Ontario IPP mandate
Ontario's Individual Pathways Plan (IPP): Grades 7–12 with Twice-Yearly Review
Under Ontario Ministry of Education's Creating Pathways to Success policy (2013), every student in grades 7–12 develops an Individual Pathways Plan that is reviewed and revised at least twice annually, incorporating evidence of learning.
In Brief
Ontario's Individual Pathways Plan (IPP) is a hard statutory mandate embedded in the province's K–12 education framework. Every student in grades 7–12 must develop an IPP that documents their academic strengths, career interests, learning goals, and post-secondary aspirations. Unlike plans that sit dormant in a filing cabinet, Ontario's IPP is a living document—reviewed and revised at least twice each school year to reflect student progress, changing interests, and emerging evidence of competency. This regular review cycle ensures the plan remains relevant and actionable.
Ontario school boards—not individual schools—typically license platforms like myBlueprint or Xello to manage IPP development and tracking. MyBlueprint, in particular, has deep market penetration among Ontario boards (85%+ adoption). These platforms provide the digital infrastructure for portfolio development, evidence documentation, and educator oversight. Ontario's policy framework emphasizes that the IPP is part of a whole-school, K–12 career education program, so primary and elementary grades prepare the foundation that grades 7–12 students build upon through their formal IPP.
What IPP actually requires
Checked against Creating Pathways to Success: An Education and Career/Life Planning Program for Ontario Schools – Policy and Program Requirements, Kindergarten to Grade 12 (Ontario Ministry of Education, 2013), not against a category description.
Recommended assessment battery for Ontario districts
Sequenced across the 7th-12th grade arc.
Who Ontario districts already use for IPP
Real tools and workarounds we found in use for IPP compliance — not a hypothetical shortlist.
Ontario IPP Key Facts
Related on JobCannon
This page is one of 38 verified career-plan mandate pages JobCannon tracks, each citing a primary statute or regulation — for the Ontario IPP mandate that source is Creating Pathways to Success: An Education and Career/Life Planning Program for Ontario Schools. For the broader rollout picture, see career assessments for school districts, or the JobCannon for Business hub.
District-tier pricing
Scale is $199/mo and covers 200 people per billing period — one person, however many assessments they take, and a class-code arrival counts the same as an emailed invite. Growth is $999/mo for 1,000. Above that, or where enrolment should not be metered at all, it is an Enterprise conversation rather than a larger self-serve plan. A district-sized enrolment runs out of the monthly tiers quickly — the Education Licence below prices your whole enrolment per student for the year, assessments uncapped, and adds the full career and skills corpus.
Free
For micro-teams trying the platform
- ▸10 candidate invites/month (resets the 1st of each month)
- ▸All 164+ assessments
- ▸Premium result for every candidate you invite
- ▸Every candidate profile fully open — nothing blurred
- ▸Share link via email or Slack
- ▸Free trial of the coordinator dashboard
Starter
For solo coaches and small HR
- ▸30 candidates/mo included; extra candidates are $2 each
- ▸All 164+ assessments
- ▸Premium report (archetype + blind spots + work-style brief)
- ▸Coach notes per candidate
- ▸PDF export (client-ready)
- ▸Session prep recommendations
- ▸Candidate progress tracking
Team
For startups, teams and HR
- ▸80 candidates/mo included; extra candidates are $2 each
- ▸Everything in Starter
- ▸Team DNA dashboard
- ▸Compatibility matrix
- ▸Conflict-pattern detection
- ▸Compare 2-3 team members
- ▸Manager prep briefings
- ▸Shared admin access (2 seats)
Scale
For agencies, L&D and scale-ups
- ▸200 candidates/mo included; extra candidates are $2 each
- ▸Everything in Team
- ▸Integrity + social-desirability scales (fake-good detection)
- ▸White-label PDFs (your logo)
- ▸Full assessment API (start, score, retrieve results)
- ▸Custom assessment builder (beta)
- ▸Admin seats not billed per seat
- ▸Priority email support
Growth
For high-volume screening without a contract
- ▸1,000 candidates/mo included; extra candidates are $2 each
- ▸Everything in Scale
- ▸Invoice / PO billing, not just card
- ▸Named support contact with a response-time target
- ▸Annual billing option
Enterprise
For 200+ person companies
- ▸Candidate volume set in your contract, all assessments
- ▸Everything in Scale
- ▸SLA (99.9% uptime)
- ▸Dedicated Customer Success
- ▸Custom integrations built against your tenant (Greenhouse and Ashby ship today)
- ▸Annual billing, invoice payments
Self-serve checkout via Stripe — major cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Link. Cancel anytime; 14-day money-back on every paid plan. Enterprise via the contact form below.
Education Licence — priced per student, per year
One rate per enrolled student for the academic year, sized for Ontario district or school-level IPP rollouts. Assessments uncapped, career and skills corpus included — multiply your own enrolment by the band and you have the most this can cost before you talk to us.
$1.25 down to $0.80 per student, per year — assessments uncapped
That multiplication is a ceiling, not a bill. If our self-serve plans would cover the same number of students for less, you are quoted the lower figure — we do not sell an institution its own students back at a higher price than anyone can buy them for on the pricing page.
District
A large school, multi-school district or trust
per year
- ▸Every assessment in the catalogue, retakes included, no per-assessment charge
- ▸Cohort dashboard with cross-school and year-over-year comparison
- ▸Full career and skills corpus — 2,521 careers, 1,863 skills
- ▸Read the corpus live over the API, or take a versioned snapshot
- ▸Named contact, quote letter formatted for procurement
College or university
A university, college or college group
per year
- ▸Every assessment in the catalogue, retakes included, no per-assessment charge
- ▸Cohort dashboard with cross-school and year-over-year comparison
- ▸Full career and skills corpus — 2,521 careers, 1,863 skills
- ▸Read the corpus live over the API, or take a versioned snapshot
- ▸Named contact, quote letter formatted for procurement
State system
A statewide or national programme
per year
- ▸Every assessment in the catalogue, retakes included, no per-assessment charge
- ▸Cohort dashboard with cross-school and year-over-year comparison
- ▸Full career and skills corpus — 2,521 careers, 1,863 skills
- ▸Read the corpus live over the API, or take a versioned snapshot
- ▸Named contact, quote letter formatted for procurement
£350 per school, per year — a flat whole-school licence rather than a per-student rate, because that is the unit UK schools budget in. Same uncapped assessments and same corpus. Excludes VAT.
The ladder starts at 1,301 students. Below that a self-serve plan already covers your whole roll for less than a licence would, so that is what we will point you at — and UK schools have the flat whole-school licence above at any size. Bands are by enrolment, and the rate applies to your whole roll rather than to a seat count you have to predict. Invoiced annually against a purchase order; no per-assessment charge and nothing to top up mid-year. Assessing an institution's enrolled students is covered by the Education Licence, not by a hiring plan. What is in the corpus.
Request a Ontario district pilot
Tell us how many students you expect to assess in a term and what your review process asks for. If something on your requirements list is not in the product, we will say so in the reply rather than in the pilot.
Both. The IPP is called an 'Individual Pathways Plan' because it maps the student's entire pathway—academic, career, personal, and social. It documents how the student's high school courses, work experience, volunteer involvement, and personal goals align toward a post-secondary destination (college, trades, university, workforce).
Ontario law requires the IPP to be reviewed and revised at least twice per school year. This ensures the plan reflects current interests, new evidence of learning, and progress toward stated goals. Many boards update more frequently (e.g., quarterly or at report-card time).
Evidence of learning includes work samples, certificates (e.g., CPR, language proficiency), co-curricular participation records, summaries of volunteer or work experience, test scores, teacher observations, and student reflections. The IPP portfolio documents growth and competency across multiple domains.
No. Each school board selects its own platform. Most boards use myBlueprint (85%+ adoption), but some use Xello or a custom LMS. However, all boards comply with the same province-wide IPP requirements (twice-yearly review, evidence documentation, grades 7–12 inclusion).
Yes. Career interest and skills assessments (RIASEC, Multiple Intelligences, Skills Audit) can be administered during the IPP planning process and the results documented as evidence of learning in the student's portfolio. The assessment output (printable career guide) becomes part of the portfolio and informs pathway decisions.
Ontario's IPP mandate does not legally require use of a specific platform or software; boards are free to manage IPPs using paper, spreadsheet, or LMS as long as they meet the review and evidence-documentation requirements. myBlueprint is the incumbent but not mandated.