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Six additions built with guidance counsellors during the last CAO cycle. Each clip below is the real interface your school gets — nothing staged.
NewBackdoor Routes
A student searches the course they missed and sees every documented alternative route into that exact degree — PLC links, ladder progression, HEAR, DARE, mature entry, access years and more.
NewCAO Points 2026 vs 2025
First-round 2026 points for every course set against 2025's first and final round, so a class can see what actually moved instead of guessing from headlines.
NewAccommodation Guides
The questions that land on your desk every September, answered per college: real on-campus prices, lottery rules, digs, deadlines and the timing trap between spring bookings and August offers.
NewWorksheet Library
Every sheet you would otherwise photocopy: 1st to 6th year, TY, LCA and a cross-year counsellor toolkit, mapped to the NCGE guidance strands and carrying your school crest.
NewControlled Results Release
Hold any assessment's results back until you have sat down with the student. You see the full report immediately; they see it when you release it.
NewAssessment Requests
A student who wants an extra assessment sends a request from their dashboard instead of an email. Approving it allocates the assessment there and then.
Last updated: July 2026
CourseCompass is a complete digital guidance platform for Irish secondary schools. It gives every student 14 assessments and quizzes the guidance counsellor can assign: 12 assessments (Course Compass, Subject Interest Profile, Learning Style Assessment, Metacognitive Awareness, Personality & Teamwork Style, Career Values & Motivation Assessment, Study Skills & Exam Readiness Profile, Digital Skills & Future Readiness, Wellbeing Reflection, Transition Ready Assessment, PLC Compass and Apprentice Compass) and 2 quizzes (CV Knowledge Quiz and ATS & CV Basics Quiz), CAO course matching, and career investigation modules, while guidance counsellors and school leaders track progress in real time through admin analytics and exportable reports. Schools can start with a free trial.
“Give students the tools to understand what they are suited for before they commit, and give the counsellors who support them a way to track progress in real time”
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Watch our walkthrough of the full School Package — from student assessments to the admin analytics dashboard.
Every assessment, tool and admin feature above — plus analytics, teacher portals, and bulk onboarding — included as standard.
Aligned with NCCA Senior Cycle reform and the DES guidance counselling frameworks. Supports whole-school guidance planning.
Qualifies as a digital classroom resource under the Department of Education Book Grant Scheme. Replace printed guidance workbooks.
Automates career profiling, report generation, and student tracking so guidance counsellors can focus on meaningful one-to-one support.
Longitudinal student tracking, exportable analytics, class-level reporting, and AI-generated summaries for parent-teacher meetings.
Full GDPR and NCCA compliance with role-based access control, consent management, audit logging, and data retention policies.
Beyond the assessments, share our free library of CAO guides, subject-choice help, grant eligibility explainers and student accommodation advice with students and parents.
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CourseCompass is an Irish company working with post-primary schools across the Republic of Ireland — Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway, Waterford and rural schools in every county. Everything is written for the Irish system: Leaving Certificate subjects and grading, the CAO offer cycle, PLC and further education awards, apprenticeships, HEAR, DARE, SUSI and the NCGE guidance framework. Schools pay from €14 per student per year, can spend under the Book Grant Scheme, and can start with a free trial before any payment.
A guidance counsellor allocates assessments to a class or a whole year group, watches completion in real time, reads each student's combined profile with course, PLC and apprenticeship matches, and decides when the student sees their own results. Reports export as branded PDFs for parent meetings, subject choice evenings and CAO planning.
Psychometric assessments for interests, aptitude, personality, learning style, values and wellbeing, combined into one student profile.
Documented alternative entry routes into CAO courses — PLC links, ladder progression, HEAR and DARE, mature and access entry — each with its source.
Round 1 2026 points beside 2025 rounds, searchable and sortable by biggest rises and falls.
Students convert Leaving Cert grades to points and immediately see courses that landed in that range.
Sourced student housing guides per college with published on-campus prices, lottery rules, digs and deadlines.
131 printable guidance worksheets across all year groups, auto-branded with the school crest.
60+ structured career modules with slides and certificates, ready for Transition Year and Senior Cycle classes.
Staff see every report first and choose when each student's results unlock.