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? When are they due?
Students are responsible for completing their Xello grade-level classes. For example, Seniors need to complete the 12th-grade lessons, Juniors need to complete the 11th-grade lessons, and so on. Completion of prior years' classes is no longer required.
HSBP lessons are delivered during Homeroom/Flex Time during the school day. Running Start students, or those who miss an HSBP lesson due to an absence, can access the HSBP lesson PowerPoints, which include the instructions needed to complete each year's Xello activity.
2025 Seniors should have their 12th grade lessons done by January 31, 2025. Juniors, Sophomores and Freshmen should complete their lessons by March 25.
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.
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.
Besides Xello, how can I continue to explore my interests?
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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
