From 2018 Term 4 onwards we will be beginning a process of changing the way we describe Pathways’ Class buckets from "Classes" to "Groups". It's a more generic term that is applicable to far more scenarios, and is a more accurate reflection of the way the feature is used by our customers.
Read MorePathways’ handling of placement cancellations has undergone a big upgrade in Term 3, 2018. We now support more detailed information about the nature and timing of placement cancellations to make reporting and reference in the future far easier.
Read MoreThe updated Version 12 of the Queensland ETES Agreement is now available in Pathways and has been automatically added to the standard Pathways merge document library.
Read MoreThe Host Usage screen in Pathways provides a visual guide to make it easier to spot gaps and patterns in the placements linked to your hosts. The ability to filter by industry and tag also makes it easy to zoom in further to a specific industry, region or a custom host tag
Read MoreUse the new Visit Run Sheet to simplify how teachers visit students in the workplace. Key details, location maps and a layout designed to be printed make it easier for teachers on the road.
Read MoreThe new Pathways Visit Explorer and Planning tool is the fastest way to assign teachers to visit students in the workplace. It provides deep Google Maps integration for assessing transport corridors and two click teacher assignment. Job done!
Read MoreIt's been quite the journey for Pathways and our wonderful customers. In late 2017, the one millionth student placement was coordinated using Pathways. And at the current rate of placement creation, the next million is expected to happen in less than half the time!
Read MoreWith the Galapogas update we have dramatically simplified the way classes are presented to make it easy for teachers to quickly understand who is going where, what opportunities are still yet to be linked to a student, and access placement details with a one click. Where student registrations are being approved by the teacher the new class layout makes everything really obvious, as they typically have limited time for these types of processes.
Read MoreAs students or placements within a class often share key information or processes, a common request has been the ability to perform some bulk updates or additions of values for all students in a class. The new Class Bulk Update tool allows bulk, selective updating of the most commonly changed values for students AND placements linked to a class.
Read MoreAs part of our Galapogas Pathways update in early 2018 you can now send bulk sms messages to teachers linked to your schools. Where a coordinator is managing students and placements across multiple schools, it's become increasingly common to sms teachers in a number of important scenarios.
Read MoreWe are excited to be involved with an initiative to roll our Pathways across the secondary school network within the Brisbane Catholic Education (BCE) community. More than 30 schools have been engaged to create the largest collective of individually operated placement programs on a shared platform in Australia.
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Placement snapshots are new to Pathways this year, and they provide a great way to drill down into placement statistics in a number of useful ways.
Beyond their obvious use for satisfying reporting requirements, they provide a great insight into the nature of placements for your students over time and in different contexts.
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We are happy to announce the updated NSW Student Placement Record (SPR) for schools is now available as a Pathways template. As with previous updates we transform the source template into tables and safe margins to ensure it will merge easily, and drop in the Pathways fields to fill in the gaps.
Read MoreGood News! Over the mid year break, we've been busy updating the Pathways mail merge templates to include the latest 2017 ETES Form.
Read MoreLet’s cut to the chase – we love the new Queensland Agreement fresh out of DET’s kitchen. It’s available as a Pathways template for you to upload from today.
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TAFE Queensland joins the Activ8 Family of Customers for the Schools Program. From the 2017 intake forwards the TAFE Queensland Schools programs will be managed using our Pathways and Elevate platform including portals for applications, school teachers and TAFE Educators.
Read MoreAlmost all of our education customers have programs they run that are not strictly students in the workplace, OR might be sub-programs that are very handy to track separately.
Read MoreActiv8 has a long term contract with the Department of Education in Victoria for Elevate and Pathways software and services to deliver their SWL Statewide Online Portal.
Read MoreOne of the biggest requests in recent years has been to somehow provide select school teachers with read-only access to their own placements and classes, to promote more self-service of information requests and also give teachers huge vision into what's happening with their own placements in real time. Less reports to run!
Read MoreOne of the best ways to simplify mail merge and document production in Pathways is to bundle your documents together in what we call a "Package". Common examples we see in the Vocational Learning field including the Parent Letter, Host Letter and Agreement form in a single file/PDF bundle.
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