Compass+ report

Educator & Xello Admin

7 minutes

Xello's Compass+ report is a powerful, quick, and easy way to track your students’ progress against the Gatsby Benchmarks. The report draws together data on students’ work towards completing lessons in Xello. It also tracks work and volunteer experiences entered on students’ Experiences Timeline.

The report is fully compatible with the Careers & Enterprise Company’s Compass+ tool.

Export the Compass+ report

To export the Compass+ report, before importing the raw data file into Compass+:

From your Educator Account, click Reports and select Compass+.
Select the file format for your exported data set (either CSV or Excel), and click Download.

Get the most out of your Compass+ report

To get the most out of the Compass+ report, we recommend that you:

Prioritise Xello's Lessons according to your requirements for students' exposure to the benchmarks. See how Lessons are mapped to benchmarks in the section below.
Encourage students to actively add Work Experience and Volunteer Experience to their Experiences Timeline (located on their About Me page).

By focusing efforts on the above, you can help guide your students to complete the most relevant Lessons first, which will drive engagement and produce the best results for your Compass+ report.

In addition, encouraging use of the Experiences Timeline means you'll be ensuring that the report you export for Compass+ includes student progress towards achieving Gatsby Benchmark 6 (Experience of workplaces).

How Lessons are mapped to Gatsby Benchmarks and Compass+ categories

Below we’ve illustrated how the content and activities in Xello’s lessons map to Gatsby Benchmarks, as well as the way the Careers & Enterprise Company’s Compass+ tool maps the Gatsby Benchmarks to their framework of categories.

	Maps to:
Lesson	Gatsby Benchmark	Compass+ tool category
Biases and Career Choices	3. Addressing the needs of each pupil	Addressing stereotypes
Career Backup Plans	2. Learning from career and labour market information	Information about the labour market for students
Career Demand	2. Learning from career and labour market information	Information about the labour market for students
Career Path Choices	2. Learning from career and labour market information	Information about the labour market for students
Choosing a University	7. Encounters with further and higher education	Other
Defining Success	3. Addressing the needs of each pupil	Aspiration raising
Exploring Career Factors	2. Learning from career and labour market information	Information about the labour market for students
Getting Experience	5. Encounters with employers and employees	Other
Interests	2. Learning from career and labour market information	Information about the labour market for students
Learning Pathways	7. Encounters with further and higher education	Other
Personality Styles	2. Learning from career and labour market information	Information about the labour market for students
School Subjects at Work	4. Linking curriculum learning to careers	Other
Skills	2. Learning from career and labour market information	Information about the labour market for students
Transition to FE	7. Encounters with further and higher education	Other
Work / Life Balance	2. Learning from career and labour market information	Information about the labour market for students
Work Values	2. Learning from career and labour market information	Information about the labour market for students
Workplace Skills and Attitudes	2. Learning from career and labour market information 5. Encounters with employers and employees	Information about the labour market for students Workplace Skills and Attitudes

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Note: If you do not subscribe to the Compass+ tool, the Compass+ report in Xello is still a valuable feature as it aggregates data that shows student completion of lessons mapped to the relevant Gatsby Benchmarks. By exporting this raw data file, you will be able to craft your own charts and graphs to evidence progression towards achieving the Gatsby Benchmarks.