Mastery Paths

[rebecca_esplin]

I have an elementary teacher asking me to help her set up a mastery path today. I realized that the new elementary feature has remove the "module" link in course navigation. It made me wonder how mastery paths will work for our little learners.

[jsailor]

Hi, @rebecca_esplin,

The module link will be available in Canvas for Elementary so teachers will be able to create MasteryPaths in their courses as they usually would. The big change to call out here is that students will not see the individual index pages for the various types of content (assignments, quizzes, discussions, etc) so they will need to access them through the modules or from their schedule. This will be done automatically without the teacher having to drag and hide these various index pages as they have to do today. 

[cmgardner]

I would love to see a modified Mastery Path experience at the elementary level that would allow teachers to easily push differentiate/personalized learning experience within Canvas to specific students/groups of students. I know many of our elementary teachers currently get really confused with the groups feature. They get this confused with the ability to put students in sections and then be able to assign specific things to those sections. I think there is more of a need at the elementary level to be able to fluidly move students in and out of sections/groups to be able to provide that differentiated content. Setting up sections is easy the first time, but to be able to move students in and out is not so easy. I mentioned this before, but a huge buy in for us with our elementary teachers is being able to use Canvas to clone themselves during a station rotation and having the ability to curate differentiated digital content for groups of students would be amazing!