8 minutesXello's Completion Standards is designed to give educators a flexible way to assign and monitor student progress across more than 90 activities—from interactive lessons and assessments 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.
Meanwhile, for students, the To do list offers an
Below is the comprehensive list of Xello 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 personal email for continued access after graduation and change the platform's language. This section also supports vital communication, enabling educators to
| Xello task | At a glance | About this task | Prerequisites |
|---|---|---|---|
| Log in to Xello |
Recommended year: 7-14 On task time: 3 mins Suggested instructional time: 10 mins |
Get your students logged in to Xello. Consider using the Day 1 with Xello checklist and presentation to help make your students' first day with Xello engaging and productive. | None |
| Personal email |
Recommended year: 12-14 On task time: 2 mins Suggested instructional time: 10 mins |
It's recommended that students add their personal email to Xello before they leave school. This will allow them to reset their own password and grant them access to Xello once single sign-on (SSO) with their school is no longer accessible. | None |
Back to topAbout 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
| Xello task | At a glance | About this task | Prerequisites |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matchmaker quiz |
Recommended year: 7-10 On task time: 10 mins Suggested instructional time: 30 mins |
The 39-question career-match assessment matches students' interests directly to careers, allowing students to see why a career is a good match for their interests or not. |
Set your after high school goal |
| Personality Style quiz |
Recommended year: 10-12 On task time: 8 mins Suggested instructional time: 20 mins |
The 28-question personality profile assessment (based on the Holland Code) helps students better understand who they are and how that relates to individual careers. |
Complete the Matchmaker quiz |
| Mission Complete quiz |
Recommended year: 12-14 On task time: 10 mins Suggested instructional time: 25 mins |
The final 49 questions of the career-match interest assessment will refine career matches and give students the best results. |
Complete the Matchmaker quiz Complete the Personality Style quiz |
| Learning Style quiz |
Recommended year: 8-9 On task time: 5 mins Suggested instructional time: 20 mins |
The 20-question Learning Style assessment helps students understand different ways of learning and how they best learn. |
None |
| Skills Lab quiz |
Recommended year: 10-14 On task time: 10 mins Suggested instructional time: 40 mins |
The 35-question Skills Lab assessment helps students in year 10 and up understand career fit based on how frequently they’d like to use certain skills. |
None |
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My next step goal |
Recommended year: 7-14 On task time: 2 mins Suggested instructional time: 15 mins |
Students select 1 of 3 goals for after school or college: Not sure yet, More education or training, or Alternate route. Students can always change their selection. |
None |
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Favourite clusters |
Recommended year: 7-14 On task time: 3 mins per cluster Suggested instructional time: 40 mins |
Students review the career clusters and save their favourites. |
None |
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CV |
Recommended year: 11-14 On task time: 15 mins Suggested instructional time: 30 mins |
Students take the work they’ve already done in Xello, including skills, interests, and experiences, and quickly turn it into a professional CV, which they can download and share. |
None |
| Work experiences |
Recommended year: 10-14 On task time: 7 mins per experience Suggested instructional time: 10 mins |
Students log their paid and unpaid work experiences in their Experiences timeline, reflecting on what they liked, what they found challenging, and what they learned. |
None |
| Volunteer hours |
Recommended year: 7-14 On task time: 7 mins per experience Suggested instructional time: 15 mins |
Students log their volunteer and community service participation in their Experiences timeline—including hours completed—reflecting on what they liked, what they found challenging, and what they learned. |
None |
| Education experiences |
Recommended year: 7-14 On task time: 7 mins per experience Suggested instructional time: 10 mins |
Students log their educational achievements in their Experiences timeline, reflecting on what they liked, what they found challenging, and what they learned. |
None |
| Life experiences |
Recommended year: 7-14 On task time: 7 mins per experience Suggested instructional time: 10 mins |
Students log life events—such as awards, trips, or performances—in their Experiences timeline, reflecting on what they liked, what they found challenging, and what they learned. |
None |
| Add skills |
Recommended year: 7-14 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 Communication & Teamwork, Leadership, and Information & Analysis, or they can enter their own. |
None |
| Add interests |
Recommended year: 7-14 On task time: 1 min per interest Suggested instructional time: 15 mins |
Students identify their personal interests. They can select from predefined lists in categories like Science & Technology, Arts & Culture, and Clubs & Organisations, or they can enter their own. |
None |
Explore Options
In Explore Options students discover and understand the wide array of possibilities available to them after
| Xello task | At a glance | About this task | Prerequisites |
|---|---|---|---|
| Save careers |
Recommended year: 7-14 On task time: 10 mins per career Suggested instructional time: 30 mins |
Students explore and save easy-to-understand career profiles with key information on education, workplaces, wages, and job outlook. When students save a career, they are prompted to complete additional investigation, rating, and reflection. |
None |
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Save colleges & universities |
Recommended year: 10-14 On task time: 10 mins per college or university Suggested instructional time: 30 mins |
Students explore and save engaging, detailed college and university profiles that include key facts on enrolment, facilities, and courses. An interactive map lets them see what’s nearby. |
None |
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Save courses & apprenticeships |
Recommended year: 10-14 On task time: 7 mins per programme Suggested instructional time: 20 mins |
Students explore and save course and apprenticeship profiles that include applying info, related careers, and similar courses. |
None |
Goals & Plans
Goals & Plans empowers students to define, set, and track personal and academic goals, aligning with their
| Xello task | At a glance | About this task | Prerequisites |
|---|---|---|---|
| Make plans |
Recommended year: 7-14 On task time: 10 mins per plan Suggested instructional time: 30 mins |
Students explore different pathway options to build plans for after sixth form or college. |
None |
| Set goals |
Recommended year: 7-14 On task time: 7 mins per goal Suggested instructional time: 20 mins |
Students set and track personal, academic, and other types of short- and long-term goals. |
None |
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,
| Xello task | At a glance | About this task | Prerequisites |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interests lesson |
Recommended year: 7 or 8 On task time: 10 mins Suggested instructional time: 30 mins |
In this lesson, students will reflect on some of the interests they have saved in Xello's interest inventory, explore the link between interests and various careers, and investigate how their interests match up with a career they like. To support your students even further, check out this lesson's resources: |
Add at least 5 interests Save at least 3 careers |
| School subjects at work lesson |
Recommended year: 7 or 8 On task time: 10 mins Suggested instructional time: 30 mins |
In this lesson, students will relate school subjects to various tasks, reflect on their favourite school subject, and explore ways to use their favourite school subject in a career that that interests them. To support your students even further, check out this lesson's resources: |
Save at least 3 careers |
| Time management lesson |
Recommended year: 7 or 8 On task time: 15 mins Suggested instructional time: 35 mins |
In this lesson, students will explain why time management is important in school and on the job, create a time budget to assess how they currently manage their time, and explore ways to improve their time management skills. To support your students even further, check out this lesson's resources: |
Save at least 3 careers |
| Learning styles lesson |
Recommended year: 8 or 9 On task time: 10 mins Suggested instructional time: 30 mins |
In this lesson, students will investigate visual, auditory, and tactile learning styles, and explore how understanding their own learning style can help them in school and on the job. To support your students even further, check out this lesson's resources: |
Complete the Learning Style quiz Save at least 3 careers |
| Discover learning pathways lesson |
Recommended year: 8 or 9 On task time: 10 mins Suggested instructional time: 30 mins |
In this lesson, students will investigate the pathway options for after sixth form or college, explore the pathways to various careers, and evaluate the pathways they could take to a career that interests them. To support your students even further, check out this lesson's resources: |
Save at least 3 careers |
| Biases and career choices lesson |
Recommended year: 8 or 9 On task time: 10 mins Suggested instructional time: 30 mins |
In this lesson, students will identify biases of gender, ethnicity, ability, and class in the workplace and explore how biases can influence career choices. To support your students even further, check out this lesson's resources: |
None |
| Skills lesson |
Recommended year: 9 or 10 On task time: 15 mins Suggested instructional time: 35 mins |
In this lesson, students will explore the skills required to perform various activities, as well as the link between their skills and career goals. To support your students even further, check out this lesson's resources: |
Save at least 3 careers |
| Explore career matches lesson |
Recommended year: 9 or 10 On task time: 15 mins Suggested instructional time: 35 mins |
In this lesson, students will investigate central, secondary, and other aspects of the career match assessment and explore how the aspects relate to careers. They also reflect on their results and explore the aspects for a career that interests them. To support your students even further, check out this lesson's resources: |
Complete the Matchmaker quiz Save at least 3 careers |
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Transition to FE lesson |
Recommended year: 11 or 12 On task time: 10 mins Suggested instructional time: 30 mins |
In this lesson, students explore the ways that studying at college or sixth form will differ from school. They investigate their further education options and consider ways to make a smooth transition to further education. To support your students even further, check out this lesson's resources: |
Save at least 5 interests |
| Self-advocacy lesson |
Recommended year: 8 or 9 On task time: 10 mins Suggested instructional time: 30 mins |
In this lesson, students will understand the concept of self-advocacy, identify situations where they may need to advocate for themselves or issues they may want to advocate for, identify skills and behaviours required to effectively advocate for themselves, and explore ways they can advocate for themselves in school, in the community, at home, and in a career. To support your students even further, check out this lesson's resources: |
None |
| Personality styles lesson |
Recommended year: 10 or 11 On task time: 15 mins Suggested instructional time: 35 mins |
In this lesson, students will investigate personality styles, and explore how their own personality style can help them at home, school, and work. To support your students even further, check out this lesson's resources: |
Complete the Personality Style quiz Save at least 3 careers |
| Getting experience lesson |
Recommended year: 10 or 11 On task time: 10 mins Suggested instructional time: 30 mins |
In this lesson, students will explore different ways they can get work experience now. They identify several ways to get experience (such as community service/volunteerism, co-op programs, part-time jobs, and internships), and assess which type of experience is best suited to their career goals. To support your students even further, check out this lesson's resources: |
Save at least 3 careers Add at least 3 experiences to the Experiences timeline |
| Study skills and habits lesson |
Recommended year: 9 or 10 On task time: 15 mins Suggested instructional time: 35 mins |
In this lesson, students will identify skills, habits, and behaviours they need to learn successfully in school, explore potential obstacles to success in their schoolwork (such as lack of motivation, distractions, and lapses in self-confidence), and plan how to develop positive study habits and behaviours. To support your students even further, check out this lesson's resources: |
None |
| Work values lesson |
Recommended year: 10 or 11 On task time: 15 mins Suggested instructional time: 35 mins |
In this lesson, students will explore their own work values, and investigate careers that they may find satisfying based on their values. To support your students even further, check out this lesson's resources: |
Save at least 3 careers |
| Workplace skills and attitudes lesson |
Recommended year: 10 or 11 On task time: 10 mins Suggested instructional time: 30 mins |
In this lesson, students will explore skills and behaviours that employers look for, such as time management, dependability, communication skills, and problem solving. Students explain why these skills and behaviours are important in various careers and how they manifest on the job, and assess their own employability skills. To support your students even further, check out this lesson's resources: |
Save at least 3 careers |
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Choosing a university lesson |
Recommended year: 12 or 13 On task time: 10 mins Suggested instructional time: 30 mins |
In this lesson, students will identify which factors are important to them in a potential university, and investigate how a university stacks up to their priorities. To support your students even further, check out this lesson's resources: |
Save at least 3 colleges |
| Career demand lesson |
Recommended year: 11 or 12 On task time: 15 mins Suggested instructional time: 35 mins |
To support your students even further, check out this lesson's resources: |
Save at least 3 careers |
| Work/life balance lesson |
Recommended year: 11 or 12 On task time: 15 mins Suggested instructional time: 35 mins |
In this lesson, students will assess how their current work (school) demands affect family life, free time, and other time, identify the work demands of a career of interest, and explore strategies for maintaining a healthy life/work balance now and in the future. To support your students even further, check out this lesson's resources: |
Save at least 3 careers |
| Defining success lesson |
Recommended year: 12 or 13 On task time: 10 mins Suggested instructional time: 30 mins |
In this lesson, students will explore what success means to them in various aspects of life, including their personal life, school, and career, and explore ways they can make a difference and achieve success in a career that interests them. To support your students even further, check out this lesson's resources: |
Save at least 3 careers |
| Career backup plans lesson |
Recommended year: 12 or 13 On task time: 15 mins Suggested instructional time: 35 mins |
In this lesson, students will understand the importance of career backup plans, and explore potential backup careers for themselves. To support your students even further, check out this lesson's resources: |
Save at least 3 careers |
| Career path choices lesson |
Recommended year: 12 or 13 On task time: 10 mins Suggested instructional time: 30 mins |
In this lesson, students will understand that career development is a process of constant change, that flexibility and adaptability can help them continually explore their career options, and the importance of re-evaluating their interests, skills, and circumstances in order to identify the need or desire for a career change. To support your students even further, check out this lesson's resources: |
Add at least 5 interests Save at least 3 careers |
