Personalized Graduation Plans (PGP) (Beta)
Last updated: August 21, 2026
The Personalized Graduation Plan (PGP) Beta is an AI-assisted workflow inside Pathways that helps educators create, edit, finalize, and review personalized graduation plans in one place. It combines career goals, post-secondary plans, graduation progress, CTE pathway progress, distinctions, college and scholarship recommendations, and next steps into a living planning artifact.
The PGP is designed to help educators spend less time gathering context from multiple systems and more time using the plan as a real advising tool. It also gives school and district leaders visibility into who has a plan, what students are targeting, and which plans are complete.
This article explains what the PGP Beta does, who can use it, and how to create, edit, finalize, and review a PGP. It also covers meeting agendas, family letters, and reporting.
Who this is for
Recommended roles: Counselors, career specialists, student support staff, school administrators, and district administrators.
Families and students benefit from the output, but the Beta is not a student-facing planning tool.
Access requirements: Your district must have graduation plans configured and CTE tracking configured. Users also need the right permissions to view or create and edit PGPs.
How the PGP works
Counselors start in a student profile, open the PGP tab, and create a new PGP. They enter the PGP name, career goal, career cluster or CTE target, post-secondary plan, and an optional prior PGP reference. Pathways then generates an editable draft using available student data, graduation progress, CTE progress, distinction progress, and recommendation logic.
The plan stays editable throughout the process and educators can revise it directly in the document editor. They may also request changes through chat. The system preserves any manual edits done to the plan.
How to create a PGP
Open a student profile in Pathways.
Go to the Personalized Graduation Plan tab.
Select Create Personalized Graduation Plan.
Enter the PGP name.
Add a prior PGP reference if needed.
Select or enter the career goal.
Select or enter the career cluster or CTE target.
Select the post-secondary plan.
Select Generate Personalized Graduation Plan.
After generation, review the draft carefully before sharing it or relying on it. The PGP uses AI-generated content, so educator review is always required.
What the generated PGP includes
When relevant data is available, the generated PGP should include:
Header and student context
Career opportunities
Recommended career cluster and CTE pathway
Academic progress and graduation requirements
CTE progress
Distinction progress
Post-secondary recommendations
Scholarship and financial aid opportunities
Action steps
If scholarship data is limited, the PGP will report this on the plan. If local or state data is unavailable, recommendations will be generated from national data.
How to edit a PGP
Open a saved PGP from the student profile and make edits directly in the document editor.
You can also ask the chat to revise specific parts of the artifact, such as updating a career goal or making next steps more specific. The updated PGP autosaves when updates are made so no progress is lost.
You can use the document editor for direct changes when you know exactly what needs to change. Use the chat window when you want targeted revisions while keeping the rest of the plan intact.
How to create a meeting agenda
From a saved PGP, select Create meeting agenda.
The agenda is based on the selected PGP and should include opening and goal review, academic progress review, CTE or pathway planning, distinctions and certifications, and next steps and action items. It is editable, printable, and exportable.
How to create a family letter
From a saved PGP, select Create family letter.
The letter generated will be drafted in plain language, will be family-friendly, explain the student’s goals and progress, and include concrete ways the family can support the plan. It is editable, printable, and exportable.
Finalizing a PGP
Counselors can finalize a PGP once required finalization information is present.
Finalization requires attendance type, attendee type, and a saved PGP artifact. Only one finalized PGP per student per school year is allowed. If a finalized PGP already exists, the system should make that status change clear before proceeding.
Finalized PGPs can still be edited during the Beta unless a state-specific configuration requires locking.
PGP reporting
School and district users can review reporting at the district, school, and student levels. Reporting includes counts and percentages of students with no PGP, in-progress PGPs, and finalized PGPs, plus distributions by career goal, career cluster or CTE target, and post-secondary plan. Student-level reporting can also be filtered and exported as CSV.
Frequently asked questions
Can students edit the PGP themselves?
No. The Beta is educator-led, and there is not a directly student-facing view planned. Students benefit from the resulting plan and follow-up communication.
Can I start from a prior PGP?
Yes. You can start from no prior reference, a prior Panorama PGP, or an uploaded prior PGP document. Current Pathways data remains authoritative for current progress and student attributes.
Do I need graduation plans and CTE tracking enabled?
Yes. Graduation plans and CTE tracking need to be enabled for PGPs to be generated and for users to have access to the PGP Beta.