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The School District of Osceola County provides Xello for all district students in grades K-12 to help with college and career exploration and planning! This world-class system is designed to inform students, parents, and schools with:
- Researching careers, colleges, and majors
- Finding local and national scholarships and enrichment programs
- Exploring students’ career interests, learning styles, personality types, and multiple intelligences
- Building resumes and holistic portfolios for job and college applications
- Setting goals and developing personalized plans for success
- Managing college application materials - requesting and sending transcripts and letters of recommendation
- Seniors - link your Common App to Xello using these directions to manage transcript requests and letters of recommendation! (Click here for a quick video on the process.)
- Learning about success skills, financial planning, self-discovery, and building a support network
Accessing Xello
All students in grades K-12 have access to Xello. Students will log into Classlink, select the Xello app, and enter into a world of exploration.
Parents can access their child’s Xello account as a guest to view college and career information. Parents will need a Xello account before doing so. Parents interested in an account can email the Coordinator of College & Career Counseling, Mrs. Malfara, and danielle.malfara@osceolaschools.net. Click here for a 2-minute video about your Xello family account!
What can Xello do?
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Parent Portal
Parents can also have an account. A parent account allows you to see your child's About Me page, saved careers and schools, where they are applying, and allows you to explore in the platform.
To create a parent account - email the Coordinator of College & Career Counseling for the School District of Osceola County, Mrs. Malfara, and danielle.malfara@osceolaschools.net.
Click here to learn more about what a parent account can do for you.
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Research careers, colleges, and majors
Students will be able to search for and be matched with careers, majors, technical schools, colleges, and universities based upon self-selected criteria.
Students can compare colleges and use filters to make informed decisions about admissions requirements, cost of attendance, programs of study, student activities, and more.
Students can take virtual tours of most schools and compare their own Core GPA and SAT/ACT scores to those of students in their school who have been accepted/denied from the colleges of interest. -
Find scholarships and enrichment programs
Juniors and seniors are able to search for local scholarships.
6th through 12th grade students are able to explore local job shadowing, volunteer, employment, internship, and apprenticeship opportunities in Xello as well.
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Explore your interests, learning & personality styles, and skills
Students can take a variety of research-based self-assessments to learn about their:
Personality Type
Learning Style
Skills
Career Interests (Matchmaker)
These results provide recommendations for applying this knowledge to improve study skills, relationships, college selection, and career choices. -
Build resumes and portfolios for job and college applications
Students are guided through the development of each section of a resume that can be printed and used for application to a job or school.
Videos, photos, or other digital documents can be stored in an electronic locker to remind students of accomplishments when completing applications. -
Set goals and develop personalized plans.
Students can set academic, behavioral, career, or other goals, then develop a personalized program that outlines the steps to achieve each goal. Schools can also assign students to complete tasks and monitor completion of each activity.
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Requests transcripts.
Students will be able to request copies of their transcripts online and monitor the document’s submission in Xello.
