What is Completion Standards?

Xello Admin

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

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 school, college, or trust requirements 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.

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 utilise guidance 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 CV.	Matchmaker quiz Add skills CV
Explore Options In Explore Options students discover and understand the wide array of possibilities available to them after secondary school. It offers in-depth profiles on careers, courses and apprenticeships, and colleges and universities, allowing students to explore educational paths and potential job opportunities, including local work-related 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 & universities Saved courses & apprenticeships
Goals & Plans Goals & Plans empowers students to define, set, and track personal and academic goals, aligning with their post-secondary school aspirations. It provides robust tools to support these plans, including recommending education pathways.	Make plans Set goals
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 universities, and interests, Xello provides a completely personalised, 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 CV 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 organised digital collections of work. Students can highlight the self-exploration and planning they’ve done in Xello and add their own artefacts, like photos, videos, and journal entries. A Portfolio project custom task can include talent, interests, and career portfolios.	Choose a Xello portfolio
Coming soon Guidance meeting Guidance 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 organised and on track, tasks assigned in Completion Standards 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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