Welcome to MAP





MAP provides students with multiple resources for improving their:

  • GPA
  • ACT scores
  • scholarship eligibility
  • college and career readiness
  • employability



MAP Video Overview


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General Overview (00:06:22) MAP general overview



  1. What is the MAP Counselor Portal?
  2. How is access granted to the MAP Counselor Portal?
  6. Why did Iowa State University create the MAP system?
  10. What grade levels are appropriate for the MAP system?
  11. How does our district begin using MAP?
  13. What are the technical requirements for using MAP?
  16. What type of technical support is available for MAP?
  17. Does MAP require a specific type of browser?
  18. Does MAP include specific activities for each grade level?

    MAP is not organized into grade levels.  Rather, MAP is designed to guide students through a series of progressive steps:

    1. Exploring your values, interests, and skills.
    2. Identifying a career which best matches those values, interests, and skills.
    3. Planning your high school courses based upon the career pathway that interests you most.
    4. Exploring your college/career readiness.
    5. Exploring your options beyond high school by selecting a college major or training program, and then selecting an institution which offers your major or training program.

    While teachers may choose to spread these steps out over multiple terms, MAP is actually designed for students to go through the entire system in one term. 

    However, MAP is not a one-time exercise!  We know your students’ interests and abilities are constantly changing as they grow, as is the world of work around them.  Your students who complete the MAP system will receive occasional email messages while they are progressing through high school encouraging them to keep returning to MAP to:

    • Re-take the values, interests, and skills inventories
    • Re-explore their career and post-high school training options based upon their shifting values, interests, and skills
    • Update their high school course plan based upon any changes in their career goals
    • Update their academic information at the end of each term to see how this has impacted their college/career readiness
  21. How do my students create their MAP account?