For students who are required to have Letters of Recommendation for their applications, two different scenarios need to be addressed: Teachers who are still with OCPS and Teachers who are not with OCPS.

Quick Overview for Requesting Letters of Rec - TO SHARE WITH STUDENTS (only applies to students requesting OCPS employees): Letter of Recommendation steps.pdf
Note: Students must request their counselor as a recommender AFTER they have connected their Common App and Xello accounts, steps below:
- - How students link their Common App and Xello
  - How students request a School Counselor

How Students Request Teachers who ARE with OCPS:

Once a student has added a college or university of choice in Xello and Common App, then the options to submit letters of recommendation will be populated. Some post-secondary institutions do not require any letters of recommendation, so if it does not populate, then it is not a required document.

1. Go to Plans and select College Applications. The student will be able to see all the college/universities that they have selected and added in Common App.

2. Select the Teacher Evaluations option (if available).

3. Select request

4. The student will select the school where the teacher is currently located and select them (If a staff member isn’t listed, they likely don’t have Xello access due to not being rostered to a class: See next steps for that staff member).

5. Once the student has selected the teacher and hits send, the teacher will receive an email below. TEACHERS DO NOT USE THE SIGN IN BUTTON, USE LAUNCH PAD TO ACCESS XELLO.

6. Once you have received the email detailed in Step 5. Access Xello through your OCPS LaunchPad, then use the video below to guide you through submitting (more details covered here in Steps 1-10, use PDF format). For School Counselors, when viewing requests, make sure to View Request>Common App or under document requests, use the filters to ONLY list counselor recommendations:

How Students Request Teachers who are NOT with OCPS:

Students will request a letter from someone outside of OCPS directly through the Common App. Below is a screenshot of what students will see when they are attempting to request an outside recommender.

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