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 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: 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+
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