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ActivityCareer Readiness

Tracked Outreach to a Real Professional Contact

I am an Educator

I am a Student

About The Activity

Students send three real outreach messages to professionals using tracked links, and see who engages, all during one class period.

What Students Produce and How It's Verified

Every step your students take produces a record. Here's the chain.

  1. Three tracked outreach links generated

    verified

  2. Outreach messages sent externally

    referral data

  3. Engagement captured (opens, clicks)

    verified
Specifications

Student time

One class session, ~45-60 minutes in-class, no homework

Teacher time

30 min training module + ~15 min in-session facilitation

Suggested points

50 total. Three tracked outreach links generated 15 pts · Messages sent externally 20 pts · Engagement captured 15 pts

Who does what

KANU handles

  • Tracked-link generation, referral data, engagement data per link

You handle

  • Deploys assignment; assigns single completion grade
Curriculum Mapping
Mapped to Unit 1

Aligns to

Unit 1 (Pathway to Professionalism, researching companies, leveraging connections)

Aligned course objectives

Why it fits your course

"Reach out to professionals" as an instruction goes nowhere. Actually sending three messages with tracked engagement during class turns networking from theoretical advice into a skill the student has practiced.

How to Add to Your Class
Access via your program catalog
  • Open this experience from your program catalog.
Complete the short training
  • Work through the short training module so you can run the experience with your class.
Invite students, join code
  • Share your join code. Students enrol themselves, so there is no roster to build by hand.
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