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Beside save changes (in the question pop up) you also can delete the record if you no longer want to include this Question.
Skills and Academic Subject Strengths page:
When you click on “Skills and Academic Subject Strengths” you will find a list labelled “Academic” “Subject” or “Other”
Students are required to select from a list of Academic Strengths that they think they have, and also from a list of more generic Skills. This part of the programme gets students thinking about what they are good at.
You can edit all of these to suit your students. You can make a Skill visible for a particular year level or for all students. This allows you to increase the level of sophistication in skills as students mature. If you want to add a new Skill or Academic Strength click on “New Entry”.
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If you want to edit a skill click on 'Edit Skill'
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Make sure you select either Academic Subject or Other, and then type in the name of the Skill/Strength and save your changes. These will now appear in the students’ drop down lists.
Personal Qualities page:
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Interests / Student Questions page:
This page allows you the opportunity to find out about students’ interests. It also encourages students themselves to consider what it is they are really interested in and how that might apply to work.
You can also use this page to try and gauge how self-aware the students are with questions such as:
• What is your greatest strength and your greatest weakness?
• What do you see as the barriers to achieving your goals?
• Who influences your career decisions?
• Think about what you wanted to be when you were 10. If this has changed, why do you
think it has changed?
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The sort order controls the order of the question on the student side. For example, entering 1 will make it appear before a question with a sort order of 2.
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At the beginning of each new school year you have the option to change the questions that students see, however it is not advisable to change them during the year once students have started responding to them.
Intentions for next year / My Plans page:
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This page allows you to set up options for students to choose in order to indicate their intentions. Since most year 9 and 10 students will be returning to school we usually only show this page to senior students. (remember the profile setup order allows you to choose which pages each year level sees)
On this page you can edit the wording of each option (e.g. change the name of the school) or you can click on “New Entry” to create new options for students to choose from. For example, “I would like to leave school as soon as I can”.
On the staff side you can then see a table of all the students plans. Under Lists click on "my plans" and you will see who has picked each option.
Further Education Subject Setup Page:The Further Education
This page is used for where students to indicate interest in Universities, Polytechnics and other training providers. You will then be able to search for groups of students who are interested in these providers.
This information is also used on the “Leavers page” which students fill in when they are leaving school. The leaver’s page information gives you data on where your students are going and what they are going to be doing.
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You can edit the education providers in the list or make new entries. If you make a new entry please make sure you choose the provider type (Uni, poly or other).
You cannot edit the Universities as they are the 8 NZ Universities.
Next Years Subject Page:
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A couple of really important notes: Once Students have begun selecting subjects, don’t rename the subjects in this screen, or change the subject’s export codes.
Only enter in the ‘Custom Code’ if you are setting up complex subjects (eg students must select one Science from a range of options but no more than two). This option will appear before the rest of the subjects are shown to students.
To set up Custom Subjects, scroll to the bottom of the page. There you will see a heading "custom subject requirements" and click on "new requirement".
Write in a code word eg Y11SCIENCE15 (year 11 science set up in 2015)
Select the year level
Select the minimum number of subjects the student must choose as well as the maximum number.
Write a short message for students to see.
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Once the custom subject requirements are set you need to add the custom code to your subject page. Make sure it is exactly the same code that you set as the code word.
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You can set up more than one custom code. Eg in some schools students need to choose a subject from each faculty. Or choose 2 Arts, 2 Technology and 1 language subject.
Note: You will be adding the subjects available at each year level, but when students see the options on their page they will see the year above the one they are currently in (so a year 10 student will see the options you add for year 11).
Subject Limits Page :
On this page you can set the maximum number of subjects a student will be able to select. The number you choose will not include the compulsory subjects. For example if a year 10 student has five compulsory subjects and is allowed to choose three options you should set the subject limit at three subjects.
The wording on the page will use this number to indicate to students how many they should select and the options will disappear once they have chosen the appropriate number.
Resources page:
The resources page allows you to change both the order and the colour of the pages which students see when they click on their "Resources" tab. Simply drag them up and down to change the order and click on the colour wheel to change the colour.
If you want to add new pages to the resources area do this in Page Setup below.
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This is also where you can create new pages. For example, a new request page or a new
resource page.
Click on New Page, fill in the page’s title, the page contents (the wording you would like to appear on the page) and select the module name. If you are creating a request page (Gateway, Trades and Taster courses already have request for more information pages) then choose Request
page (custom) in the module type.
If you want to create a new Resource page (students see these under their resources tab) fill in what you would like on the page, including any links, and choose Resource page for the module type.
Any new pages need to be in one of our templates (this is the module name). For this reason it is best to only create new resource or request pages.
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Student Mobiles:
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Requests are either Page Requests or Tracked requests. A page request is a page that you create and then make visible to students. Examples of page requests are the Gateway, Taster Course and Trades Academy pages where students can request information about these programmes. If you want to set up a page request do this under “page setup”.
A Tracked Request is one students access via their request tab. For example, you might want them to be able to request a reference from you. Because the requests can be tracked by you and by the student it is less likely to be lost and forgotten about, as can happen with an email or verbal request.
To set up a Tracked Request simply click on New Entry and add the information. The Icon you choose will be a small graphic associated to the request. The icon is optional but makes a nice additionwill indicate to you the subjects they are considering taking the following year. This allows you to give the students feedback on whether or not you think the subjects are a good match for the occupations they are interested in, before they make their final selections.
On this page, please enter all the subjects that are available for the specified year level – i.e. if there is a year 10 subject called English, create it, and enter 10 for the year. You can also enter a subject export code e.g. ‘10ENG’, which is the code that appears on KAMAR for the subject – and is what is is exported from KAMAR if you use the data for another programme.
If a subject is compulsory, you can select this as well. Compulsory subjects will automatically appear when a student comes to make their choices.
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A couple of really important notes: Once Students have begun selecting subjects, don’t rename the subjects in this screen, or change the subject’s export codes.
Only enter in the ‘Custom Code’ if you are setting up complex subjects (eg students must select one Science from a range of options but no more than two). This option will appear before the rest of the subjects are shown to students.
To set up Custom Subjects, scroll to the bottom of the page. There you will see a heading "custom subject requirements" and click on "new requirement".
Write in a code word eg Y11SCIENCE15 (year 11 science set up in 2015)
Select the year level
Select the minimum number of subjects the student must choose as well as the maximum number.
Write a short message for students to see.
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Once the custom subject requirements are set you need to add the custom code to your subject page. Make sure it is exactly the same code that you set as the code word.
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You can set up more than one custom code. Eg in some schools students need to choose a subject from each faculty. Or choose 2 Arts, 2 Technology and 1 language subject.
Note: You will be adding the subjects available at each year level, but when students see the options on their page they will see the year above the one they are currently in (so a year 10 student will see the options you add for year 11).
Subject Limits Page :
On this page you can set the maximum number of subjects a student will be able to select. The number you choose will not include the compulsory subjects. For example if a year 10 student has five compulsory subjects and is allowed to choose three options you should set the subject limit at three subjects.
The wording on the page will use this number to indicate to students how many they should select and the options will disappear once they have chosen the appropriate number.
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Resources page:
The resources page allows you to change both the order and the colour of the pages which students see when they click on their "Resources" tab. Simply drag them up and down to change the order and click on the colour wheel to change the colour.
If you want to add new pages to the resources area do this in Page Setup below.
Page Setup :
This tab allows you to edit the icon or wording on each of the student’s pages and decide if you want this information visible on the parent portal.
Click on edit to change the wording e.g.
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This is also where you can create new pages. For example, a new request page or a new resource page.
Click on New Page, fill in the page’s title, the page contents (the wording you would like to appear on the page) and select the module name. If you are creating a request page (Gateway, Trades and Taster courses already have request for more information pages) then choose Request page (custom) in the module type.
If you want to create a new Resource page (students see these under their resources tab) fill in what you would like on the page, including any links, and choose Resource page for the module type.
Any new pages need to be in one of our templates (this is the module name). For this reason it is best to only create new resource or request pages.Don’t forget to save them.
Student Mobiles:
In this section you can manually add a student’s cell phone number manually. You can do this if they are having trouble with their phone of if they have input the wrong number too many times.
Staff
(the staff section is actually below career setup but we have included setup instructions here as well)
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TRT = This is for Trades Academies so ignore if you are a secondary school
Staff will access Career Central using their KAMAR passwords, however you can also change or reset staff passwords in this areaeither Kamar login details, Google or Microsoft logins.
If you click on “Edit User” you can choose to show the staff member on the message page (so students can message them), or the Interview page. It is advised that you only add careers or guidance staff to these sections.
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On this page you can also decide which staff members are visible in the students Mailbox and Interviews tab. This means students can message or request interview with them. You can also make some staff visible to just some year levels eg deans.
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