Benefits for Students
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* Students may use the Platform either as VISITORS, or join the Community within the Platform as MEMBERS.
Why join the Community?
The One Zoo Tree Platform is the most comprehensive career preparation tool available, currently focusing on careers working with animals. The platform aims to assist the students in choosing a career as well as in planning and preparing for it.
Students can choose from over 500 careers, network with other students, communicate directly with expert role players, access a calendar of events, a job board, and a list of bursaries, as well as learn about all the animals they will work with.
To ensure maximum exposure to and knowledge retention of careers and animal facts, the platform incorporates various role players into the community, including schools.
DEFINITION:
Visitors (children still in school as well as students currently or planning to study further through online courses, colleges, or universities) can use the basic career information for FREE, without registering as a member of the community.
Students can:
- join the community and use the free tools to learn about the different animal-related careers
- Make friends with other students around the world.
- Interact with tertiary institutions as well as animal organisations.
What are the Benefits for STUDENTS?
VISITORS
MEMBERS
- Access to all Careers
- Access to additional Career info
- Access to Career Paths
- Access to Links to Tertiary Institutions
- Access to short list on how to prepare
- Access to Job Board
- Access to all Careers
- Access to additional Career info
- Access to Career Paths
- Access to short List on how to Perpare
- Ability to create own Profile with links on your own dashboard
- Join Groups based on the Career you choose, and animals you want to work with
- Make Friends and Chat with others from around the world
- Your own direct access to thousands of Short Courses
- Join Groups by tertiary institutions, chat with them to help prepare
- Join Groups by animal organizations and chat to them about the animals they work with
- Access to an event schedule by all of the participating institutions and organizations
- Gain access to volunteer opportunities and log your experiences for future use
- Win rewards, points and achievements while you participate on the Platform
Benefits as a MEMBER
PERSONAL PROFILE
Register and create your own personalised Profile.
When you register as a member, you need to create your own Profile.
What does your Profile offer you?
- Personalise your profile with an avatar and background image.
- Show or hide your information
- Post daily updates on what you are doing.
- See your own daily activities within the Community, including steps completed towards rewards.
- Network with your new friends.
- Message otherr members directly.
IMPORTANT!
The community is protected by various levels of security.
Students need to supply only the basic information when registering:
- Choice of choosing a username instead of real names
- Avatars can be used instead of real photos.
- Profiles can be made public or private.
- A physical address is NOT required, only the country with the OPTION of including city/town.
- Rules prohibit students from supplying unnecessary personal information.
Don’t want to add or share a real photo as an avatar?
Here is a link to an online app where you can easily create your own cartoon Avatar. When you are done, save it to your PC, and then upload it on OZT to your new Profile.
SHORT COURSES
Complete free Short Courses
As a member, you have full access to all of our short courses. Download them, print them, or share them as you want.
Short courses help students gain the needed knowledge to bridge the gap between high school and further studies or to start an animal related career or business. They also teach you which career skills are required, as well as facts about the animals you may work with.
There are a lot of special short courses being added where you may learn things such as surviving in the wilderness or the basic controls of flying a helicopter.
The current breakdown of Courses:
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Access or contribute to Resources
Besides the hundreds of free short courses, OZT offers you access to additional career resources to help choose and prepare for a career.
These resources include:
500+ Career Plans
Free examples of a career path plan for each career profile, plus a detailed study guide
Career Events
A calendar of events with links to animal-related events, such as expos, fairs, camps and volunteering opportunities
Study Bursaries
A list of bursaries to assist children in accessing funds in order to complete important tertiary studies
Education Directory
A directory cf courses to assist children in deciding on what and where to study further after high school
Job Board
An updated Job Board containing entry level animal-related jobs (full or part time, volunteering, mentorship, apprenticeship and more)!
REWARDS
Earn rewards
Members can earn various kinds of rewards by joining and interacting within the Community. Rewards are divided into Ranks, Points, Badges.
For a full list, have a look at the Reward System.
Rules and User Policy
The One Zoo Tree Platform makes use of community software to allow members to create their own profiles, join Groups and communicate with each other directly via an onboard messaging system.Â
As international law places restrictions on the age of users without adult consent, the platform has made the MEMBERSHIP part available for students aged 14 and up.Â
Parents take FULL responsibility for supervising members 13 and younger. All students will be required to read and agree to a strict USER POLICY.
We have a very strict USER POLICY and set of operating RULES. These documents, together with operational GUIDES can be found in the MAIN MENU, as well as within the FOOTER towards the bottom of all pages.Â
If you want to join OZT as a member, you are forced by law to read through the USER POLICY, and agree to it’s terms when registering. Any violation of the USER POLICY and RULES will lead to immediate account termination. This will never be negotiable, as we value the safety of our users more than the platform itself!
A quick scan through the User Guide within the Member Portal will help you know how to use the different elements of the platform.
Steps to Join
If you want to join the platform as a School, please keep the following steps in mind:
- When you Register, you will be requested to create a Profile Page. All users need to have a Profile to allow interaction on the Platform.
- Your Profile needs to be in your own name, or a user name can be used. For example, the creator of OZT is registered as BugBoss
Register as a Member to JOIN us!
Frequently Asked Questions
All membership levels tacitly or automatically renew after 12 months. Membership can be terminated or closed by following the prompts under the MANAGE tab in your profile.Â
We have a strict security policy, which includes locking accounts when we detect a possible breach attempt. Multiple wrong login attempts will cause an account lock, so if you have forgotten your password, rather ask for a new one under the LOGIN page.
Don’t try to log in with the wrong USERNAME, as it will lead to a 2 day lockout of your IP address.
If you do struggle and don’t know what to do, just send us a message through the normal contact form at the bottom of this page.
