SchooLinks for Students
🧭 SchooLinks: Your Navigator to Map Your Mission
SchooLinks is Modesto City Schools’ comprehensive college and career readiness platform—the essential tool you need to Map Your Mission! Your future is your final destination, and you're in the pilot seat. This dynamic platform provides the resources necessary to explore career interests, discover opportunities, and confidently plan your journey along the 8 Routes to Readiness.
Use SchooLinks to complete your Onboarding, match your personality to career paths, manage your Individual Learning Plan, plan your high school courses, and find personalized scholarship matches. Best of all, as you hit key milestones on your mission, you'll earn digital passport stamps in SchooLinks to track your College and Career Readiness progress, ensuring you're fully prepared for your post-high school life.
🔑 How to Login
Students will be able to log in by simply clicking the SchooLinks tile in our MCS App Portal!
💡 How to Use
🚀 SchooLinks Onboarding Resources for High School Students
These resources—a video and a Google Slides presentation—provide a complete guide to using SchooLinks. You will learn to complete the initial Onboarding, explore your interests with Find your Path and Personality Match, discover Career Clusters, and navigate the platform using the Dashboard Tour. Finally, you'll master the Career Search and College Search tools to start planning your future.
🗺️ Submitting Course Plans for 7th and 8th Grade
This guide walks you through logging in, exploring exciting elective options, and formally submitting your plan. You'll also learn tips for adjusting core classes and selecting alternate choices, putting you in charge of your academic path!
Handout Link
Onboarding and Requesting Transcripts for Seniors
Senior Students will learn how to complete the Onboarding, Find your Path and Personality Match, Career Clusters, Majors, and Requesting and sending out Transcripts in this video.
Application Manager
Students will learn how to complete the Application Manager in this video.
Course Planner
Students will learn how to complete the Course Planner in this video.
Senior End of Year To Do's
Senior To-Do's in SchooLinks before end of year video and promotional video.
Tips and Tricks
Here are some tips to make the most of SchooLinks:
Complete your profile: A complete profile helps SchooLinks provide tailored recommendations and suggestions.
Explore your Resources: SchooLinks offers a variety of resources including college profiles, career assessments, scholarship databases, and more.
Using career assessment tools: SchooLinks provides career assessment tools that can help you identify your interests, skills, and values.
Engage with your counselor: Reach out to your counselor for guidance and support throughout the college and career planning process.
Stay organized and proactive: Keep track of important dates, tasks, and documents and take initiative and actively engage in the college and career planning process.
Troubleshooting
🖥️ Need assistance? Reach out to out to the MCS Help Desk!
Don't see the latest Common App statuses
Students can manually re-sync their data between SchooLinks and Common App if they are not immediately seeing the most up-to-date information after making changes. In College Application Manager, if the student opens up a specific application that they are wanting to refresh data for (such as FERPA form completion), there is a prompt on the right-hand side of the screen in the application summary box at the bottom labeled:
‘Don’t see the latest Common App statuses? Click here to manually refresh!)
