With over 3,800 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 activities section of Compass+ - being able to bulk change activity status plus other user experience improvements, will enable users to view more integrated data on the Activities page and make it easier for you to manage and update activities efficiently.
- Your Child's Future will help users collect standardised data on parent and carer awareness, knowledge, and confidence in careers provision, enabling a more strategic, data-driven approach to parental engagement supporting better analysis and comparison.
UPDATE: OnTrack+ - OnTrack+ helps educators to identify emerging support needs for learners in Years 7-11, strengthening sustained learner engagement and post-16 transition.
Section of Compass+ : LEARNER
DATE LIVE : FEBRUARY 2026
OnTrack+
UPDATE: Homepage and navigation improvements - A new Compass+ homepage is now live! We have made it clearer which key features you have engaged with, and which features haven’t been utilised yet. How you navigate Compass+ has been updated to simplify interactions across the product. All data visualisations are now available in the relevant section of Compass+ rather than being on the homepage.
Section of Compass+: HOMEPAGE and NAVIGATION
DATE LIVE : NOVEMBER 2025
Compass+ Homepage
UPDATE: Compass Evaluation - New Compass evaluations are now live in Compass+ following the Gatsby 10-year review.
Section of Compass+ : EVALUATIONS
DATE LIVE : NOVEMBER 2025
Understand Compass evaluations
UPDATE: Future Skills Questionnaire - New questions added to the Mainstream and SEND questionnaires, as well as response options for both Part 1: Career Knowledge and Skills, and Part 2: Essential Skills for Life and Work.
Section of Compass+ : QUESTIONNAIRE
DATE LIVE : SEPTEMBER 2025
FSQ Questions and Updates for 2025/26 Academic Year
UPDATE: Website Terms & Conditions - A new banner notifying Compass+ users about the new Privacy Notice and Terms and Conditions for all CEC products.
Section of Compass+ : All CEC applications and websites
DATE LIVE : SEPTEMBER 2025
Terms and Conditions and Privacy Notice
UPDATE: Learner Report - Users can customise learner reports and also send directly to the learner via email in Compass+.
Section of Compass+ : LEARNER
DATE LIVE : APRIL 2025
How to customise and send a learner report by email from Learner Report
How to customise and send a learner report from an individual learner profile
UPDATE: Careers Partners - Users can bulk upload Partners into the Careers Partners Database and also download a full list of Partners into an Excel spreadsheet.
Section of Compass+ : CAREERS PARTNERS
DATE LIVE : APRIL 2025
Adding Careers Partners into Compass+ using the Careers Partners Upload template
UPDATE: Future Skills Questionnaire- Functionality has been added so that users can create a Custom group from the Detailed, SEND and Custom reports. Users can also select all questions when creating Custom reports.
Section of Compass+ : QUESTIONNAIRE
DATE LIVE : March 2025
Creating Custom groups in the FSQ detailed report
UPDATE: Data Status page- The MIS Integration page on Compass+ has been updated and is now called Data Status. Here users can see how their Compass+ account pulls through learner data from their Management Information System (MIS).
Section of Compass+ : DATA STATUS
DATE LIVE : March 2025
Data Status page
UPDATE: Future Skills Questionnaire - Form groups and Teaching groups have been added to the table displayed in the ‘Generate and manage questionnaire links’ tab in the Questionnaire section. This makes it easier for users to filter by ‘Questionnaire status’ and reach out to learners who have got a link to FSQ in their inbox, but haven’t completed it yet.
Section of Compass+ : QUESTIONNAIRE
DATE LIVE : February 2025
How to generate questionnaire links
UPDATE: Future Skills Questionnaire - New imagery has been added to each section of FSQ. The imagery is also included in the preview environments too. The imagery aligns with the FSQ Learner engagement animation also released this month.
Section of Compass+ : QUESTIONNAIRE
DATE LIVE : January 2025
FSQ Engagement resources
UPDATE: Careers Impact Internal leadership review - All responses highlighted on the Maturity Model can now be downloaded as a PDF.
Section of Compass+ : EVALUATIONS
DATE LIVE : January 2025
How to access internal leadership review responses on Compass+