5 minutesXello's Completion Standards is designed to give educators a flexible way to assign and monitor student progress - from interactive Missions to adding interests and skills. Completion Standards will help you set clear expectations for what students need to accomplish, while also easily tracking their work and generating reports.
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Below is the comprehensive list of Xello 3-5 tasks that can be assigned to students. Tasks are grouped within sections to reflect the student journey in Xello.
Note: This article covers Xello's tasks. Custom tasks can be created by Xello admin to build upon existing activities. Check out Custom Tasks to learn more.
Accounts
The Account section offers key communication and accessibility features for student support. Students can add a profile or cover picture to personalize their account. They can click their avatar image to change the platform's language.
| Xello task | At a glance | About this task | Prerequisites |
|---|---|---|---|
| Log in to Xello |
Recommended grade: 3-5 On task time: 2 mins Suggested instructional time: 10 mins |
Get your students logged in to Xello. Consider using the Day 1 with Xello 3-5 checklist and presentation to help make your students' first day with Xello engaging and productive. | None |
| Profile picture |
Recommended grade: 3-5 On task time: 3 mins Suggested instructional time: 10 mins |
Students choose or upload a personalized profile picture. | None |
Back to topAbout Me
In About Me, interactive elements encourage students to record and reflect on their interests, skills, school subjects, achievements, and other characteristics. The result is a personalized dashboard that helps each student better understand their own abilities. With greater self-knowledge they grow more assured about who they are, and begin to understand how they might achieve their goals.
| Xello task | At a glance | About this task | Prerequisites |
|---|---|---|---|
| Add interests |
Recommended grade: 3-5 On task time: 1 min per interest Suggested instructional time: 20 mins |
Students identify their personal interests. They can select from predefined lists in categories like Creative Activities and Games and Hobbies, or they can enter their own. | None |
| Add skills |
Recommended grade: 4-5 On task time: 1 min per skill Suggested instructional time: 20 mins |
Students identify and rate their skills. They can select from predefined lists in categories like Hands-on and Learning, or they can enter their own. | None |
| Rank school subjects |
Recommended grade: 3 On task time: 5 mins Suggested instructional time: 30 mins |
Students rank 6 subjects in order from their most to least favorite. | None |
| Rate school subject topics |
Recommended grade: 3-5 On task time: 1 min per topic Suggested instructional time: 40 mins |
After ranking the 6 school subjects, students can rate how much they like what they're learning in each of the subjects. | Rank 6 school subjects |
| Add achievements |
Recommended grade: 4-5 On task time: 8 mins per achievement Suggested instructional time: 15 mins |
Students record accomplishments they're proud of. They pick from categories like School or Learning, Acts of Kindness, and Teamwork, and reflect on why an achievement is important to them. | None |
| Add to Storyboard |
Recommended grade: 3-5 On task time: 8 mins per story Suggested instructional time: 20 mins |
Students tell their own stories by adding photos, videos, links, or files. They pick from categories like School Projects, Hobbies or Games, and Role Models. | None |
Explore Options
In Explore Options students explore careers. Career profiles are written at a 3rd grade reading level. Short descriptions make content easy for a student to absorb, while discoverable facts, stories, and biographies help bring careers to life. Students can freely search for a career, or explore by related school subject, career group or alphabetically. Careers of interest can be “liked”, or saved, for reference later. Students come away with a better understanding of the education, training, and various pathways to each career. This knowledge helps create a foundation for future decision making and planning in middle school.
| Xello task | At a glance | About this task | Prerequisites |
|---|---|---|---|
| Like careers |
Recommended grade: 3-5 On task time: 10 mins per career Suggested instructional time: 30 mins |
Students explore and like engaging career profiles with age-appropriate information on workplaces, pay, and education. Each career also includes related facts or true stories. | None |
Goals & Plans
In Goals & Plans, students are introduced to the concept of goal setting. With a short, character-driven video they learn why goal setting is important and the fundamentals of proper goal setting. After this tutorial they’re able to fill in their own goals and describe why it matters, and are then prompted with possible steps they can take to help achieve that goal.
| Xello task | At a glance | About this task | Prerequisites |
|---|---|---|---|
| Add goals |
Recommended grade: 4-5 On task time: 10 mins per goal Suggested instructional time: 20 mins |
Students set and track goals, as well as reflect on why their goals matter to them. The How to Set Goals video provides guidance to students. | None |
| Add future jobs |
Recommended grade: 3-5 On task time: 1 min per job Suggested instructional time: 20 mins |
Students add jobs that they're interested in trying in the future. | None |
Lessons
In Xello 3-5, Lessons are called Missions. These short, interactive digital lessons serve as ready-made curriculum to help you teach social-emotional skills and key concepts in a fun and engaging way. By completing these story-driven missions, students get a deeper understanding of their interests, skills, and the concept of future success.
| Xello task | At a glance | About this task | Prerequisites |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mission: Interests |
Recommended grade: 3 On task time: 15 mins Suggested instructional time: 50 mins |
In this lesson, students explore the importance of interests and the link between interests and activities they can do now and when they're adults. They also reflect on one of their interests. To support your students even more, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson. |
Add 3 interests |
| Mission: Managing big feelings |
Recommended grade: 3 On task time: 15 mins Suggested instructional time: 50 mins |
In this lesson, students identify strong feelings in others and in themselves, consider why they occur, and explore strategies they can use to respond. To support your students even more, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson. |
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| Mission: School subjects |
Recommended grade: 3 On task time: 15 mins Suggested instructional time: 50 mins |
In this lesson, students learn to connect what they're learning in school to opportunities outside of school, reflect positively on the subjects and topics they are learning in school, and identify careers that use their favorite subject on the job. To support your students even more, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson. |
Rank 6 school subjects |
| Mission: Why people work |
Recommended grade: 3 On task time: 15 mins Suggested instructional time: 50 mins |
In this lesson, students learn what working in a job means and identify the reasons people work. They also explore some of their work preferences and reflect on how a career they like could help them meet their work goals. To support your students even more, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson. |
Like 1 career |
| Mission: Skills |
Recommended grade: 4 On task time: 15 mins Suggested instructional time: 40 mins |
In this lesson, students define skills and their importance; link skills with activities at home, in the community, and on the job; explore transferable skills; and reflect on their own skills. To support your students even more, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson. |
Add 3 skills |
| Mission: Tools for success |
Recommended grade: 4 On task time: 15 mins Suggested instructional time: 50 mins |
In this lesson, students explore the skills and habits that can help them succeed at school and identify the benefits of working hard to develop these tools. Students also reflect on success tools they’ve used in and out of school and connect how these tools can help them do their best in other parts of their lives and eventually at work. To support your students even more, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson. |
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| Mission: Goal setting |
Recommended grade: 4 On task time: 15 mins Suggested instructional time: 50 mins |
In this lesson, students learn how to set and stay on track with their goals when faced with various obstacles. They learn to identify the characteristics of a good goal, explore potential goal obstacles and ways to overcome them, and reflect on one of their own goals. To support your students even more, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson. |
Add 1 goal |
| Mission: Problem solving |
Recommended grade: 4 On task time: 15 mins Suggested instructional time: 50 mins |
In this lesson, students identify the steps and skills for solving a problem and reflect on a time they solved a problem. Students learn the importance of brainstorming options, having a flexible plan, and being prepared for setbacks on the path to a solution. To support your students even more, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson. |
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| Mission: Facing big challenges |
Recommended grade: 5 On task time: 15 mins Suggested instructional time: 50 mins |
In this lesson, students learn about the importance of perseverance when faced with challenges. They define perseverance and the qualities that help someone persevere, uncover the importance perseverance plays in what they do and achieve, explore ways to demonstrate perseverance, and describe examples of perseverance from their own lives. To support your students even more, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson. |
Add 1 achievement |
| Mission: Learning and future success |
Recommended grade: 5 On task time: 15 mins Suggested instructional time: 40 mins |
In this lesson, students explore the importance of lifelong learning, link learning activities with their perks, and investigate how a commitment to keep learning can help in a career they like. To support your students even more, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson. |
Like 3 careers |
| Mission: Learning paths |
Recommended grade: 5 On task time: 15 mins Suggested instructional time: 50 mins |
In this lesson, students identify types of education and training pathways to prepare for careers, match types of training with certain careers, and understand the importance of preparing for a job. To support your students even more, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson. |
Like 3 careers |
| Mission: Starting a business |
Recommended grade: 5 On task time: 15 mins Suggested instructional time: 50 mins |
In this lesson, students learn how entrepreneurs start a business to solve a problem, match entrepreneurial skills to business startup tasks, and consider the risks and rewards of starting their own imaginary business. To support your students even more, check out the Lesson resources for this lesson. |
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