What is Completion Standards?

Xello Admin

Xello K-12

5 minutes

Lessons are now Completion Standards! Everything you used to do on the Lessons page can now be done in Completion Standards. But there’s more! With Completion Standards, you can track student progress across over 90 tasks. This goes well beyond lessons to include everything from career assessments, saved options, goals, and plans. This feature is flexible and can be tailored to meet specific requirements. Students also get a clear view of assigned tasks and deadlines with their own to-do list with a progress tracker on their dashboard.

Educator account on the Completion Standards page. The Matchmaker quiz modal is open and is being assigned to multiple grades, with a due date

Student dashboard in Xello. The To-Do list is open. The student has completed several tasks and has a couple in review

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Types of tasks

Completion Standards offer a comprehensive suite of tasks, providing flexibility to track student progress across a wide range of activities. These include built-in Xello activities such as career assessments, saving options, setting goals, and developing plans. This feature also enables you to create and assign custom tasks tailored to specific districtrequirements that Xello may not address.

Below are examples of the types of tasks available to assign. For a complete list of tasks, check out List of tasks in Xello 6-12 or List of tasks in Xello 3-5.

Task type and description	Sample tasks
Account The Account section offers key communication and accessibility features for student support. Students can add a personal email for continued access after graduation and change the platform's language. This section also supports vital communication, enabling educators to utilize advisement notes and two-way messaging with students and parents.	Log in to Xello Personal email
About Me About Me helps students gain a deeper understanding of themselves and how their unique qualities connect to future possibilities. Through interactive assessments like Matchmaker, Skills Lab, and Personality Style, students uncover their interests, skills, and learning preferences. They can also document their experiences to build a comprehensive profile, which can then be easily shared and transformed into a resume.	Matchmaker quiz Add skills Resume
Explore Options In Explore Options students discover and understand the wide array of possibilities available to them after high school. It offers in-depth profiles on careers, majors, and colleges, allowing students to explore educational paths and potential job opportunities, including local work-based learning experiences, if enabled. Students can also save and reflect on their interests to ensure their choices align with their evolving plans.	Saved careers Saved colleges Saved majors
Goals & Plans Goals & Plans empowers students to define, set, and track personal and academic goals, aligning with their post-high school aspirations. It provides robust tools to support these plans, including recommending education pathways, managing college applications, exploring scholarships, and strategically building a 4-year course plan to meet graduation requirements.	Make plans Set goals 4-year course plan Save scholarships
Lessons Lessons are interactive, fully digital, and turn-key. Built-in curriculum and reflective activities help your students build durable skills and knowledge employers value. By automatically bringing in students’ own saved careers, colleges, and interests, Xello provides a completely personalized, seamless, and relevant learning experience.	Discover learning pathways lesson Getting experience lesson Career path choices lesson

Custom tasks

Custom tasks can either build upon existing Xello activities or go beyond them. These tasks can also be configured to require educator’s approval. This means that once the task has been completed it will be marked as In review until it has been reviewed and approved by an educator. For submissions, students can upload files, provide text entries, select a Xello portfolio, or mark the task as complete.

Custom task type and description	Submission options
Custom lesson Custom lessons guide students to build upon a task in Xello, like updating their resume with new information. Custom lessons can include prerequisites. This ensures that students complete specific tasks in Xello before starting it.	Attach a file Enter a text response Attach file AND enter a text response Attach file OR enter a text response Mark as complete
Custom activity Custom activities guide students to track actions that might be done outside of Xello, like creating a cover letter or a personal profile for an application. Custom activities cannot include prerequisites.	Attach a file Enter a text response Attach file AND enter a text response Attach file OR enter a text response Mark as complete
Portfolios Portfolios are organized digital collections of work. Students can highlight the self-exploration and planning they’ve done in Xello and add their own artifacts, like photos, videos, and journal entries. A Portfolio project custom task can include talent, interests, and career portfolios.	Choose a Xello portfolio
Coming soon Advisement meeting Advisement meetings are meetings between students and educators on topics like postsecondary planning and academic success. Records can be shared with other educators, students, and/or parents/guardians. You can configure the number of meetings students need to have in specific categories.	A read-only task for students that will be marked as complete once records of the configured meeting(s) have been submitted by educators.

How students access assigned tasks

To help students stay organized and on track, tasks assigned in Completion Standards for Xello 6-12 will show under the To-do list on the student dashboard. The dashboard is the first page students see when they log in to Xello.

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Coming soon! For students in Xello 3-5, their tasks will also show front and center on their dashboard under the To do list.

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