Naviance
Naviance is an American college and career readiness software provider that partners with high schools and other K–12 institutions to provide students with college planning and career assessment tools.
Students:
To Log in to your Naviance Account log in to your MCPS Google account and click on the nine dots on the top right of your screen and scroll to Naviance.
If you are new to Naviance you will have been given a code to use the first time you use Naviance. If you are not new to Naviance and have forgotten your password, please email Catharine_E_Heald@mcpsmd.org to reset your account.
Parents:
When students enter the 9th grade parents are sent their registration code for Naviance. You will login here. If you need your account reset please contact Catharine_E_Heald@mcpsmd.org
Naviance Assessments and Resources
The Course Planner ensures that you are on track in school, are meeting graduation requirements and are taking courses that meet postsecondary interests and plans. You can explore choices, options, and view recommendations from teachers and counselors. This is a requirement for 9-12 graders and can be edited as course selections change. Please visit Four Year Course Planner for directions.
How to match your Common Application and Naviance Accounts Common App Matching
Naviance Supermatch College Search tool within Naviance makes it even easier for students to explore their options and discover colleges that are a match with their academic profile and a fit with what they're looking for in a college experience.
The Career Cluster Finder is an inventory that will allow you to match your interests, strengths, and personal qualities with potential career areas or clusters. Your top career areas will be ranked based on your responses.
StrengthsExplorer assesses 10 talent themes for individuals and identifies each student’s three strongest emerging talents, such as Confidence, Dependability, or Future Thinker. It provides explanations of these themes, strategies for capitalizing on each, and action items to help students gain insight into their greatest talents – natural patterns of thought, feeling, and behavior – to leverage in the classroom and in life.
The Career Interest Profiler is an online career interest assessment for students based on Holland codes. It allows students to complete an inventory that analyzes their own interests and pairs the results with potential career matches. NEW Career Exploration for students
Naviance for Students - Tutorial Videos
Naviance for Parents -
Naviance Student is a mobile-responsive site, for both students and parents, that employs intuitive tools that personalize and simplify the college and career planning process. Parents and/or Guardians have mostly view-only access. ... Your district should have sent you a registration code for use with Naviance Student. If you do not remember your login information, please contact your child's counselor or Mrs. Heald
Parents of 9th - 12th graders are able to:
Receive email blasts from the counseling staff
Explore your child's Career Interest Profiler results
Check the scholarship list
View GPA and standardized test scores when available
Explore college admission statistics for B-CC
Parents of Seniors are about to:
View the colleges that are visiting B-CC
Add colleges to the "Colleges I'm thinking about" list
View the "Colleges I'm Applying to" list
Parents are NOT able to:
Sign up students for college visits
Delete or change schools on the student's list
Request transcripts
Important Notes:
Your parent account is SEPARATE from the student account: you are your child have different user names and passwords.
If you have an older child who used Naviance and wish to use the same email address, please notify the counseling office so that we may link the accounts.
If your child registered for Naviance using your email address, you will not be able to use that same email address to register as a parent. The student will first have to log in and change the email address used in the system before you'll be able to register.