-secary um outcomes and journeys that they would like to focus on uh with the courses that they're selecting. Now, um, this also is a system that helps support the counselor workflow and brings parents and guardians into the conversation so you can see what's going on when it comes to the students course plan selection or course selection. Before we get too far ahead, I wanted to discuss the student scope, meaning which students are course planning, what are they planning for? And so, starting off, I'm going to model all of these uh later in our session this evening. Uh but our sixth grade students, they
004are planning for their seventh grade courses via school links. For our seventh grade students, they'll be planning for 8th and 9th via long-term planning. And then for our eighth grade students, they'll be planning for uh 9th through 12th. And then our uh 9th through 11th grade students, uh they'll be planning for those remaining years of high school. All right. So, there are some key milestones that happen within course planning and uh the short and sweet version is uh first the student will go in, they'll go through a process I'll model here in a moment where they submit their course plan. They add the courses that meet the requirements. Uh they click the submit button. Then from there there's a counselor approval process where the counselor will review what the student has selected um and make
005the selections and make adjustments and also pull the student in for conversations um relative to what they've chosen. Then uh the box highlighted in yellow below is where you come into the picture. Uh once the student submits and the uh counselor has approved the course plan, you will receive an automated email that will let you know that the course plan is ready for your review uh via our course plan acknowledgement feature. From there, uh we're looking at just next year's courses for the actual course request um for to kickstart the uh scheduling process. All right. If you happen to have a student that hasn't yet accessed schoolings and logged in, uh, all students have access to our platform through the synergy my access portal. And once a student gets logged in, uh, they're going to
006have a few steps to go through their course planning process. Uh, depending on the specific grade level, uh, for our older students that are, uh, planning for high school and the graduation requirements, they'll select a program of study. They'll choose the courses that satisfy or meet their requirements. Then they will submit their course plan for approval. All righty. So, I'm going to pull up this in a demo environment so you can see what the student experience will be. All righty. So, this here is a student dashboard I am uh simulating or demoing as a current sixth grade student um that is planning for their seventh grade courses. Uh for your students when they log into School Links, they do have a to-do list that lets them know what they need to do and when they
007need to complete it, including submitting their course plan. On the left hand side, students can click on where it says plan and then go to where it says course planner to access their course plan. On this page here, students will be able to view their current course plan and historical course plans that they've worked on in the past. With this being the first year, all of your students districtwide will only see this first course plan. Within this page, we're going to click complete plan or start plan for your students to begin the course planning process. Okay. So, in this example, I am a sixth grade Gunston Middle uh student who is planning for my seventh grade requirements. At the top of the screen, your student will see the different subject area requirements represented by these
008icons for which they're going to plan. As students review, revisit, and work on their course plan year-over-year, they'll be able to see what they need to work on or update in their course plan from this page. To get started, your student will click let's go and then this will kickstart our course planning process. So for our sixth grade students that are planning for seventh, they're going to go through each requirement and add the appropriate courses for each subject area. For example, we're going to start with our English course. And it shows me here that I have one course that's required for English. And I can click view requirement details to get more information about the course that I need to select. For each course plan, we have what's called a sequence that is already automatically
009applied to ensure that the student has the correct bank or bucket of courses to select from. To add a course to my uh English requirement, I'll click on add another course. Then I'll have a drop- down menu of the available courses for in this case seventh grade. As a student, I'll click on the course that applies for this requirement. And once I've selected the right course, it's going to change this bar here at the top from red to green, letting me know that I've met this requirement for my planning. From there, in the top right hand corner, your student can click continue to navigate to the next requirement. So here I'll play uh plan for history and add the appropriate course turns from red to green. Then I'll click continue. Same process for math. And
010one quick note is if a student does have a course that does have any high school credit, you'll notice here at the bottom, it'll have one of one credits uh included. From here, I'll advance on to my science requirement where I will rinse and repeat that same process. Red to green, ready to move forward. Now, for my particular course plan, uh my health and PE requirement already has the appropriate course prepopulated and pre-selected. Um and it's because uh for your seventh grade students at this particular school, that is the required course for this requirement. All right. So, this requirement is green. I'll click continue. And then this is where I'll go in and select my electives. So for my elective courses, students can choose four semester electives or two fullyear electives or they can choose
011two semester and one one year long elective. So to add the course, I'll follow that same process I did with the other subject areas. Click add another course. Then I'll choose my first course option. And then down here at the bottom, you'll notice a box that says add one more alternate course. Within School Links, we automatically include these alternates for the students electives. This way, if their first choice is not available, they can click add one more alternate course and they can include their backup options in case that first choice is not available for scheduling. Okay. Now, when students add their alternate, we will automatically prioritize based on the order that they've selected their alternates. So for example, if uh when we get to the scheduling process, if advanced band full year is not available,
012then my first replacement course, my first second choice uh will be that American Sign Language one. All right. And then I need to add one more course here and then add my alternates. Okay. So with those courses selected, my requirement has turned from red to green and now I can click continue. [snorts] >> Michael, could I share something? >> Yeah, absolutely. So, I just wanted to uh mention that uh middle school counselors will be teaching your students how to do this. So, uh in both group lessons and individually, so they'll work with students to go through this process uh to select the appropriate courses. Um so, they will not be expected to do this on their own, especially this first year as this is a new process for our whole community, staff, parents, and students.
013All right, thanks Heather. All right, so once the student has gone in and selected their courses for each requirement, and again this is a sixth grade example. We'll look at a um seventh grade plan uh here in a moment. On the left hand side, I'll have a green check mark if I have planned the appropriate courses for each requirement. I'll be able to see all of the courses that I plan for, in this case, next year for seventh grade. Down at the bottom, I can see uh in the bottom lefthand corner where it says credits, I can see if any of the courses that I have in my plan do count for high school credit. And then just to the right of that, I can see of the requirements that I have on my plan.
014So, English, history, math, and so on. How many of those requirements I've satisfied with the courses that I've planned in the top right hand corner very quickly, students can view any of the goals that they've already set in schoolings, such as their post-secary goals, perhaps a career goal that they may have already set to see how their course plan aligns with those goals that they've created. And if a student would like to download a printable copy of their course plan, they can use this export option in the top right and generate a printable version or a PDF version of that course plan. One of the most important parts for your student is going to be to use our submission button in the bottom right hand corner. So once the course plan is ready for a
015counselor to fully review, I'll click on submit plan in the bottom right hand corner. And then as a student, I can type in a note if I have additional questions about my plan or need additional support. And then here I'll click submit plan to get that plan to my counselor for them to review and approve. Okay. So again, as a quick note, this is what the workflow will look like for a sixth grade student planning for their seventh grade requirements. Now, we're going to take a quick look at a similar workflow for our seventh grade students planning for their eighth and nth grade requirements. All right. So, the access and getting to the course plan will be exactly the same for all students in any grade level. In this case, it's letting me know that
016I'm planning for 8th grade on a particular um on the advanced studies diploma for Wakefield High School. So, seventh, planning for eth. I'll click complete plan. still have a summary page here, but now you may notice that I have additional requirements that might be more applicable for what I'm planning for, in this case 8 through 12. So, one thing that is different for our students that are planning for the um 8th through 12th grade uh courses is that they're going to have this section here called programs. This is where the student can select a specialized program such as a CTE pathway um based on the schools that they're offered at and we will automatically add this as a requirement to their course plan to ensure that they add the appropriate courses. Okay, so I added
017sports medicine and athletic training. I can also see here this is a program that I favored elsewhere in school links. And then at the very top I now have a requirement that I'm going to plan against for uh sports medicine athletic training. Okay. Now, for English, as a student, I'm only expected, as a seventh grade student planning for um 8th through sorry, 8th through 9th, um I'm only expected to plan for this column here for 8th grade and then also for my 9th grade year. So, here I'll click add another course and I'll follow that same process we saw in the previous version of the course plan. Okay. Now, if the student wanted to see their um completed course plan, if they wanted to plan at beyond their 8th and 9th grade year, they can
018do so and it will track those planned courses under the future courses column indicated here in purple. For our seventh grade students that are planning for 8th and 9th, this bar will remain red until they add these additional courses. And they will work with their counselor to make sure that they have the appropriate courses here at least for eighth and 9th grade. Okay. I would follow that same workflow and process to add my courses in for eth and nth grade um for uh history and my social sciences. and I can use the search bar here to add the appropriate course. Michael, can I pause and ask one question of translation? There was a question about um translating this page. Um so you'll notice in the top middle of Michael's page, it says English. That is
019a dropown that it'll automatically um translate this page um for students or for parents. Um however, course titles will would not be translated. So, for example, if looking under ninth grade, you see world history and geography, that's going to stay in English. But, thank you, Michael. But the explanation of the requirements in the section will be translated into any language that's needed. Oh, it did change. Never mind. [laughter] Quite fancy. Okay, stand corrected. >> So, yeah, now you can even take those courses that are uh in English by default and you can translate them into the language that you need. transparently. My Spanish is not that great. Working on it, so I'm going to put this back in English. Okay. And here we are. All right. So, same workflow and process. I'm either working with
020my counselor or I'm starting this process and I'm adding in the courses that satisfy each requirement. I'll repeat the same process for math. And I'm intentionally leaving these um as red or not completing the requirements just so I can model a point here in a moment. One of the unique requirements uh because you all are in the state of Virginia uh is going to be your sequential electives. So I'll take a moment to slow down here. Essentially, those sequential electives are electives uh that have to be taken um backtoback or in order within a certain requirement. And so, um for example, if I add for 10th grade, let me go to 11th. If I click under the 11th grade column, I'll see this section here that says courses in progression. This will let me know
021that somewhere in course planner I already have a course that is helping me meet my sequential elective requirement and the next course that I would need to take in that sequence would be one of these options here at the top you may see this blue text here and this one here says view one credit not shown that's letting me know that that art one course that I have somewhere in course planner is part of my elective the requirement. So here when I click add another course I can select one of these courses that are in sequence and then it will change this bar like it does for the others from red to green letting me know that I've satisfied the requirement and now I have that art one and my ceramics one that are meeting
022the uh sequential elective requirement. All right. Earlier I added and selected my program for sports medicine and athletic training. So that automatically created the requirement for me to add the courses for that particular SAT pathway or career. And so here I can add in the appropriate courses. Sports medicine sports medicine 2 and then from red to green. All right. Then with our electives bucket, the electives are kind of like the catch all for any remaining credits I have space for in the course selection or in my course planner. To add my electives, I would follow that same process. Add another course and select from the menu of options or use the search bar to find the course that I'm needing. If I click continue, it's going to bring me to my alternate courses requirement. And
023this is where I can add in for next year for 8th grade my backup options in case my first choices for my electives um are not available. Again, with our alternate courses that we add in, these are going to be prioritized in the order that the student selects them. So, my first choice would be uh guitar. My second choice would be jazz band. My third choice would be advanced course. All righty. Similar to what we saw on the other page, once I click continue, there we go. It's going to bring me to a summary page. The um sixth grade students planning for seventh are going to have a little bit of a different view than our students that are in seventh grade planning for eighth and 9th. Within the student's course plan, they'll still have
024the requirement checkboxes here on the lefth hand side letting them know which requirements they have planned for, but now they'll have a column for each grade year that they're planning for. So before we just saw a column for eighth grade or sorry for seventh grade and now we have a column for each grade year here with the courses that we selected in our course planning process. One feature that's very helpful for your students and also the counselors that are supporting them is if I'm in here course planning and a particular course um maybe I selected something for 10th grade and I wanted to move it to 11th um you have a drag and drop feature where the students can click on a particular course and they can drag it to the correct and appropriate grade
025We put guard rails in place to let students know if there are any errors or issues with their course plan, if there's a missing prerequisite course that they need to take, and if there's a course that needs particular approval, if the student's trying to take something out of sequence. All right, as before, the last step here is to submit my course plan. And in this example, I have errors in my course plan, which is to be expected because students are only planning eth and 9th in this case. And as a student, I can review the errors that I'm seeing on my course plan or I can go ahead and submit that course plan with those errors and then work with my counselor to have those errors um adjusted or reviewed. All right. So, two different
026perspectives from the student side, what they're going through, what they're working um on with their counselor. And now I'm going to shift over. There we go. And talk about you. I want to save this last little bit of training for um how you as a parent and guardian can support and um help your student with this course planning process. All right. First and foremost, um how do I access my parent and guardian account? How do I get logged in? Uh within school links, you have a link. Let me remove these other pages. Okay. Uh you have a website called app.schoolinks.com. This is our page to get access to school links. Your very first time going to this page. If you're using a Google email address, as in if you're sharing that with the district and
027that's your um rostered email address with the district or with your school site, then you'll be able to log in with Google on the right hand side. For all other email address options, the Yahoo, the um oops, excuse me, uh the iCloud options, um for all other email addresses, you'll need to go through our forgot password workflow. So on that same page, you'll click forgot password. You'll type in your email address that is on file with the district and then you'll click reset password. Then in a few minutes, we will send you um instructions on how to reset your or set your own password. And then from that point, you log in with your email and your password on this page. Okay. So quick summary. If you're using a Gmail address, login with Google. If
028it's not a Gmail address, use forgot password. All righty. So for course planner um we mentioned the milestones earlier. Um student has to submit counselor approves. Then you as a parent and guardian will get an automated email that says hey time to acknowledge the course plan. This then leads me to our email notification. When you get this email, this is similar to what that email will look like in your inbox. It will have a direct link to that student's course plan. When you click on this link, a second. There we go. When you click on the link, you'll be brought to a page that looks similar to this. And in this case, it'll say course plan acknowledgement. And you can disregard this deadline. This is just for my demo environment to be able to model
029this for you. Um, but it will have the deadline by which you need to approve the student's course plan. Sorry, acknowledge the student's course plan. On the right hand side, you can click review plan. And here you'll see the date that the student submitted, the date that the counselor approved, and then to view the student's course plan itself, you can click on this link where it says view course plan. You'll be able to you will be able to see the courses that the student had planned if there are any errors. And then once you've reviewed the plan, you're going to acknowledge that particular plan by typing in your digital signature. From here, you'll click approve. And then that will complete the process for the student submission, counselor approval, and the parent guardian approval. Okay, this
030is the most common workflow because it goes to your email, you get a direct link, click the link, view course plan, you sign off and acknowledge that you've uh viewed that course plan. Okay, so that's option one. Let's say for one reason or another you don't see that email in your inbox or maybe it was a while since you received the email and you don't want to fumble through and dig through your uh inbox. Then while logged into school links, you have a second and also a third option to view that student's course plan and acknowledge. All right, give me one second here and I'll show you what this looks like from the parent and guardian perspective. Okay. So, let's say you don't get the email, but you want to go in and make sure
031that you've done your part um for approving a student's course plan um or acknowledging a student's course plan. When you're logged into School Links, on the left hand side, you will have parent and guardian to-dos. And there will be a to-do listed here to uh sign off or acknowledge the students plan. If you click that link, it's going to take you directly to that same plan page that we reviewed before. All right. Again, most common is to get the email, click the link, go directly to the plan. The backup option is to navigate to it from your to-do list. And if for some reason you don't get the email, you don't see it on your to-do list, I'm going to give you one third option. If you click on my students and then locate your
032student's name from your dashboard. All right. You have this uh drop down here where it says case file section. You'll click on the dropown and then under planning you'll go to personalized plans. And then from here they have access to that same plan that we saw in the other two methods. And then you can view and acknowledge. All righty. As we're landing this plane here, I don't want to leave you without any uh support. And so directly in the platform uh when you're in school links, no matter what page you're on, if you have questions about where to go to review or acknowledge the student's course plan in the top right hand corner, no matter what page you're on, you can click on this question mark and this is going to take you to our
033help center articles that gives you guidance on how to use the different features in school links including the course plan and personalized plans. We also in the bottom right hand corner we have a built-in AI agent that will be able to help and support with questions you may have in real time. And as an added layer of support, you can always type in talk to a person. And then we have a dedicated customer uh support team that's available during regular business hours to help and support you with any questions you may have. All righty. With that, that covers the student workflow. That covers how you as a parent and guardian can be involved in that conversation and acknowledge your student's course plan. You have three different options to be able to do so. And I
034think we have a little bit of time for Q&A. So, Heather, I will turn it over to you if there's any questions that haven't already been uh answered. Yes, I've beenve been answering many throughout this. Thank you all for your participation and engagement, you know, with the platform and with this um new tool that we're using. Um Michael, there is one about from Jenny After about each parent having their own account for multiple students and or um one parent per student. Could if you could talk about how to view multiple students um under one account. because every parent or guardian who has an email address registered with APS has their own school links login. Um you should be able to view all of if you have two kids, three kids, however many kids you have
035in APS, you log into your account and you should be able to view view all your students. >> Yeah. Um let me get back into this environment here. Double checking to make sure my screen is sharing. It is lovely. All right. And there we go. Okay. Um so the first part of that if um I guess guess I guess it's both parts. Um if you're a parent and guardian and you have multiple students, which is very common. I'm a dad of two myself. um here in the top in the center when you're in um your schoolings dashboard all the students that you're connected to will show in this dropdown. Okay, so uh in this case I have John Ael and Margaret Bruce. Um and if I click on either one of these students I'll be
036able to see their information separately. And if I wanted to go back in and switch between both my students or my kids, I can quickly do so from this uh drop down. Okay. Um, if you have students that are both in course planning grades, if you will, uh, 6th through 11th, you'll get a separate email for each one when their course plan is ready for review. Okay, let's answer some more of these live while we can. Um, so there's a question about will students be able to select math courses at this time? I seem to remember that not being an option pending placement info provided during the summer and previous years. So, the math office recommends uh courses for your students later in the year based on how they do this year. So, it's a
037little early for your student to maybe know exactly where they're going to go um for next year in math. So, schooling the course planning is a planning tool. So, the students can still go in and select a math course that they anticipate taking or hope to take. it doesn't guarantee that that's the math class they're going to take. Um, but it is fine for them to select one and just know that in the spring later when the math office um releases their recommendations that the course could change for the students. >> All right. And then the next one, Heather, uh, what if parents don't approve? Uh, we'd like the child or we would like our child to take different courses. How is that done? Yeah, absolutely. So, this is really where your involvement is key.
038So, even a student makes the plan, the counselor approves in terms of they're meeting all the requirements, they have seven courses. Um, but then the next piece is for the parent to be able to review that plan and if they're see things that they want that they would hope would be different to have that conversation with your student um and with the school counselor if need be to reach out, have that conversation. Um, again, it's what a student chooses is not the guaranteed plan they're going to have. it's their idea, um, their hope. Um, but of course there will be some editing that goes on, you know, with after conversations with their school counselor or with their parent and guardian. Okay. So each so school course planners open for all students in the district. Each
039school is has a different timeline of when they're going into classes, for example, to uh teach students how to do this, when they're pulling students um individually to meet with students. So, I wouldn't worry if you log in and you don't see a plan yet. That's okay. This is happening over the next two months for all students. But I would if you're curious and eager, you know, feel free to reach out to your student school counselor and ask, you know, what's what's the timeline? You know, when are we going to start working on this? um because they all have a plan and we'll be if they're not haven't communicated it already I'm sure it's information is coming very soon. Um this one's uh a little bit of a side quest from course planner, but in
040which grade do students start seeing videos about colleges uh as early as sixth grade? they can go in, explore, learn about colleges, see which ones are out there, uh which offering or which options are um ones that they might be interested in. Um and even take uh virtual reality college tours. We cover that in other sessions. You >> answer that next question too, Michael? Yeah, I was trying to figure out where the what section of the I guess demo where there was a mention of Amazon. >> Yeah. >> And if it was guardian, then that's the parent and guardians affiliation. That's a separate part of the account. Um where a parent and guardian can say like, "Hey, I work at these companies." But I don't know if that's what Todd was seeing here. >> Okay.
041I do know as well like there um we haven't touched on this. It's a totally different piece of the platform, but there are um work-based learning opportunities and internships that students are notified about and given an opportunity to apply for within the platform. And I know the CTE office and our work voice workbased learning coordinator. Um um there are opportunities through Amazon. So I wonder if that's potentially what you were being seeing as well. I I think I could say pretty comfortably there's no spam advertisement in school links. Um so that wouldn't be the case. So, anything a student is seeing in school links is um uh something we approved to be in there or vetted to be in there by school links and it's surrounding different career opportunities um things like that. So, um
042if something concerning ever comes up, please take a screenshot and you know, feel free to email it to supportschoollinks.com or to myself um or or your student school counselor. you know, please do alert us if you see anything um that you have questions about. Will schools be proactively sharing electives information? So, I wrote this down. It has it did come up many times. So, um yes, I will ask all of the middle school teams, counseling teams to make sure that they're sharing that uh course uh offering sheet that uh for their school um whether electronically or paper version, you know, with with all students and families. All right. Uh the next one is this just a planning tool or is this how they are selecting or indicating course preference for next year? Heather, I'll let
043you take that one. >> Yeah, so it's yes, it's both. Um so it it is a planning tool. Um and you know, part of the requirements from the Virginia Department of Education is that all students um have a plan towards graduation by the time they leave middle school. And so that includes like learning about careers and different post-secary options and understanding graduation requirements and ensuring they understand how to graduate successfully. Um so we are doing that in school length creating this academic course plan for students and we're also capturing their course requests for next year. So we're kind of combining two different processes that used to happen separately in two different places. So, um, with that plan the students have, um, we're going to then take the courses they've selected for next year out of
044school links and put them into our other system, Synergy, which is where all the scheduling happens on the back end. Um, and at that point, that's when the counseling teams work on actually, uh, placing students in classes, uh, making some modifications. For example, if a student needs English language support in a class or has special education needs in a certain class, those type of modifications happen in our other system. So, um, again, just as a student would, um, fill out a course request form in the past and then submit it, it wasn't a guarantee that these are the exact classes. It was a request, I'm hoping, requesting to be in these courses. Um so if there's any uh changes that need to happen to a student's courses for the next year um that will that
045can happen um a after students go through this process um in school links. >> Okay. Um, there's a question about opting out of videos and I think that may have to do with um the videos for that are in the students news feed. >> Oh, okay. >> A separate question. Not directly opting out, but there might be some solutions that we can work on if you or your student have a specific case for not being able to view that content. >> Yeah, please reach out. um to your student school counselor with a specific question like that um or to school links support as well. We will not be using school links for summer school summer school courses. So again that that if a student is enrolling in summer school they'll do that um the same
046way they have previously. However, and I I think Michael might have shown this but um a student's course history does come into school links. So, as a you know, as your student progresses through APS and revisits their academic plan every year, they'll see the courses they took last year now showing up as, oh, I completed these courses. And so, if there's a summer school course they completed, that will also show up in a student's plan. Um, so it'll be recorded and they can see that they've done that, but they won't be using school links to enroll or sign up for summer school courses. No. I'm not sure what EIP is. Yes, I'm not sure what that is. Trius, I'm sorry if um please maybe reach out to your student school counselor. That might be a
047something school specific. I'm not sure what that is. Um how flexible are these paths? feels like a ton of undue pressure to map out a long-term career path in middle school. Very flexible. Again, these are not set in stone. The idea is that they are flexible. They are revisited each year as a student learns more about themselves, their interests, takes different courses, you know, thinks about their future that they can revisit um and revise their plan. That is absolutely what should be happening every year. And that's also why we um uh decided to just have our sixth graders think about seventh grade. They don't need to think all the way through graduation yet. And our seventh graders just think about 8th grade and then 9th grade. And the reason why we chose them to also
048think about at least one year of high school was because that there are certain uh CTE classes, career and technical education classes or um certain um um internships or opportunities that um require students to take classes in nth grade that they that they we want them to know about. So, and not wait till 11th grade and they realize, oh shoot, I didn't know that I should have taken this class as a 10th grader and now I can't um you know get through all of these classes in cosmetology that I wanted to to be able to have the certificate when I graduate. Things like that. Um again, these are all things your school counselors know a lot about and they can guide students guide students through these conversations, but that's the idea. >> All right. [snorts]
049Uh, let's see. I kind of read through this next one. Um, I've opted out of schooling's daily emails. Will these emails resume once I have we have to verify things? Um, don't want schooling advice or opportunities. Um, being forced to use since I'm being forced to use this application, I want to only be alerted on action items required for my students enrollment. Uh, can you confirm I will get action item emails um despite being opted out of other marketing emails? Uh, the first thing I want to make sure that we're both clear on is that we do not send marketing emails of any kind, shape, or form. The emails that you would get from School Links um, from [email protected] are things related to activities or things your students are participating in, messages from counselors that
050may need your attention, or reminders from upcoming uh, to-dos such as um, acknowledging or reviewing a student's um, uh, course plan. Uh, in terms of opting out of the daily emails, uh, let me go in here and I'm going to resume the screen share really quickly. Okay, see we're getting low on time here. >> Just make an announcement for anyone who's joining for the next session. We're still wrapping up the Q&A from our first session. So, um, please just bear with us. Okay, I'll choose this environment here. Um, but in the top right hand corner where you go to more settings and then under account settings, uh, here under notifications, this is where you can choose how often uh, you're being emailed. So like if you want that immediate notification, a daily batch, or weekly
051batch. Um, I would not recommend um I would not recommend like uh spam foldering or blocking that [email protected] if that's what she meant by opting out because that same email address is where all that information again if there's a to-do item or action item in the platform that needs your attention um it's going to come from that same email. So, um, if there's a preferred method in which you would want to be communicated with about these things, um, definitely let us know in our support team. Um, we're happy to do our best to align with what you need. Um, but yeah, that those emails come from the same email address. >> Yes. >> I'm going to there are a few more questions. I'm just going to um say at at this point to please um
052reach out to your school counselor for more information about the uh alternatives and electives choices. And again, the planning tool of school links has accounted for um the number of classes a student needs to select for the following year. But any student who has special um not special but um specific courses that they need that the counselor knows they need will ensure the student is able to take those courses. So, um, yes, please reach out if you have further questions. I'm going to pause, um, this session or pause or stop this session. We're rolling right into the next session um, at 7 o'clock. We're in the same Zoom room. So, welcome to those of you who are newly joining us. We um just wrapped up our session geared towards our rising seventh and eighth graders.
053So more of our middle school population. This session we're about to start will be focused on our rising 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th graders. So you may be a parent of an eighth grader. You are in the right place. Um as your student will be planning for high school. So this is for the high school planning. Um thank you for joining us. We'll wait a few more minutes as we um welcome more parents and guardians to the session. Again, thanks for joining us. We'll get started in a few minutes.