SchooLinks sells CCR software.Xello connects education to workforce.
Great software matters. Understanding education matters more.
Great software matters. Understanding education matters more.
Workflows can move data, complete tasks, and produce reports. They alone cannot help a student imagine a future they haven’t considered, recognize when a plan needs to change, or know when an educator should step in. That takes educational expertise.
Understanding education matters more.
For more than 30 years, Xello has focused on how students become ready for their future. Our approach is grounded in future-readiness research from Dr. Scott Solberg at Boston University’s Wheelock’s Center for Future Readiness and shaped by a team that includes former educators who know how schools actually work.
We start with what good educational practice requires, then build the technology to make it possible for all students and all pathways at scale.
Efficiency is valuable, but completing a workflow is not the same as preparing a student for their future.
Xello is a workflows powerhouse.
It’s true, we’ve got best-in-class workflows operationalized by a team with a deep understanding of education.
Compliance is the minimum. Readiness is the outcome.
Compliance is the minimum. Readiness is the outcome.
We mean both halves.
Xello helps districts manage the requirements, workflows, documentation, data, and reporting that have to get done. We want counselors out of spreadsheets and leaders confident that the work is happening consistently across every school.
Then we help you go further.
Are students clearer about their goals? More confident about their next step? Do they own their plans? Are educators getting time back to support them? Are students connecting their plans to real pathways and opportunities? Can leaders see where readiness is improving?
And ultimately, what happens to students after they graduate?
A national study conducted by Hanover Research found:
- 33% estimated reduction in administrative workload among educators
- 76% reported greater clarity in students' postsecondary goals
- 74% reported increased confidence in postsecondary planning
- 73% reported increased student ownership
That's the progression that matters. Run the system well, then prove it's making a difference.
Don't take our word for it.
Don't take our word for it.
Comparison pages are easy to write, but experience is hard to manufacture.
Hanover Research respondents shared their experience with Xello vs. other college and career readiness platforms and the results speak for themselves:
If you’re considering Xello for your school, talk to our customers. Look at the research. Ask educators what changed. Then ask us to prove it in your district.
Connect school to the world beyond it.
Connect school to the world beyond it.
Understanding how students become ready means understanding that schools can’t do it alone.
Students need real pathways, experiences, people, and opportunities that connect what they’re learning and planning in school to the world beyond it.
Xello makes those connections possible at scale. Our work-based learning technology connects exploration and planning to real opportunities, while giving districts the workflows to manage employers, experiences, participation, hours, documentation, and reporting.
Connecting education to workforce takes more than software: It takes an ecosystem.
We’re the partner to make that happen.
We’re the partner to make that happen.
In Florida, Xello works alongside the Florida Department of Education, CareerSource Florida, the Florida Chamber Foundation, school districts, employers, and workforce partners to help connect students with the opportunities and industries shaping the state’s future.
The result is more than a WBL tool. It’s infrastructure that helps education and workforce work together connecting what students discover in school with pathways and opportunities in the real world.
That’s the difference between managing work-based learning and helping build an education-to-workforce system.
The platform matters. The partner matters more.
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Happy people build better partnerships. When choosing a CCR partner, you aren't just choosing software. You're choosing the people you'll be working with for years.
Xello is founder-owned, mission-driven, and built for the long term. The same belief that started the company more than 30 years ago still guides us today: helping young people build better futures.
And that shows up in our people.
Our teams care deeply about the work, about the educators we serve, and about getting it right. They stay with customers beyond implementation, helping build adoption, navigate change, strengthen practice, solve problems, and make Xello more valuable for our partners year after year.
You deserve a partner as invested in your students as you are.
Set the bar at outcomes.
When you're evaluating a future-readiness platform, don't stop at the feature list.
Getting the answers you need to these questions is critical. Because you're not just buying software, you're choosing the infrastructure and the partner behind what happens next for your students.
We meet you where you are then help you go beyond.
Meet the mandate. Run the workflows. Give educators capacity back. Create consistency across schools. Give leaders better visibility.
We’ve got you: Let’s go further together.
With Xello, you can help students build direction and confidence, connect plans to meaningful experiences and opportunities, and bring employers and the world of work closer to the student journey. But more than that, you can follow what happens after graduation, learn from those outcomes, and make the system even better for the next class.
Imagine being able to tell your board, your families, and your community: “We didn't just get the work done. We built a system that prepared our students for what came next and we have the outcomes to prove it."
That's the bigger potential of future-readiness infrastructure with Xello.
Answers to all your questions about Xello vs. SchooLinks
Xello combines an age-appropriate K–12 student experience with applications, transcripts, recommendations, financial-aid tracking, work-based learning, course planning, requirements, reporting, messaging, integrations, and educator tools. The difference isn't content or workflows.
Xello connects the student journey to the workflows districts need to help students act on it.
Xello's Advising Assistant uses AI-powered student insights and talking points to help educators prepare for more informed student conversations.
We think districts should evaluate AI on more than the number of agents a platform can name.
Ask what the AI helps educators and students do better. What context does it use? How is it governed? Where does human judgment remain? And does it actually improve the readiness experience?
Districts can manage companies, contacts, opportunities, student requests, statuses, documentation, hours, timecards, and reporting. Students can discover and request opportunities while educators coordinate participation and manage program activity.
And because WBL sits within the broader Xello experience, real-world experiences can become part of the same journey students use to explore, plan, and prepare for what comes next.
Educators can review student status, verify or flag evidence, filter and group students, communicate with students who need support, and export results.
Specific automated alerts and state-data reconciliation capabilities should be evaluated based on state, configuration, and package.
For transfer students, educators can map an unmatched course to a similar current course so it counts toward applicable subject-area and prerequisite requirements. Unmatched credits can still count as electives.
Course planning is highly configuration-specific.
Xello also supports state-specific readiness and indicator reporting.
For example, in Texas, the CCMR Tracker brings together Xello, SIS, and scheduled-upload data, distinguishes planned from completed indicators, and supports the state-specific logic districts need to manage CCMR.
State-specific data sources and reporting capabilities should be evaluated based on the requirements that apply to your district.
Graduates can retain full Xello account access while their district's subscription remains active.
But we think there's an even more important question for district leaders:
Do you know what happened next?
With StudentTracker, districts can examine postsecondary enrollment and degree outcomes across prior graduating classes.
Because the purpose of future readiness isn't to get students to graduation: It's to prepare them for what comes after it.
Implementation is just the beginning of the relationship.
Xello's Customer Success and support teams work with districts to strengthen adoption, support educators, navigate changing requirements, solve problems, and continuously improve how Xello supports their future-readiness program.
Your program will change after launch. Your partner should be there when it does.
Xello helps districts connect student exploration and planning with employers, opportunities, and real-world experiences while giving educators the infrastructure to manage those programs.
Xello has also worked at statewide scale alongside education agencies, workforce organizations, employers, and community partners to expand education-to-workforce connections.
For a district, that experience matters.
You're choosing a partner that understands both sides of the connection: education and the world students are preparing to enter.
Don't just compare software.
Bring us your graduation requirements. Your transfer scenarios. Your FAFSA process. Your WBL program. Your reporting requirements. Your implementation challenges. Your goals for students. Then ask us to show you how it all connects.
Because the question isn't about which platform has the longest feature list. It's about which partner helps you successfully and reliably build the future-readiness system your students deserve.