Overview

Navigate to Student Data > Programs >Career Pathways


The Career Pathways page is used to add Career Pathways to a student and to record each pathway’s History, Experiences, Outcomes, and Activities and Awards. The Courses section is display-only. This page is available only for California districts.



Configuration

Select a Career Pathway from the Pathway drop-down list (it shows only pathways the student does not already have). Select Completed if the student has completed the pathway, add any Comment, and click Insert.


Select a career pathway menu



Note: The Completed checkbox is used to designate the Pathway as Completed for the Student.  If the Completed field on the Student Career Pathways page is selected, the CALPADS SCTE record’s CTE Pathway Completion Academic Year is filled in with the Academic Year of the student’s Level 3 History record. If Completed is not selected, that field is left blank.



To add an additional Career Pathway to a Student, click on Add and select the Pathway. 


Use Add to assigne additional pathways

Additional Career Pathways appear as shown. 


two pathways added to a student

After a Pathway is selected and saved for a Student, it appears as its own tab with Pathway Details, History, Courses, Experiences, Outcomes, and Activities and Awards sections. 



The Courses section lists every course linked to this pathway at the student’s school (on the Career Pathways tab of the Courses page), even if the student has not taken it. If the student has a Transcript (HIS) record for a course, the Grade, Credit, Year and Term are shown. Current Course shows Yes when the course is on the student’s current class schedule.


To add History information to the Pathway for the Student, click Add in the History section. Select the Academic Year, Level and School (Academic Year and School default to the current year and the student’s school), add any Comment, and click the Save icon.  

Note: Ensure the Level is the same as the State Course Code Level in the 'California Specific Fields' tab of the Course information or the student may not display correctly in the Career Pathways Management page.


Use the Add button to add History record


NOTE:  The CALPADS SCTE extract includes a student only when the student has a History record with Level 3 - Participants (Completer) for the academic year being reported, at the student’s current school, and the student has an SSID. History records at Level 1 (Participants (Introductory)) or Level 2 (Participants (Level 2)) are kept in Aeries and used on the Career Pathways Management page, but they are not sent in the SCTE file. Deleting a Level 3 History record also clears Completed on the pathway. Please reference the Career Pathways FAQ page for more information.


To add Experience information, click Add in the Experiences section. Select the Experience (required), enter the Start and End dates and Hours, select or type the Company, select the Compensation type and amount, add any Comment, and click the Save icon.


Note: An Experience and Date is needed for California Career Pathways Trust (CCPT) reporting. 


Adding Experience



To add Outcome information, click on the Add button in the Outcomes section, enter the information and click Save.


Adding an Outcome


Note: An Outcome and Date is also needed for California Career Pathways Trust (CCPT) reporting. 


To add Activities and Awards information, click on the Add button in the  Activities and Awards section. Enter the information and click Save.



An Activity or Award entered on the Career Pathways page is inserted into the ACT table and will also show on the Activities and Awards Page.  The record viewed on the Activities and Awards page will display the Career Pathway associated with the Activity or Award.  

Awards may also be entered directly on the Activities and Awards page for a Career Pathway by selecting a pathway in the Career Pathway field.  See the documentation.


If the Activity or Award record needs a Reason added, that information needs to be populated on the Activities and Awards page for the record. This is sometimes needed to display on the Transcript. 


Career Pathways Widget


The Career Pathways widget is visible on the Student's Profile page.


The widget appears for any user with Read permission to Career Pathways (CPW). If the student has no pathway, it shows No Pathways found for this student. Click a pathway name in the widget to open that pathway on the Career Pathways page in a new tab.


The widget displays each Course in a Pathway and the individual History for that Student. This information displays whether or not the Students are currently scheduled or have transcript records in these particular Courses. It displays the Course title, number, and Course Level (CCP.LVL). The Grade, Credits completed, Year, and Term are pulled from the Student's transcript. The Current Course column shows if the Course is currently in the Student's Class Schedule (SEC). 



A Level 3 course (CCP.LVL = 3) with a D-range mark (D+, D, D-) appears in red.


Any pathway course with an F mark appears in red, regardless of its Level.



COVID-19 Terms (2019-20 and 2020-21)

On the Career Pathways page and the Profile widget, a pathway course that earned 0 credits (HIS.CC = 0) in a COVID-affected term also appears in red. COVID-affected terms are Spring 2019-20 (Transcript Definition state term codes H5, H6, Q4, S2, T3), Summer 2019-20 (SS), and the whole 2020-21 school year.



If the College Entrance Requirements option "Does the School Year on HIS records change for the Summer following an academic year?" is selected, the summer after each of those years is recorded on the next year’s transcript.



Below is a screenshot of the Career Pathways page with a non-traditional 0-credit mark in a 2019-20 summer school record and the corresponding Career Pathways widget from the Profile page: