Add or edit a scholarship

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Educators with administrator or user level access can add a local scholarship to Xello for students to search and apply for. Be sure to keep local scholarships updated and current, and edit previously created scholarships when necessary.

Scholarships added by educators at a school will be labeled as School-added for students. To help bring them to students' attention, they'll be sorted towards the top of the list of scholarship matches.

You can choose whether to make the scholarship visible to your students right away or to turn off visibility until the scholarship is available for students to apply. If you remove visibility to a scholarship after a student has saved it, the scholarship will then be tagged as Unavailable for the student.

Note: Only those with administrator or user level access can create or make these changes. To learn more about educator access and permissions, read the article on Educator Permissions.

Add a scholarship

If you know of a local scholarship, add it to Xello so your students can view the opportunity and apply.

Make sure the scholarship includes as much information as you have available. The more information and keywords for your students to search, the more likely they are to find it, and apply for it.

Some tips to keep in mind when completing a scholarship form:

Complete the eligibility requirements section so your students are better matched with scholarships.
The more information you include, the more likely your students are to get matched. Scholarship matches are determined when the answers students give in their scholarship profile correspond to details included in the scholarship.
For information not included anywhere else, use the larger text boxes to help draw attention and make it easier for students to read.
Students use deadlines and award amounts to filter and prioritize scholarships, so make sure this information is available and updated.

Note: For those with user permission who create a scholarship, it will show only at the high school to which they're assigned. To create a scholarship that is visible to students across several high schools, someone with admin access can create the scholarship and select multiple high schools for the scholarship to show.

To add a local scholarship:

From your educator account, under Features, click College and select Scholarships.
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From next to School-added scholarships, click Manage.
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Click Add scholarship to open the scholarship form.
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Fill out all the necessary information.
- Click Add link to include a link to where the scholarship is offered, or more additional information.
- Click Add file to upload a file. This could be helpful if the scholarship application form is in a PDF, for example.
To make the scholarship show for your students, switch the Visible to students toggle to YES. It will be immediately visible to them once you publish.
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Click Preview to view how the scholarship will look for your students.
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To save and complete, click Publish.

Note: If you're adding a scholarship to a district account, you'll need to select the schools to make it available to those students.

Edit a scholarship

Keep scholarships in Xello updated and current for your students.

To edit a previously created scholarship:

From your educator account, under Features, click College and select Scholarships.
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From next to School-added scholarships, click Manage.
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Locate the scholarship you'd like to edit
Click the three-dot menu, and select Edit.
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Make the necessary changes and click Publish.

Additional resources

PDF

PDFScholarships guide - student guide
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Short video

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