What is Xello?
Xello is an engaging online careers education and future-readiness program that prepares students, from years 7 to 13, for future success by supporting them to build self-knowledge, personalised plans, and critical life skills.
Xello offers a truly student-centred experience. Integrated lessons are tailored to individual student's likes and interests. While immersive career, college, and university profiles with rich photography and real-world interviews provide an authentic glimpse into their future. Students can customise their profile avatars, upload files to create unique storyboards, and see how their assessment results affect their future goals. With Xello, you deliver a personalised and engaging careers education experience at scale.
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Mar 2021
Easy to use and student friendly
Nick found Xello:
- Improves attainment“Difficult to say due to covid and missing the opportunity to effectively launch”
- Builds student knowledge“y11 have used it for post 16 destinations”
- Improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Used in lessons to develop lines of interest”
- Reduces teacher workload“One stop shop for all careers related issues and students can track their own progress”

Jan 2021
Its a great resource for children that can work independently, navigate it themselves and get totally immersed in it.
Patricia McKee found Xello:
- Improves attainment“Helps GCSE level students see the requirements for a particular job they are interested in and apply that information to their Vocational Skills work.”
- Builds student knowledge“Learning about careers they never knew existed.”
- Improves teaching efficiency and productivity“I can post assignments and give feedback, similar to google classroom but its nice to have a careers platform that is ultimately for that purpose/subject only.”
- Reduces teacher workload“I still have to produce assignments to follow the prerequisite tasks, to which a lot of the time, a number of students would constantly ask for the meaning/definition of words/phrases etc. for e.g. 'what does enterprising mean?'; 'What does logical mean?' and with pupils working at different speeds I would need to give individual feedback as opposed to general feedback to an entire class had we been working at the same rate and on the same task.”

Jan 2021
It's good, but the lesson bit of it needs more training/explaining for it to be used properly in our setting. Teachers prioritise their lessons and so don't have a lot of time to master new software.
Jo Kitchener found Xello:
- Improves attainment“It seems to make a difference when pupils have an end goal, they can be quite apathetic until a career is pointed out to them that piques their interest. Then they start to get serious about what they need to do to get there. It definitely helps motivate.”
- Builds student knowledge“It helps give them an idea of where to go for courses that interest them, and also highlights careers they may not have considered or even know about beforehand.”
- Improves teaching efficiency and productivity
- Reduces teacher workload“It's a good PHSCCE tool and required very little planning initially.”

Dec 2020
It is up to date and user friendly
Annmarie found Xello:
- Improves attainment“Structure for lessons”
- Builds student knowledge“If a student knows what career they are interested in”
- Improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Helps with developments in lesson”
- Reduces teacher workload

Dec 2020
Very easy to use and informative
Lisa found Xello:
- Improves attainment
- Builds student knowledge“Jobs they didn't know existed”
- Improves teaching efficiency and productivity
- Reduces teacher workload“All resources in one place and task can be set using the platform”

Dec 2020
I think it’s great. We’ve just not had the chance to fully embed it.
Stephen Jackson found Xello:
- Improves attainment“Not been using long enough to comment, especially with Covid”
- Builds student knowledge“This is just an assumption. We’re delivering Xello remotely due to Covid”
- Improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Too early to comment. See above”
- Reduces teacher workload“.”

Dec 2020
It is an excellent program that provides great detail and knowledge for all Year Groups.
Cathal Mervyn found Xello:
- Improves attainment“Students have up to date and practical knowledge of their options at various transition points.”
- Builds student knowledge“Xello provides relevant and up to date information.”
- Improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Xello provides real examples that can assist teaching and learning.”
- Reduces teacher workload“Getting a working knowledge of a new system.”

Nov 2020
Ease of use for both students and teachers whilst also providing an effective and accessible resource for students.
Huma Malik found Xello:
- Improves attainment
- Builds student knowledge“Awareness of careers information available to them”
- Improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Helps provide a more standardised and structured approach to lessons”
- Reduces teacher workload“Lessons are already very well prepared”

Sep 2020
This platform has allowed me to create a bespoke careers programme for all year groups in my school which can be delivered when the class is with me, or virtually. I can see what is being done and report on student progress. Overall, this is the platform I have been waiting for in Careers. However, I have an issue with single sign in for students using c2k wireless in my school. This is making it difficult to get students signed in first time.
Kim BIngham found Xello:
- Improves attainment“Students are able to use the custom lessons and submit their answers”
- Builds student knowledge“Using custom resources and lessons to build knowledge of Careers”
- Improves behaviour or wellbeing
- Improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Ability to upload all lessons so that non-specialist careers teachers are scaffolded in their delivery of careers classes”
- Reduces teacher workload“All lessons are easily accessed and simple to deliver. Ease of access to mark etc.”

Sep 2020
So far the website and its functions are student friendly and very helpful to their future careers
Paul Bamber found Xello:
- Improves attainment“Students have only just started xello”
- Builds student knowledge“Students have a better understanding of jobs available linked to there preference's”
- Improves behaviour or wellbeing“Again only just started xello with the students”
- Improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Everything is in one area rather than using multiple websites”
- Reduces teacher workload“Everything is on the website so teachers dont need to plan certain careers activities”
