What Is Guidance Central and How Do Students Access These Programs?

Guidance Central consists of three components:

Choices Planner - An advanced online career information delivery system that helps students build powerful plans as they compare, connect and choose from a vast network of work and education options. Valid and reliable assessments are used in this program, to help the user relate their interests, aptitudes and work values to occupations, plus inputting personal preferences into their career search.

Choices Explorer - An engaging online education and career exploration system that provides extensive libraries of education, career and recreation articles in an interactive magazine-style format. Hundreds of classroom activities can be found through this program.

testGEAR – An online tool that gives students the practice they need to reach their full potential on the college entrance exam ACT™. This online learning system adapts to each student’s needs by targeting their weaknesses and helping them to build necessary skills.

Accessing These Programs

testGEAR and Choices Planner are available to students at all North Dakota high schools, public and private. Choices Explorer is available at all middle/junior high schools, public and private. Contact your local school's Guidance Counselor for information on how the programs will be utilized at the school and how the students can access the programs. Once a student has the access information, they begin by creating a "Portfolio," which allows them to save and track their progress. The programs are available online, 24/7, allowing students to work with the programs at school, home, the library - wherever they have internet access.

For more information, contact the North Dakota Career Resource Network office at ndcrn.ndcareer@sendit.nodak.edu.