What is Xello?

Throughout high school, students should be investing time in exploring their plans for life after high school. Ideally, students should be at the center of their planning experience, building self-knowledge, exploring post-secondary options, creating plans, and continually reassessing as they take in new knowledge, skills, and experiences.

The Issaquah School District uses Xello, an online system, to administer your High School & Beyond Plan lessons. While Xello is full of helpful college and career exploration, you are only required to finish a few core lessons each year. Lessons are straight-forward and will take 1-2 hours per year.

What lessons do I have to do?

You have to complete all core lessons starting with 9th grade*. Use these step-by-step lesson guides for detailed instructions on how to complete lessons: 

• Senior Guide; Resume Lesson 

• Junior Guide 

• Sophomore Guide 

• Freshman Guide *

* 9th grade "4-Year Course Plan" lesson is optional, not required

When are lessons due?

2025 Seniors should have their 9th*, 10th, 11th, and 12th grade Xello lessons done by January 31st, 2025.

Juniors, Sophomores and Freshmen should be caught up on their lessons by the end of the school year. This helps avoid a marathon-session of lessons come senior year. Don’t procrastinate!

Parking Lottery Requirement: Students wishing to participate in the parking lottery for the next school year must be in good Xello standing before they are allowed to pay and join the parking lottery. The lottery typically begins the week before school starts. 

For the '24-'25 Parking Lottery, "good Xello standing" means a student has completed the following Xello lessons:

• Rising Seniors (2025 grads): Grade 9*, 10 and 11 lessons complete

• Rising Juniors (2026 grads): Grade 9* and 10 lessons complete

• Rising Sophomores (2027 grads): Grade 9* lessons complete

* 9th grade "4-Year Course Plan" lesson is optional, not required

How do I sign-in to Xello?

Access is easy, just sign-in to ClassLink and launch Xello from there: https://launchpad.classlink.com/issaquah

Username: ISD computer username: LastFir25 (First 4 last name, first 3 first name, grade year, e.g. Jill Jones JoneJil25)

Password: Your network password (same as the one you use for your school computer and Office 365)

Tip: Try to sign-in while at school, connected to the school network. After this initial setup, you’ll be able to sign in anywhere.

Tip: Try your Student ID# if your current network password doesn’t work. ClassLink passwords reset to Student ID# each year at the start of the year, so it may still be set to your Student ID#.

Still can’t sign-in? You’ll need to get your network password reset by one of our tech specialists. You can contact one of our LHS tech specialists directly or work with one of your College & Career Specialists for help.

What lessons have I completed?

Don't know what lessons you've finished? Use this step-by-step guide to learn how to look up your lesson status in Xello. 

Besides Xello, how can I continue to explore my interests? 

• CollegeBoard's Big Future site: Career Search, Career Quiz, Career Directory, Career Clusters, College majors, and Career Paths for Popular Majors

• 16personalities: Only 10 minutes to get a “freakishly accurate” description of who you are and why you do things the way you do. Take the time to understand what type of person you are and explore the report sections dedicated to career paths and workplace habits for your personality type.

• Work Values Matcher: By careeronestop, a quick card sort exercise where you rank statements to define top values. Work values are our beliefs about what’s most important in our work.

• Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH): provides information on what workers do; the work environment; education, training, and other qualifications; pay; the job outlook; information on state and area data; similar occupations; and sources of additional information. Covers more than 300 occupational profiles, accounting for 4 out of every 5 jobs in the economy.