Ohio Career Information System
Developing College and Career Ready Students
***Teachers please help your student create an individual Career Portfolio. Here are steps 1-4.
OCIS Login and First Steps for Creating an Individual Career Portfolio
These will be the initial steps you will take with your student. Your student will create their own Career Portfolio with their own username and password with your help. After this one time, students will login to the site on their own from anywhere at any time, even after they graduate from high school.
Step 1:
Go to the OCIS login page using the website address below. Sign in as a teacher using the username and password below.
Davidson Bradley Darby
http://ocis.org http://ocis.org http://ocis.org
username: Hilldavid username: bradleyhs username:
password: ohiocis03 password: ohiocis03 password: ohiocis03
Step 2:
On the screen on the top right hand side will be the name of your home school. Click on Create "My Portfolio".
Step 3: Existing Users:
Use your username and password you entered when you created your "My Portfolio" account.
User name:________________
Password: _________________
click the Sign In button
New Users:
Create "My Portfolio" to save and return to the results of your research.
Create "My Portfolio" ~~~~~~~Step 3 continued: Click on Create "My Portfolio"
Step 4: Help your student Create "My Portfolio"
Have your student complete the required fields.
Suggestion: If possible, have the student use their school username and password.
Click on Submit.
FYI- There is an Administrative Tool for teachers to access the students' usernames and passwords in case they forget. This tool also lets you see when they have logged on and what parts of the OCIS system they have used.
Have the student Click on "Continue".
Step 5: IDEAS Interest Inventory
That will bring you back to the OCIS main page. On the far left side toward the bottom, have the student CLICK on IDEAS. This is a Career Interest Inventory. Have the student follow the directions and complete this inventory. Make sure the student clicks on SAVE at the end of each activity or it won't be saved in their Career Portfolio.
Step 6: Reality Check
On the OCIS Main Page, on the far left side CLICK on Get A Reality Check.
Make sure you remind the students to SAVE everything they do to their Career Portfolio.
Use your username and password you entered when you created your "My Portfolio" account.
User name:________________
Password: _________________
click the Sign In button
New Users:
Create "My Portfolio" to save and return to the results of your research.
Create "My Portfolio" ~~~~~~~Step 3 continued: Click on Create "My Portfolio"
Step 4: Help your student Create "My Portfolio"
Have your student complete the required fields.
Suggestion: If possible, have the student use their school username and password.
Click on Submit.
FYI- There is an Administrative Tool for teachers to access the students' usernames and passwords in case they forget. This tool also lets you see when they have logged on and what parts of the OCIS system they have used.
Have the student Click on "Continue".
Step 5: IDEAS Interest Inventory
That will bring you back to the OCIS main page. On the far left side toward the bottom, have the student CLICK on IDEAS. This is a Career Interest Inventory. Have the student follow the directions and complete this inventory. Make sure the student clicks on SAVE at the end of each activity or it won't be saved in their Career Portfolio.
Step 6: Reality Check
On the OCIS Main Page, on the far left side CLICK on Get A Reality Check.
Make sure you remind the students to SAVE everything they do to their Career Portfolio.