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Welcome to the Southern Cross University school's recommendation of portal for our early offer program. This video aims to give you some step-by-step instructions to use the portal and some of you may be familiar with our old portal and we want to make it as easy as possible for you to understand the new steps to go through to make your students the best possible offer with our University as we can.

You would have received an email from us with a link to the new portal with your username and password details. If you don't have these please go ahead and send us an email or give your future students officer a phone call and we can make sure that they reach you as soon as possible.

To log into the new portal all you have to do is type your username and your password and once you login you can stay logged in and we have accessibility mode as well. A feature of the new portal is that you can now reset your password should you need to right here through the Forgotten password link and if you want to have a look at our terms and conditions they're here as well.

Once you've logged on to your portal this is where you'll have specific information relating to you your students in the school for you the most important thing will be here in the early offer recommendation dashboard. If you need help if you want to click through and watch this video or find some more information you have the link here if you need to download and read the recommendation guide or go through what some of the more detailed information is go ahead and click through here for now we'll go in here to the earlier for recommendations dashboard.

Now we're going to go through the process of making a recommendation for your student so we're going to click on here going to go to the fourth student down and have a look at this student who's applied to study a bachelor of Education with Southern Cross University.

So it will take you through here and you'll find a lot of useful information some general details about what our portal is what our early offer is the great thing about our early offer program at Southern Cross University is that every single student will be offered a place in one of our programs so if a student doesn't quite have the background or the marks needed to get directly into a degree program of their choice we have three pathway programs that may go straight into a diploma or associate degree which actually gives them direct credit and they won't lose any time in their degree at all and they'll go straight into their program of choice, be that business, engineering, health.

We also have two free pathway programs for ATAR students we have the Transition to Uni which is a free six-week course so that students can do this before the university semester starts or the session starts and they can then go straight into their degree of choice and be fully prepared for the degree they want to do and for students who need a little bit more support or non-atar students we have a 12-week free Preparing for Success program that students can take face-to-face or online and research shows that students who've successfully gone through this program have fantastic results in University and are really successful in their programs.

As we go down we're going to have a look at the student that we've chosen who wants to study a bachelor of education so it gives us their name what they want to study we know their current grade 12 student because that's what makes them eligible for this Early Offer program and next we want to know if they're eight are eligible or not, is the student studying in atar? The student is going to study a NATO and if you get this message pop up these notifications it'll disappear after a few seconds or you can X out of it.

So if a student is studying an ATAR like this student, what we're interested in is their predicted ATAR. What do we think their ATAR is going to be? There's a number of calculators that are available that you may choose to use sometimes students already know what their predicted atar is and in your conversations with them you may know this and basically we trust you to make the assessment on behalf of the student as the person who knows the student better than anybody and we go in here and we put the associated score for this student which will help us understand in an objective way if the student is prepared for the study that they've chosen.

So this particular student is predicted to have an atar of 80 which means they can go ahead and be recommended into the Early Offer program before their degree of choice which is The Bachelor of Education which means you'll see them here if you have a long list and there's something that's gone wrong you can always go back you can always remove the last student but if you've gone ahead and done all your recommendations you can then submit.

And that's how you complete your recommendations if you want to do them one by one like I did that's great or you could do 10 or 20 at a time and submit at the end you can choose how it works for you and when you have completed them in your version you'll see the completed recommendations in this table here and you'll see any other student outcomes here in this table as well so what happens if a student doesn't have an ATAR or they may not have the score that we're looking for or you may feel they're not quite ready to take their degree of choice.

So if we go back to our Bachelor of Education student, we can see all the details here there's no difference you click on make recommendation is the student data eligible and we say yes they are and the student isn't quite on track to get the score they need to get in and they're headed for a lower a low ATAR and in this case this would get them direct entry into a diploma which will give them direct credit into the Bachelor of Education degree. On completion if that's not quite the best option for the student we have a lot even lower atar what we have is the Transition to UNI program the free six-week program online for students before the University academic year starts and that student will be offered a place in that program and guaranteed entry into their bachelor of choice.

What if the students not taking an ATAR at all? So we've ended up back at this student with a Bachelor of Education we've gone back to the drop-down to say that they are not ATAR eligible, but a lot of students may have completed a certificate or a diploma while they've been at school and if that's the case you can choose these as the qualification instead of the predicted atar and it will go ahead and correlate to the degree or the program that they can gain entry to here at Southern Cross certificates in this case would let the student into our diploma of arts and social sciences a direct pathway into their bachelor degree with guaranteed entry and with credit if they've done a certificate for the student would get direct entry into the bachelor degree so you can see here we'd recommend the Early Offer for them go ahead and offer them a place in The Bachelor of education and if a student's done a diploma while they've been at school there will also be granted direct entry into the bachelor degree the student has no ATAR doesn't necessarily mean they have a certificate or a diploma they may have no additional qualifications then we would go ahead and have a look at putting them in our Preparing for Success program the free 12-week preparation program where on completion a student can get direct entry into any degree of their choice at Southern Cross University. So you would complete the recommendation, you would see them here, and you would submit that recommendation just like we did previously with a student got direct entry into the bachelor's degree.

So that's how you go ahead and do your recommendations you can download different forms here to keep a record for yourself you can log into this portal anytime and of course you can always contact one of us here at Southern Cross University for further assistance and we were more than happily walk you through the process talk you through over the phone or just answer any general questions you may have about the programs about the process we are here to help you at any time.