With over 3,600 Compass+ users and over three million learners in the system, we support hundreds of practitioners to effectively benchmark, track, monitor and evaluate their careers provision at individual learner level.
Our development work for Compass+ is split into three main areas:
- New features
- Improving current functionality
- Housekeeping and Maintenance
This Help Centre article lists the main updates and developments we have made to Compass+.
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENTS COMING SOON!
- Improvements to the process of uploading activities to Compass+ from Partner Platforms and bulk changing activity statuses
- The content of the Learner Report PDF is being reviewed with the ability to customise the report
- Ability to upload Careers Partners into the Careers Partners section of Compass+
- Enhance Compass+ demo environment to support training delivery
- Compass evaluation updates following the Gatsby Foundation 10-year review
UPDATE: Activities reporting - Improved activities reporting so that users can view aggregate activities data, access detailed learner attendance and characteristics information and download this data into an Excel spreadsheet
Section of Compass+: ACTIVITIES
Date Live: October 2024
Activities Reporting in Compass+
UPDATE: Future Skills Questionnaire - Three new questions have been added to the Key Stage versions of FSQ.
Section of Compass+ : QUESTIONNAIRE
DATE LIVE : September 2024
New questions added to FSQ - September 2024
UPDATE: Activities - Attendance codes improvements aligned with DfE changes
Section of Compass+ : ACTIVITIES
DATE LIVE : September 2024
How to mark an activity as complete or cancelled and managing attendance data
UPDATE: Future Skills Questionnaire - A feature to help institutions identify if they have issues with their 'email health' to support them in using learner email addresses in product for FSQ questionnaire distribution.
Section of Compass+: DASHBOARD
DATE LIVE : August 2024
Email Health Status
UPDATE: Compass evaluation - Removing the Gatsby Benchmark national comparison on the Compass results page following feedback from Hubs. Also removing the additional questions for GBM6 and GBM8 that were added at the end of last academic year.
Section of Compass+ : EVALUATION
DATE LIVE : August 2024
Compass evaluations on Compass+
UPDATE: Learner > Current - Enabling the sending of learner profile reports via email.
Section of Compass+ : LEARNER
DATE LIVE : August 2024
Sending a learner report by email
UPDATE: Compass evaluation - Additional questions added to Compass evaluations relating to GBM6 and GBM8
Section of Compass+ : EVALUATION
Date live : June & July 2024
Additional questions on Compass+
UPDATE: Careers Impact internal leadership review - A digital version (within Compass and Compass+) of the Careers Impact System Maturity Model allows schools, special schools and colleges to record an internal leadership review.
Section of Compass+ : EVALUATION
Date live : June 2024
Careers Impact System
UPDATE: FSQ Reporting - You can filter FSQ learner responses for specific questions and download into an Excel spreadsheet.
Section of Compass+ : QUESTIONNAIRE
Date live : June 2024
FSQ Reporting in Compass+
UPDATE: Attendance data - Improvements to attendance data to include more information about absence codes.
Section of Compass: ACTIVITIES
Date live: March 2024
Managing Attendance
UPDATE: Careers Partners- Added ‘T Levels’ and ‘Independent Training Providers’ organisation types when a user creates a new partner. Added ‘Organisation Type’ and ‘Sector’ to the download.
Section of Compass+ : CAREERS PARTNERS
Date live : February 2024
How to use the Careers Partners database
UPDATE: Compass evaluation - Additional PAL questions added to all Compass evaluations (schools, special schools and Post-16) under Gatsby Benchmark 7 section
Section of Compass+ : EVALUATION
Date live : February 2024
PAL guidance
UPDATE: Future Skills Questionnaire - There are instances when schools try to generate FSQ links when learner year group data is not up-to-date for the current academic year. We have made an update to Compass+ so that if you generate an invalid link for a learner, the system can automatically detect this, and will:
- Mark any FSQ links as ‘invalid’ on the FSQ generate links tab
- Notify administrators via email in ‘real-time’, listing the learners that are affected asking you to regenerate the link for the learner on Compass+.
Follow the guidance for more information > Regenerating links for the Future Skills Questionnaire (FSQ)
Section of Compass+ : QUESTIONNAIRE
Date live : January 2024
Future Skills Questionnaire
UPDATE: Future Skills Questionnaire - We have been working hard to make the Future Skills Questionnaire more robust and less prone to bugs, while improving some of the functionality to make it easier to use.
- Changes to reporting: Summary Report: When you select an academic year from the drop-down in the summary report, the same academic year will automatically be reflected in the detailed report too to save you from having to select this multiple times. The average and total number of responses had previously displayed incorrect data and this is now correct
- In the Detailed and SEND reports; the drill down table has been improved with ‘order by’, and search field
- The question numbers are now consistent across different areas of the product; on the questionnaire, on visualisations and on the Learner Profile making it easier to cross reference responses
- When you download your questionnaire links to Excel, the links are already ‘active’ and can be clicked on immediately by learners if you are distributing links manually, you don't have to format each link before sharing with a learner.
Section of Compass+ : QUESTIONNAIRE
Date live : January 2024
Future Skills Questionnaire
UPDATE: Learner > Current - A filter has been added next to the Year Group/Form Group columns so that you can easily identify learners whose year group and form info is missing on your MIS.
Section of Compass+ : LEARNER
Date live : January 2024
Learner Data
UPDATE: Careers Partners - Organisation Type and Sector have been added to the columns when you download your Careers Partners information making it much easier to filter this data.
T-Levels and Independent Training Provider have been added to the Organisation type dropdown list in Careers Partners.
Section of Compass+ : CAREERS PARTNERS
Date live : December 2023
How to use Careers Partners
UPDATE: Groups - When clicking the eye icon to view learners in groups, a pop-up window appears on screen displaying learners names split out into two columns; surname and first name.
Section of Compass+ : ACTIVITIES
Date live : December 2023
Managing Groups
UPDATE: Learner Profile - Interests and Destinations tab - New options have been added to the Qualification type dropdown list:
- Foundation degree
- Higher national certificate (HNC),
- Higher national diploma (HND).
Section of Compass+ : LEARNER
Date live : December 2023
Learner Reporting - Learner profile Interests and Destinations tab