Career development (certifications, courses & curriculum) for changemakers.
Thanks to your incredible feedback and participation in the Scoir community, you’ve helped us make huge improvements to the platform! 🚀
We’re excited to share key updates and new solutions we’ve released over the past year and a half, designed to help you spend less time on admin and more time supporting students.
Let’s get right into it!
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Learn more: For Counselors: Introducing Admission Intelligence (Scoir AI)
Who this is for: Counselors; students and parents/guardians if enabled by your school
Release date: September 2024
What’s in it for you: A series of tools to help you and your students balance college lists and demystify acceptance chances, saving time and taking guesswork out of acceptance chances
We just launched one of our most exciting high school releases yet: Admission Intelligence, or as we like to call it—Scoir AI!
Scoir AI is a series of tools that provides credible, predictive insights tailored to your school inside the platform you’re already using to support effective list-building and informed decision-making. We've also enhanced some existing features to support these new solutions.
Here’s what you can expect from Admission Intelligence.
Streamline the creation and evaluation of college lists, quickly identify students in need of support, and effectively track their progress from early list building to application planning with Balanced List Scores.
List scores are calculated by evaluating the students’ college list and based on criteria set by the school. Acceptance Likelihood must be set to see these scores.
By using Intelligent Match, you can save time and set personalized Acceptance Likelihood at scale for all students and colleges. Alternatively, counselors can manually assign match levels to account for unique aspects of a student's profile.
This flexibility ensures that students receive personalized guidance that reflects their achievements, ultimately increasing their chances of gaining admission to well-suited colleges.
Rounding it all out, with Smart Suggestions, you can search colleges based on Reach, Level, and Likely directly from the list-building experience, making it even easier to suggest schools.
Go beyond Scattergrams with Predictive Chances. Using outcomes from thousands of similar profiles, see round-level and individual predictions for each college and help students make informed decisions about where to apply and when.
While Scattergrams provide valuable insights, they're limited to your high school's data. And, not all schools have a large pool of information to pull from. Predictive Chances pull from tens of millions of de-identified outcome records so you have a larger sample size to see results from.
Learn more: For Counselors: Career Readiness Early Access
Who this is for: Students, parents/guardians, and counselors
Release date: April - July 2024
What’s in it for you: Save time on admin and keep students on track towards their college and career readiness goals, right in Scoir
Over the summer, we expanded to include Career Readiness for grades 6-12, allowing us to serve both college and non-college-bound students on their journeys. We released new solutions like Assignments and more career discovery tools like career assessment matches, as well as a Career Readiness Curriculum.
Plus, more Career Readiness features are around the corner with our upcoming Advanced Plan which will include learning plans and additional support for advisors. Sign up for the waitlist to keep up with the latest updates!
Learn more: For Counselors: Assigning & Managing Student Tasks, For Counselors: Assigning Tasks & Forms to Parents
Counselors can now assign student and parent/guardian tasks to keep everyone on the same page. Tasks are a great way to ensure students are completing key milestones throughout their career readiness journey, like taking the Career Assessment on Scoir, researching career clusters, and completing any other career readiness homework assignments.
At a glance, see who’s completed tasks, quickly send reminders for those who haven't, and mark tasks incomplete if a student needs to add more details. Students and parents/guardians are notified when they’ve been assigned a new task and can view and complete these right from their dashboard.
Learn more: For Counselors: Plans for Recurring Tasks
Counselors can now create a plan of recurring tasks and forms that are automatically assigned and can be reused year after year to align with their college and/or career readiness curriculum.
Learn more: For Counselors: Assigning Tasks & Forms to Parents
Gather important information from students and parents/guardians and streamline communication using Forms.
Whether you're gathering reflections from students as they explore career clusters or asking them to complete an interest survey, you'll be able to better analyze the data and determine the impact of lessons and other initiatives using Forms.
We expanded our college catalog to include Trade & Technical Colleges for those interested in pursuing a path outside of a traditional 4-year college.
By including technical and trade schools in our college catalog, we're giving students even more personalized options in the pathways they choose to take after graduation.
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We know that each student’s path is unique as you guide and support them through the different milestones of self-discovery—especially in their early years.
When we expanded to include Career Readiness on top of our College solution, it was important to us that we included students in their early years. That’s why we now have a middle school solution that helps you support students beginning in the 6th grade.
In 2023, we released new features to assist students, parents/guardians, and their counselors in the career exploration journey.
Learn more: For Students & Counselors: PrinciplesYou Character Assessment
Who this is for: Students and counselors
Release date: June 2023
What’s in it for you: A science-backed character assessment right in Scoir to guide conversations with students about their future
Scoir has partnered with PrinciplesYou to be the first college and career readiness platform to bring the powerful character assessment to schools nationwide (included with Scoir at no additional cost!).
Because PrinciplesYou is designed for the modern workforce that students will be joining, results give them a better understanding of how they’ll fit in, how jobs truly match their tendencies, and how they can work with different personalities in different fields.
Learn more: For Students & Counselors: Discover and Match with Careers
Who this is for: Students, parents/guardians, and counselors
Release date: March 2023
What’s in it for you: Give students intuitive tools to conduct their career search and guide conversations with students about the career and post-secondary education connection
Support students in self-discovery with an assessment that will help them better understand their interests.
As they identify their interests, they can narrow down their search even more in Scoir by filtering careers based on career clusters, education needed, income, and outlook.
Learn more: For Students & Counselors: Discover and Match with Careers, For Students: College Matches in Career Discovery
Who this is for: Students, parents/guardians, and counselors
Release date: March 2023
What’s in it for you: Give students intuitive tools to conduct their career search and guide conversations with students about the career and post-secondary education connection
Counselors and students can explore comprehensive career details like education needed, required skills, daily tasks, and similar job titles, helping you better guide students through discovery.
As students research in Scoir, they'll learn to identify a variety of careers and develop a deeper understanding of career ranges and clusters.
As students discover careers of interest in Scoir, we help them take the next step by surfacing colleges with related majors.
Learn more: For Counselors: Reimagined Counselor Experience, For Counselors: Labels & Notes in the Reimagined Counselor Experience
Who this is for: Counselors
Release date: October 2023
What’s in it for you: A flexible, more customizable Scoir experience for counselors so you can get to what you need faster
We know that “one size does not fit all” and not all students are the same, and we’ve been hard at work to develop more system flexibility in Scoir, helping you personalize your support for students according to your experience, expertise, work style, school requirements, and more.
Our Reimagined Counselor Experience includes solutions that provide better data management and visibility inside the platform.
Learn more: For Counselors: Previews, Labels, & Views in Colleges, For Counselors: Left Side Navigation & Parent Roster Refresh, For Counselors: Previews, Labels, & Views in Colleges
Who this is for: Counselors
Release date: December 2023
What’s in it for you:
Throughout Scoir on pages like the Student & Parent Roster and Colleges, you’ll notice better data visibility in a table view, allowing you to see and export the information you need fast.
Learn more: For Counselors: Reimagined Counselor Experience
Take your data a step further and capture unique information about your students with Custom Properties! That way, if Scoir doesn’t have an existing field for data you want to see, like summer programs, you can simply create one.
From there, filter by your Custom Properties and include them in your saved views! You can even add Custom Properties into Forms! Both Custom Properties and Forms can be created at the Network level.
Learn more: For Counselors: Previews, Labels, & Views in Colleges, For Counselors: Labels & Notes in the Reimagined Counselor Experience
Who this is for: Counselors
Release date: January 2024
What’s in it for you: Get the info you need faster from college data tables
Labels help you categorize and group students in the Student Roster based on specific designations like Athletics or remote status.
Learn more: For Counselors: Better Visibility & Filtering in the Parent Roster
Who this is for: Counselors
Release date: January 2024
What’s in it for you: Save time on admin with a more customizable Parent roster
Better manage parent/guardian connections on Scoir with a new Roster Status filter and tag.
You’ll now see a new tag on parents and guardians who were invited to register for Scoir by a student.
Learn more: For Students: Discover Programs
Who this is for: Students, parents/guardians, and counselors
Release date: January 2024
What’s in it for you: Easily assist students with signing up for Programs and Events in Scoir
Now, students can easily discover virtual and in-person Programs using filtered searches and sign up for them.
We hope these updates enhance your experience with Scoir as you guide students through their educational journeys. We’ve come so far since 2022! Thank you for being an integral part of our community and for your continued feedback. Here’s to a fantastic school year ahead!
If you have any questions or need further assistance, don’t hesitate to contact our support team or your Customer Success Manager.
Happy counseling! 🎓 💙 📘
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Abby deSilva: Oct 3, 2024 9:24:22 AM
Thanks to your incredible feedback and participation in the Scoir community, you’ve helped us make huge improvements to the platform! 🚀
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Valerie Russell: Sep 25, 2024 7:11:49 AM
We’re thrilled to introduce Admission Intelligence—tools that bring clarity and confidence to acceptance chances. 🚀
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Ginny Perkins: Aug 29, 2024 3:37:14 PM
See how assigning Tasks & Forms to parents/guardians helps streamline communication, improve student outcomes, and enhance parent involvement. 🚀
