Most examinees will be invited to join the COPSystem by a counsellor. As an examinee, you may be given a set of instructions entitled “Instructions for COPSystem Examinee Account Creation” that contains directions, as well as your counsellor’s unique registration link. Or your counselor may choose to send an email with a link to the appropriate registration form.

Here a few things to remember:

• Use the link provided to navigate to the registration form and fill out the necessary information. We take privacy seriously and do not share your personal information with anyone. Feel free to view our privacy policy.
• Once you have successfully registered for an examinee account, using either the registration link or code that your counselor provided, you will automatically be assigned assessments. If you do not see any assessments after registering, please contact the administrator who invited you.

Yes. It is now possible to take the COPSystem on your own to help you identify new career opportunities using a unique career profile based on your interests, values and abilities.

Retrieve your password by using the password retrieval feature located on the sign in page. Enter your email address in the field and our system will send you an email with further instructions.

Here are a few things to remember:

• In order to use this feature, a valid email address must have been provided when your account was created.
• If this is not the case, then please contact the counsellor who invited you to join the COPSystem, or contact EdITS online support.

Please contact your counsellor so that they can look up your unique username. If you are unable to contact your counsellor, please contact EdITS online support and we will be happy to help.

The time required to complete and score each assessment varies:

1. The Career Occupational Preference System Interest Inventory (COPS) takes about 30 minutes for most examinees to complete. Reading level and ability to focus on tasks for an extended period of time are the primary factors that determine how long it will take to complete. Please remember that you may return to the COPS at any time until it is completed.

2. The Career Ability Placement Survey (CAPS) is an ability battery that consists of eight 5-minute sections. Including reading the instructions for each test and actual testing time, it will take about an hour to complete this battery. Once you leave a section that has been started you will not be allowed to return to that section. However, you may stop between tests and return to the next one at any time.

3. The Career Orientation Placement and Evaluation Survey (COPES) takes about 30 minutes. Reading level and ability to focus for an extended period of time will determine whether it takes longer to complete this assessment. You may return to the COPES at any time until it is completed.

If you have technical questions about the COPSystem please contact our technical support staff at online@edits.net or call us on 0405 383 210.

With some browsers it may be necessary to refresh your results page in order to load the new results information. To do this, press the “F5″ key on your keyboard, or click on the “refresh/reload” icon in your browser’s navigation bar. This may differ slightly depending on the browser you are using. Also, some counselors choose not to display results until they can discuss them with you. If this is the case, a message will be displayed telling you to contact your administrator.

Changing your account information is easy. After you have successfully signed in to your account, click on ACCOUNT in the upper right-hand corner of your screen to access user account information. Update your account information. Once you have made all of your changes in the appropriate fields, select the Update Settings button at the bottom of the screen.

The administrative structure of the COPSystem is multi-tiered. You may deploy the COPSystem at your school/organisation by giving each administrator different levels of access.

Here a few things to remember:

• There are three levels of administrators: Supervisors, Site Administrators and Counsellors.
• All administrators are able to create examinees, assign tests, and work directly with examinees – the primary difference is that lower level administrators may not be able to view other administrators’ examinees.
• Counsellors are only able to work with those examinees who are directly affiliated with them (i.e., examinees they have invited).

In order to take assessments, students/clients must first create an examinee account. There are three ways to create these accounts:

• The first option is to invite your students/clients to join the COPSystem by sending them an automatic invite from your administrator account so that they can create an examinee account on their own. This invitation automatically assigns all three COPSystem assessments at the time they create an account. This method is recommended by EdITS.
• The second option is to invite examinees using the “Instructions for COPSystem Examinee Account Creation” email provided to you by EdITS (if you did not receive the instructions directly from EdITS, please invite your examinees via email, as described in step 1). You may distribute copies of the the email to anyone who you would like to register for an examinee account. The email contains instructions for creating an examinee account as well as a link with your unique 7-digit code that will link them to your administrator account. When you use this option your examinees will automatically be assigned all three assessments.
• The third option is to create examinee accounts for your students/clients.

It is only possible to assign tests to your students/clients if they have already registered for the COPSystem by creating an examinee account.

It is important to remember that examinee accounts are always linked to the counsellor account of the person who assumes the role of a proctor. Therefore, an administrator is only able to assign tests to an examinee if she/he is linked to the examinee, either as their counsellor or as another more senior level administrator from the institution.

No. A nice feature of the COPSystem is that every administrator account is automatically assigned the COPSystem assessments. We do this so that every administrator has the opportunity to view and take the assessments in the same manner as their examinees.
In order to access your assessments, however, you must sign in at the examinee sign in page.