We've put together a 12-minute video to go inside x2VOL and give a basic overview of what the platform has to offer. We'll take a look at both the administrative side and the student view. It's helpful to see the features in action!
There are Academic Transcripts. And there are Service Transcripts. They complement each other to give a holistic view of each student. Together, they describe the person, his or her strengths, interests, achievement, motivations, commitments, goals, and potential. They give a complete picture of the student as a highly qualified candidate for scholarship or college entrance.
In theory, managing St. Agnes’ community service program was simple: students submitted a form at the end of each service activity, the advisor signed off, stored it in a three-ring binder and manually recorded the hours in a log book tracking every student’s efforts. One teacher was assigned to manage each class, either the freshmen, sophomores, juniors or seniors. But as student hours accumulated, so too did the width of the log book and burden each teacher carried. There are over 350 students at St. Agnes. With 100 students per class, one teacher could be monitoring 3,000 hours or more per year.
Have a look at some of the case studies we've done with public schools that use x2VOL. There's nothing better than reading about actual customers who are using our platform to transform their service program.
Explore some of the case studies we've done with private schools that use x2VOL. There's nothing better than reading about actual customers who are using our platform to transform their service program.
Learn more about how Fairfax County Public Schools leverages x2VOL to track, manage, and report on student service. Service learning is an integral part of a student's education in FCPS and x2VOL comes alongside the district to make tracking and reporting on service learning easy for administrators and students.
“In our student learning plan, students set personal, career and academic goals. They do career exploration, they are looking at building a resume. They think about their courses for high school while they are in middle school. They act on those courses and adjust and update as they go through high school. So service learning really is a very important part of that to help kids decide and determine where they want to be after they graduate,” informs Project Manager of Student Learning Plan, Lynette Harris.
In the 50,000-student Frisco Independent School District in Texas, community service is a key part of the school district’s fabric. High school students are encouraged to volunteer with local nonprofit organizations, and students logging at least 100 hours of community service receive special recognition when they graduate.
Dunham School, a preK-12 Christian school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has a total of 679 students with 280 students in the Upper School. Dunham personalizes learning with 1:1 devices, and has recently added new technology to ease management of its ambitious student community service program.
Counselors across the U.S. work extremely hard to help their students have a successful high school career. But a counselor’s journey doesn’t end there. They also help their students find scholarship opportunities and guide them on the college application process. How do counselors do this? It’s not an easy job, but one that takes heart and dedication to the student’s success.
So how do you structure a service learning program? This is one of the earliest decisions that will be (or already has been) made at a school. And, as you probably guessed, no two service programs will be identical because no two schools work identically. Still - there are two main elements that can be found in just about any service programs structure. We'll explore both of those in this post.
