Schools, school districts, community organizations, and businesses may request the AKCIS training sessions listed here. special training sessions are available upon request. for more information or to request a training, contact the AKCIS help desk at (800) 441-2962 option #3 (465-2962 in Juneau) or email AKCIS@alaska.gov.
What is AKCIS?
Description: this training on AKCIS is designed to introduce features in AKCIS beneficial to training attendees. this training can be customized for different groups: students, parents, educators, adult job seekers, and supporting staff. for instruction on how to become a site and/or gain access to administrative tools, please sign up for our '5 steps to getting started' training.
Audience: anyone who wants to learn about the career and education resources in AKCIS
The AKCIS portfolio
Description: An exploration of the AKCIS portfolio, including how students/clients can create one and begin working with the interactive planning tools. This module covers the sections of the portfolio: checklists, career plan, favorites, sort and assessment results, course planner, resume creator, and stored files and links.
Audience: Anyone interested in learning about the AKCIS portfolio and how to use it
Building a Personal Learning and Career Pan (PLCP)
Description: AKCIS is a good option for developing and housing a student's Personal Learning and Career Plan (PLCP). This session walks through saving goals, action plans, exploration, student work, resume information , and assessment results into the AKCIS portfolio. Knowledge of the portfolio tools and their use is required for this session.
Audience: Students, parents, teachers, counselors, college and career advisors
Sizing Up Self-Surveys
Description: Join this session to see how the AKCIS PLCP Self-Surveys (previously Assessments) help students and job seekers use their results to guide their career exploration and create effective Personal Learning & Career Plans (PLCPs).
Audience: Teachers, counselors, college and career advisors
Sharing Through The AKCIS Portfolio
Description: an overview of the ways students, clients, and staff can share portfolio content with others. this session covers visitor accounts, parent accounts, advisor accounts, and 2-way messaging.
Audience: Anyone who has an AKCIS portfolio or is helping others to use portfolios
Building Custom Activity Checklists
Description: An overview of the checklists feature, which allows site administrators to create site-specific checklists of activities for portfolio users to complete both within and outside of AKCIS.
Audience: AKCIS site administrators and staff
Show Me the Money - Using AKCIS for education plans & life after high school
Description: Learn how to use AKCIS to research and compare education options for after high school and research financial aid options.
Audience: High school students and their parents, counselors, and teachers
AKCIS: Resume Creator
Description: In this session, participants will use AKCIS to record, create, and format resumes for school applications, scholarship applications, and employment applications.
Audience: Students, families, teachers, counselors, and administrators of AKCIS site accounts
AKCIS Administrative Tools
Description: Learn how to use the AKCIS administrative tools to create portfolios for students/clients, review site usage, assign activities, and view user reports.
Audience: Staff and administrators of AKCIS site accounts
AKCIS Reporting Tools
Description: Learn how to use the reporting tools in admin and staff accounts to view information like which occupations and schools are most popular among your students/clients and who is utilizing the various planning and assessment tools.
Audience: Staff and administrators of AKCIS site accounts
Using AKCIS With Adults
Description: Learn how to maximize the use of AKCIS tools with adults, including the job seeker version of the career plan, the job search section, and the resume creator. Whether you're serving a population interested in a complete career change or those who just need to get the next job, these tools will help you meet their needs efficiently.
Audience: teachers, counselors, college and career advisors
AKCIS For Middle School
Description: An overview of AKCIS Jr., a version of AKCIS designed for students in grades 6-8, which features a step-by-step plan for working through age-appropriate self-exploration and career planning exercises.
Audience: Middle school teachers, counselors, school administrators
Creating an Implementation Plan
Description: We realize one of your challenges as an educator is finding time to fit career development activities into your class or school schedule. This webinar can help you overcome this challenge by providing a step-by-step guide to creating an implementation plan along with a worksheet to help you organize and prepare your plan.
Audience: Teachers, counselors, college and career advisors, district personnel, administrators
Growing Your PLCP Culture
Description: Improve academic performance, increase the number of students who pursue postsecondary education, help students envision how they fit into the working world, and encourage development and work toward realistic career goals by growing and developing the Personal Learning and Career Plans (PLCP) culture in your school and community.
Audience: Teachers, counselors, college and career advisors, district personnel, administrators
Five Steps to Getting Started
Description: This training provides a quick overview of AKCIS and covers the first five steps to getting started: request a site account, create staff accounts, create groups, unload multiple portfolios at once, and engage your users.
Audience: Teachers, counselors, school administrators