NavianceFamily Connection

Ocean City High School

Family Connection is a Web-based program designed for students and parents.

It assists students and parents in helping make decisions about courses, colleges and careers as well as assist in finding funding.

Information is specific to Ocean City High School.  Counselors can update students and parents

about up-coming meetings, news, events, and other Web resources for college and career information.

No direct cost to the student or families as the service is paid by the school district.

What is Naviance Family Connection?

Family Connection: How Can it Help Me?Complete the “Do What You Are” to determine

individual personality typeCareer Interest Profiler (what careers match

my interests)Career Exploration/ClustersCollege SearchesCollege “Look Up”Acceptance History***Visit ScheduleScholarship Opportunities

• On the OCHS home page, enter the code that was provided to you tonight (or prior).

• Complete the registration page using your email address and a password.

• NOTE: Future log-ins will only require your email and password.

• Announcements, emails and other important information are posted on the Welcome page. Check it often!

Logging On

Allows you to view and identify courses that may be of interest to you while you are a student at OCHS.

Register for courses and coordinate career goals with multi-year course planning.

Create lists of interesting courses

personal notes to course plans

Courses

Explore career profiles by different methods of sorting such as by career clusters, by interest, by personality type

Provides you with career information such as education requirements, specific job responsibilities, average salaries, and jobs within each career field.

Allows you to take a personality test and career interest profiler to help you find a career that matches your interests.

Careers

Allows you to create goals and tasks

Allows you to create a profile and update test scores

Allows you to create and save documents, lists colleges and career paths you find interesting, record information from your personality test, work on your resume and complete surveys

About Me

Explore colleges in different ways: location, majors, resources, etc. View average test scores, average GPA’s, funding sources of students, tuition costs, student life, diversity levels, attrition rates, etc.

Identify how you compare (GPA and Test Scores) with other students who applied to this school. The scattergram shows test scores and GPA’s of past students who applied.

Explore enrichment programs (ie. Summer programs).Explore scholarships and complete scholarship

applications.Exercise: go to scattergrams and select Kean University

or Rutgers University as an example. What is the average GPA of students accepted to Kean and Rutgers?

Colleges

College Visits

College Profile Information

Important Statistics

College Specific Information Continued….

How can I find Scholarships?

Scholarship Lists

Thank you for your time and attention tonight!

Tobi OvesCollege and Career Counselor

Ocean City School District609-814-8716

toves@ocsdnj.org

Any Questions?