T Level Student Induction Guide

An induction guide for T Level students, walking you through logging in to Navigate, completing your Skills Self Assessment, confirming placement attendance, and writing reflective journals that build your Digital CV.

What is Navigate?

Navigate is an online space where you can bring together all those enriching activities, valuable employer interactions, and real-world work placements. You can explore your skills, see what you're great at, and discover areas where you can grow. There is also a career quiz designed to connect your interests with potential job paths. All this information about your experiences and skills, alongside your academic achievements, culminates in a dynamic Navigate Digital CV that truly represents the multifaceted individual you are.

How to log in and save a bookmark

Logging in: Click Login using Microsoft and use your college username and password.

Save Navigate to your device:

• On mobile (Android or iPhone): once you have logged in, save Navigate to your mobile home screen.
• On desktop: click the star at the end of the search bar to save Navigate to your favourites.

How to complete your T Level Skills Self Assessment

1. Click Start New Skills Assessment.
2. Choose the 'T Level Skills Self Assessment'.
3. Answer each question as honestly as you can.
4. Complete this at the start and again at the end of your course.

View your results: Click View Results. Any skill shown as green is one you are strong in. Any that are amber or red are skills you may need to focus on improving.

Confirming your placement attendance - hours worked and breaktimes

Each placement day you are required to confirm your attendance in Navigate:

1. Click on your placement in the Placement module.
2. Click I attended or I did not attend.
3. Confirm how much time you spent at your placement today. If you worked longer or less than your scheduled hours, you can amend this. If your scheduled hours are incorrect, let your co-ordinator know.

If your placement day is more than 4.5 hours, your scheduled breaktime is removed automatically and calculated in the 'Student Confirmed Placement hours' and 'Employer Confirmed Placement hours'. You do not need to amend your hours to accommodate this.

Writing your journal entries - top tip

Saving Navigate as a bookmark on your device lets you access the Speech to Text function. When you click into the description box on your journal entry, click the microphone icon to activate it. Now you can dictate your journal and your device does the hard work. Make sure you proofread it to amend any errors.

Adding journal entries as evidence to your T Level targets

As part of your T Level Industry Placement, you need to evidence that you are working towards your learning objectives by adding evidence to Technical and Employability targets. Each time you confirm your attendance, you have the option to add that placement day to relevant target(s). Simply scroll to the bottom of the form when confirming your attendance and writing your journal, and tick the relevant targets your placement day activities relate to.

Completing your T Level targets

When your co-ordinator schedules the Final Review for your Industry Placement and you have almost completed your target hours (315 or 750), click into each of your technical and employability targets, link all the evidence that relates to each target, and Mark as complete. This is the evidence your co-ordinator requires to complete your final review and ensure you have met your objectives.

Writing reflective T Level journal entries

Questions to ask yourself when writing your journals:

• What did you do today?
• What did you achieve today?
• What did you learn today?
• What questions did you ask today?
• What skills have you developed?
• What did you find interesting?
• What did you find challenging?
• Did you feel more confident, knowledgeable or accomplished after your activity or placement day? Why?
• What can you improve on?
• How can this experience or activity help you in the future?
• At your placement, who did you speak to? What do they do? What information did they share with you?
• At your placement, what will your next task be?

Remember to link the journal to your targets.

Navigate Training Hub and Navbot

The Navigate Training Hub hosts all our short instruction videos and simple guides. Click the Navbot, which is always ready to answer any Navigate question - type your question or click the microphone to speak.

Source document attached below.