The UCAS/Discovery toolkit aims to help your students explore uni, apprenticeships, careers and all kinds of possibilities after school or college. More importantly, it focuses on helping them discover what’s important to them and their future, and gives them the information and advice they need to keep moving forward with their future plans. I hope you and your students find the resources below both useful and enjoyable.
Samantha Sykes,
UCAS Lead Digital Learning Developer, and fellow former teacher
Step 1 – Book your place
Students, parents and guardians, yourself and colleagues, everyone is welcome to attend, but they’ll need to register individually to get the best experience and access to features like live messenger chat with exhibitors and on-demand content.
Send reminders to your studentsStep 2 – Get ready
Introduce your students to UCAS/Discovery and get them one step ahead with our pre-event activities.
Introducing your class to UCAS/Discovery (presentation and video) (133.01 MB)
Prep activities (264.37 KB)
Step 3 – Join the live event
A 'Discover your options' zone to get your students thinking, a live lounge packed full of interactive sessions, the chance to meet universities and colleges, or employers and apprenticeship providers, and Q&As with current students and apprentices…
With so much on offer, we’ve created a checklist and series of activities for you to engage the entire class, or for your students to takeaway for self-led study.
- Discovery Day activities and checklist (269.39 KB)
Step 4 – Take time to reflect
Once your students have attended UCAS/Discovery, use our post-event activities to help them take in everything they’ve learnt and create an action plan for their next steps.
- Reflective and action planning activities (264.21 KB)
Help us spread the word
- Student invite (89.68 KB)
- Parent/guardian invite (94.09 KB)
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If you have any feedback or are looking for some additional support materials, please let us know.
Technical support for joining from class
To make sure you and your students can join and get the best experience from the event, we recommend you:
- Check with your IT department that the site is not blocked on your school network and share this technical briefing (307.39 KB) with them to avoid any potential issues.
- Join on a PC or Mac desktop computer, rather than a mobile phone.
- Use the recommended browser, Google Chrome.
- Close any other applications to avoid distractions, but to also help prevent any potential technical issues.
Experiencing technical problems on the day? Get in touch at events@ucas.ac.uk