Helping You Succeed
The College In Colorado team is working hard to provide tools,
resources and assistance to educators and workforce personnel
throughout Colorado. Everything we offer is free-of-charge.
Although we have provided links to pages of materials and resources
here, don't forget to visit the Professional Center
for even more helpful information. If you need
your Professional Account Access Key (PAAK) or Administrator Code
(AC), contact .
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Colorado ASSET
Are some of your students without proof of legal U.S. residency
and wish to attend a Colorado public college or university? Learn
whether they may be for in-state tuition and understand
the to help them with this
process. College In Colorado has to assist families and students to take advantage of
Colorado's ASSET legislation.
ICAP Simplified and Expanded
College In Colorado completed significant improvements to that help you build your ICAP
(Individual Career and Academic Plan) system quickly and easily.
View the online form to see when you may participate in
a scheduled training on ICAP implementation tools and tracking
reports. College In Colorado has everything you
need to meet ICAP requirements in a free, customizable way.
In addition, the Colorado Department of Education has released
to support your
efforts.
Phone Support
Do you have students or parents that could use help on
CollegeInColorado.org, financial aid or other questions? We have a
dedicated phone line for assistance in English or Spanish; dial
.
Low Cost Broadband for Families
Comcast has announced enhancements to its Internet Essentials
program that offers low cost ($10/month) broadband service,
computers ($150) and training to low-income students and their
families. For general eligiblity information, visit ().
View the on-line form to identify and participate in
upcoming professional development opportunities or take a look at
the recorded
Webinars and online tutorials available for use.
Let us
know how we can help your student or clients. While our primary
focus is now providing outreach to underserved minority
populations, their families and their schools/districts, we will
continue take requests from others that are not in our cohort of
targeted schools/districts into consideration provided our time and
resources allow. We encourage you to make your request, and if our
schedule cannot accommodate your request, we will suggest alternate
resources, if possible.
Download or
request extensive ICAP worksheets and templates, or financial
aid, middle school, high school and educators' resources, brochures
and materials.
Counselor E-News
Periodically College In Colorado prepares an e-newsletter
especially for school counselors, packed with useful information
- us
if you wish to receive it.
Data Resources
The Colorado Department of Higher Education has published
its new database tool, . The tool provides detailed district-specific
information on college enrollments and first year postsecondary
outcomes for Colorado's graduating class of 2009. Over time,
additional cohorts will be added.
College In Colorado has an important data aggregation tool for
school districts called Report Central
. This tool provides district-wide
aggregation of student work on CollegeInColorado.org. It gives
districts the power to build a custom report for one school,
several schools or all schools and choose the type of report from
among more than 35 usage and outcome reports.
The College In Colorado Professional Center has nearly 40 usage and outcome reports, including
milestone tracking, ICAP monitoring and plan of study/parental
sign-off completion reports for each school. If you need your
Professional Account Access Key (PAAK) or Administrator Code (AC),
contact
Batch Account Creation
The School Finance Act of 2009 specified that each 6th grade
student have a CollegeInColorado.org account. College In Colorado
has greatly reduce any additional burden these requirements may
impose through batch account creation.
If a school can create a .csv-formatted file (such as an Excel
spreadsheet) from their Student Information System that contains
the correct student data, CollegeInColorado.org will create,
free-of-charge, an account for each student in the file. Download
step-by-step instructions here .
We have bundled together helpful information and links to
resources and Websites off-site.
Every October is College Application Month. Get information,
resources and ideas to host this important initiative at your
school.