Your whole caseload on one list, and nobody left to chase by hand.

You share one class code with the year group and let students take the assessments themselves. What you get back is a single list: every student who started, where they got to — opened, in progress, completed — and their result attached to their name, newest first. The people who never opened it are visible in that same list, and the platform chases them by email for you rather than leaving you to. Be clear on what it does not do: it does not rank your students or tell you which twenty to see first. There is no priority score, no triage queue and no way to assign a student to a named counsellor. It removes the chasing and the spreadsheet, and it leaves the judgement about who needs you with you. One practical thing to plan for at 380: Scale covers 200 assessments a billing period and the class-code page stops admitting new students once that is reached, so a caseload that size is run across two periods — year 11 this month, year 10 next — or scoped as a district deployment.

The ASCA National Model expects counsellors to demonstrate programme outcomes, not just activity, and this is a source of that evidence rather than a report that writes itself. What you can take from it: career-readiness assessment completion rate for the cohort, the spread of interest and personality profiles across it, the careers that keep coming up, and the underlying result data as a CSV. We do not generate an ASCA-formatted programme report — you or your district data lead map that export into whatever template your board expects. We also do not replace the ASCA Mindsets and Behaviors framework or the counsellor self-evaluation.

Elementary counsellors typically do not deploy career assessments — career awareness at K-5 is curriculum-led, not assessment-led. The platform serves grades 6-12, and the sequencing below is our recommendation rather than a setting in the product: middle school (6-8) runs Multiple Intelligences and Values to widen the mental list of possible futures; early high school (9-10) adds RIASEC and Career Match for exploration; late high school (11-12) leans on Big Five and Career Match. There is no grade field in the product, so a counsellor working across grades generates one class code per grade — the code stamped on each result is what separates them afterwards. Worth knowing: the cabinet does not ask you to name a code, it fills the name in from the assessments you ticked, so keep your own note of which code went to which grade.

Plans changing is normal — most students change direction at least once between sophomore and senior year — and this is the honest limit of the product today. Each assessment result is stamped with the date it was taken and stays on the student's record, so a student who retakes RIASEC in 9th and Career Match in 11th has both. What does not exist is a year-over-year view that puts those side by side for you, or any flag when a profile shifts. If you want to see movement across years you are reading two results, not one comparison screen. It is on the roadmap and it is not built.

Three things are true today. (1) The student and the counsellor see the same report — the result, the scale scores behind it, and when it was taken. Individual item-by-item answers are not exposed on the staff side at all. (2) A student can delete their account and the data attached to it, and the deletion reaches the email queue and the tables that hold a person by address, not only the ones that cascade. (3) No parent is contacted at all — nothing in the platform emails a guardian a child's result, and nothing asks a guardian to approve participation either. There is no parental-consent workflow on the class-code or invite path; the consent flow that exists in the product belongs to a separate teen programme with its own entry point and is not reachable from a school cohort. If your district requires documented parental consent, it is not met here and you should plan for it outside the platform.

Yes. JobCannon does not replace Naviance application management or SchooLinks pathway-planning surfaces — we sit underneath as the assessment-and-discovery layer. Many districts run JobCannon for grades 6-10 career exploration alongside Naviance or SchooLinks for grades 11-12 application management. The platforms do not need to integrate technically; they share the student via the SIS, and counsellors learn to use both. If your district wants to consolidate, see /compare/jobcannon-vs-naviance for the structural comparison.