Access to ProTools is granted to eligible North Carolina education professionals. To gain access to ProTools, you must first have a CFNC.org account with your school-issued email address. Once you have established your CFNC.org account, you can request ProTools access from your District or School-Level ProTools Administrator. If you do not know your ProTools Administrator, you can request access via ProTools Help using the Submit a Request form. Select "Request New ProTools Account" in the topic drop-down list and complete the necessary information.

If you cannot access your CFNC.org account (forgot password or username) or you are having issues creating a new account, please call 866.866.CFNC (2362) and select option #5 or email program.information@cfi.org.

One helpful feature of ProTools is the ability for schools and organizations to offer granular permissions to features for their ProTools users. This means that not all ProTools users have access to all features since permissions are controlled at the Administrator level for each organizational unit (such as a school, college, district, or organization).

Here are the three roles within ProTools:

1. ProTools User - able to access ProTools and use features based on the permissions granted by an Administrator.
2. School-level Administrator - able to add and remove access and permissions for school-level ProTools Users, except for Finish the FAFSA access.
3. District-level Administrator - able to add and remove access and permissions for school-level Administrators and school-level ProTools Users, except for Finish the FAFSA access.

If you are a ProTools User and would like to request additional permissions, please contact the ProTools Administrator at your school or organization.  If you don't have an Administrator or don't know who they are, please submit a request in ProTools Help for assistance.

If you are interested in Administrator rights and how to request them, you can learn more in this article: View Accounts.

Eligible ProTools users directly employed by multiple schools may have access to more than one school at a time. For example, educators employed at the district office may have access to the schools within their district.

If you change schools or end employment, you must notify your District or School-Level ProTools Administrator. If you do not know your District or School-Level ProTools Administrator, please email cfnc@northcarolina.edu with a notice of your school change or end of employment. Access to ProTools should be terminated when changing schools or ending employment. If you change schools and need ProTools access at your new school, request access from your new District or School-Level ProTools Administrator, or Submit a Request on ProTools Help. 

CFNC.org has partnered with NCcareers.org, the experts on North Carolina careers and employment at the NC Department of Commerce, to provide access to a wide range of new career assessments. Data from career assessments completed on NCcareers.org after April 20, 2021, are available to view within ProTools Career Reports. Data from career assessments completed on CFNC.org vary in availability for educators depending on the date of completion. Please note that student's viewing of their own CFNC.org career assessments has always been available and the dates below are not related to their access.

ProCenter (Professional Center) is the previous CFNC reporting system for NC educators.  It will be available during much of the 2021-22 academic year while most data transition to ProTools.  The following tables provide more detail.

NCcareers.org Career Assessments

The table above applies to the following NCcareers.org assessments:

1. Career Cluster Match
2. Interest Finder
3. Reality Check
4. Skills Matcher
5. Work Values Sorter

CFNC.org Career Assessments

The table above applies to the following CFNC.org assessments:

1. Ability Profiler - no, it will not become available in ProTools at a later date.
2. Basic Skills Survey - yes, it will become available in ProTools at a later date.
3. Career Cluster Survey - yes, it will become available in ProTools at a later date.
4. Interest Profiler - yes, it will become available in ProTools at a later date.
5. Transferrable Work Skills - yes, it will become available in ProTools at a later date.
6. Work Values Sorter - yes, it will become available in ProTools at a later date.
7. The Career Key, Do What You Are, and Learning Styles Inventory - will soon be replaced with updated versions of similar assessments. Results of these future assessments will be available in ProTools at a later date.

In order for a student to display within your school's ProTools account, the student must have your school/organization selected as their primary connection within their CFNC.org account and have an accurate graduation year entered. To confirm or update their school connection and graduation year, students should log in to their CFNC account, click on the orange person icon in the top right of the page, and select My Profile.

Step 1

Step 2

In the first tab of My Profile, the student can make sure their Year of Graduation is correct.

Step 3

In the School Connections tab, the student can make sure that their 1) primary (current) school connection, and 2) other connections are correct. Students must select your school/organization as their primary connection for you to view them in ProTools. Secondary connections are currently not viewable within ProTools.

The NC State Education Assistant Authority (NCSEAA) is responsible for managing access to the Finish the FAFSA report.  Please submit a request in ProTools Help to request access (select Finish the FAFSA on the form, and it will go to NCSEAA).

As you are working with students and the Transcript Tracking report, you'll find that requested transcripts can have a status of Completed, Requested, or Failed.

1. Completed - A Completed status indicates the request has been processed successfully and is downloadable by the specified college.
2. Requested - A Requested status indicates that the request has been queued but not yet processed. If the request is for a final transcript, it will remain in the Requested status until grades are finalized by the student's school at the end of the year.
3. Failed - A Failed status indicates there was a problem processing the request. If the status is Failed, students should receive an email indicating the type of error.

Learn tips for helping with failed transcripts.

There are two general error types for transcript requests: 1) information mismatch and 2) data format. The student will receive an email explaining the error and the action they should take.  If they come to you with questions, here are some details to assist.