Compass+ is a free digital product from The Careers and Enterprise Company, funded and recommended by the Department for Education.
Compass+ enables you to benchmark, track and report on your whole careers provision, right down to individual learner level. It effectively supports you to make important strategic decisions about careers delivery in your institution.
We are continuously developing Compass+ to meet the needs of the education sector, and have designed a range of functionality in product to support the effective management and evaluation of your whole careers provision.
To get started we recommend:
- Joining one of our Compass+ training webinars, delivered by expert CEC trainers, to find out more about how to use Compass+ effectively in your setting
- Complete a Compass evaluation
- Add an activity for Gatsby Benchmark (GBM) 1 then add 'big ticket' activities that cover GBM 2-8 such as Careers Fairs or activities that occur regularly across the academic year
- Deliver Future Skills Questionnaire
- Start to build your Careers Partners by entering contacts that deliver careers activities to your learners.
Here is a quick recap of what Compass+ can do...(there are Help Centre articles that support you to use each section of Compass+, these are also linked below)
DASHBOARD : Data visualisations that show a summary of your institution’s careers activity for the current academic year.
EVALUATIONS : Complete your termly Compass evaluation and record Careers Impact internal leadership reviews here.
ACTIVITIES : Keep a track of all your careers activities in one place, easily add new activities, upload activities from partner platforms or from our handy Activities Upload template. Go to this section to manage all your Groups, including Custom groups that you set up yourself.
LEARNER : View your Current and Left learners, look at their individual learner profile that captures careers activities they have taken part in, interests and destinations information, plus their responses to the Future Skills Questionnaire.
This is where you generate and manage links for the Future Skills Questionnaire (FSQ), and also where you can email the learner report directly to a learner.
APPRENTICESHIPS : Search for current apprenticeship vacancies to share with your learners.
CAREERS PARTNERS : This is your little black book! Keep all your contacts who deliver careers activities safely and securely in one place. You can also use our Provider Directory to search for new activity providers too.
MIS INTEGRATION : A very helpful section that provides information about your connection between Compass+ and your Management Information System (MIS).
HELP CENTRE : This is where you can access the Compass+ Help Centre when you're logged into product, there is also where you'll find a link to the Skills Builder Hub as well as links to wider training and resources.
There's also a ton of reporting available in Compass+ too...
Dashboard visualisations : Review Gatsby Benchmark (GBM) progress and performance, see activities for the year both planned and completed, track intended destinations data
Evaluations : Use Compass evaluation results to support recording your annual Careers Impact internal leadership review
Learner Reporting : Available for both Current and Left learners, this includes FSQ reporting with Custom reporting available which allows you to drill down on specific questions - this is a game-changer!
Activities Reporting : Download Activities and apply filters to analyse activities data
*COMING SOON!* New Activities Reporting that will enable you to identify learners who have/have not attended activities, filter by characteristics to plan targeted intervention and support and track learner progress to plan next steps effectively.
Review and share relevant data and reporting by:
- Using filter and sort functionality in-product
- Generating and downloading reports to manipulate in Excel
- Screenshot and paste into presentations/reports to share with relevant stakeholders.
Here are two short videos that help you to get started with Compass+ and understand the scope of Compass+. There have been some language changes in product since these were recorded, so there is a slight difference in terminology but the core functionality of using Compass+ remains the same.