Gburns
Instructure
Instructure

One of the exciting new features released in Mastery Connect this year has been the all new assessment dashboard experience experience for teachers, school admins, and district admins!

Please click here to learn more and watch the video!

Audiences: All Audiences

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CherellePhelps2
Instructure
Instructure

One of the great things about Mastery Connect, and the Canvas + Mastery Connect integration, is the variety of different assessment types that are available. We’re excited to review a few of these, including how to create an assessment from a purchased item bank, create a document-based assessment, import a Canvas quiz, and align a Canvas Assignment to a Mastery Tracker! Please click here to watch the video!

Audiences: All Audiences

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TamraShort
Instructure
Instructure

This post provides an overview of the features and products that we shared during the October Mastery Connect Updates webinar, including our now digital Mastery View College Prep Assessments, along with links to resources where you can learn more.

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marpar
Instructure
Instructure

Meet the Quick Reassess feature, a streamlined tool that saves teachers time by allowing them to quickly create follow-up assessments from existing standards, helping students demonstrate their understanding with ease.

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Victoria98
Instructure
Instructure

Are you wanting to compare how your class/school/district did on multiple assessments? If so, you’ll love the new Assessment Compare feature in Mastery Connect!  Depending on one’s role, users can now choose as many assessments as you would like to compare, including comparing benchmarks to formative assessments, comparing the same standard, or comparing trackers across different assessments. Click here to watch the Video Blog!

Audiences: All Audiences.

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StellaHdez
Instructure
Instructure

We’re excited to focus this month’s blogpost on exploring some real-life use cases for how to best leverage our new assessment analytics updates to Mastery Connect, from a district leader, building leader, and instructional coach perspective! Click here to watch the Video Blog! Audiences: Admins & Instructional Coaches

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TamraShort
Instructure
Instructure

Check out our 2024 Back to School webinar recording and resources for Mastery Connect Admin! 

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stephenwatts1
Instructure
Instructure

We’re excited to focus this month’s blogpost on some great new updates to Mastery Connect, including a new and improved user experience and header, new analytics dashboards, new clone & realign features, and the ability to now clone from 3rd party item banks!

Don't forget to watch the Video Blog about this post as well!

Key Audiences: Admins & Teachers 

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TamraShort
Instructure
Instructure

Mastery Connect will be in Vegas at InstructureCon 24! Will you be joining us?

There’s so much great content scheduled for InstructureCon 24, and we are so excited to have some great Mastery sessions scheduled for this event! Here’s a snapshot of the Mastery session line-up:

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CherellePhelps2
Instructure
Instructure

The new Mastery View College Prep Assessment is a practice assessment that mirrors the content, time, and length of the ACT, but provides more diagnostic information with a faster turnaround than any other practice test. Educators and students receive rich, timely data that is predictive of student performance on the ACT and provides even more granular data points to pinpoint specific areas that require additional learning. Don't forget to watch the Video Blog about this post as well! Key Audiences: All Audiences

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CandicePedersen
Instructure
Instructure

Students experience Mastery Connect assessments in their own unique way! Whether utilizing just Mastery Connect, or the Canvas + Mastery Connect integration, it is important for teachers to understand what students see and experience while taking assessments. There are also a variety of ways that teachers can increase agency for students with their own individual learning when utilizing Mastery Connect in the classroom! Also don't forget to watch the Video Blog about this post as well! Key Audiences: Teachers

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noel_gomez
Instructure
Instructure

Want to take your Mastery Connect implementation to the next level? With the Mastery Leadership Series, your leadership team will have the knowledge and skills required to lead confidently and competently.

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stephenwatts1
Instructure
Instructure

We’re excited to focus this month’s blogpost on three exciting new live releases in Mastery Connect: the new Canvas Assignments to the Tracker feature, the new Assessment Analysis feature, and improvements to the item search feature!

Don't forget to watch the Video Blog about this post as well! Key Audiences: Admins & Teachers 

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Gburns
Instructure
Instructure

Getting ready for spring testing is a big part of the school year. Leveraging Mastery Connect can help provide teachers with a variety of tools to more easily target students for the support they need in preparation for this, and Mastery Connect can also simplify data collection for teachers through easy to access reporting features. Don't forget to watch the Video Blog about this post as well!

Key Audiences: Teachers and Instructional Support Staff 

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Victoria98
Instructure
Instructure

There are so many things to love and appreciate about Mastery Connect! Since it’s Valentine's Day, we wanted to share a few things we love about Mastery Connect, including tracker visuals, the benchmark compare feature, and inline item authoring! Also, don't forget to watch the Video Blog about this post as well!

Key Audiences: Teachers

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StellaHdez
Instructure
Instructure

There are many reports that provide lots of great data in Mastery Connect. However, be sure not to overlook our Custom Reports! Custom Reports allow users to view their data in different ways than the typical assessment reports provided in Mastery Connect. Check out this blogpost for all the awesomeness that you can generate in Custom Reports and don’t forget to watch the blog video too! 
Key Audiences: Administrators and Teachers

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stephenwatts1
Instructure
Instructure

There is a new update in Mastery Connect that we are really excited about, which is the ability to now import Canvas New Quizzes, in addition to Canvas Classic Quizzes, directly into Mastery Connect! We know our Instructure friends using the Canvas + Mastery Connect integration are really excited about this too, so we’ve got a few tips & tricks to make the process even easier for those of you using the Canvas + Mastery Connect integration! Watch the blog video here and read below for more information! Key Audiences: All Audiences!

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Gburns
Instructure
Instructure

One of the great benefits of using the Canvas + Mastery Connect integration is the way teachers can now leverage the best parts of both products, within one unique platform, to increase engagement opportunities for students, and progress-monitor to support student learning. Click to read more and view the blogpost video here to learn about how you can get the most out of your Learning & Assessment Management System! Intended Audience: Teachers

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kjgomez
Instructure Alumni
Instructure Alumni

Our team has been working to unify the support experience, and have been migrating our support teams onto one ticketing system. Our goal with the new Mastery Connect support experience is to preserve the current workflow you are already used to.

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Victoria98
Instructure
Instructure

One of the great benefits of Mastery Connect is the variety of different assessment types that can be used to support student learning! Depending on what you are assessing for, item based, rubric based (document upload), and raw scores can all be leveraged in different ways to support specific outcomes you’re interested in working on with your students. This blogpost will take a look at each, provide some use cases, and review the benefits of using these different types of assessments in Mastery Connect. Also don't forget to watch the Video Blog about this post as well!

*Key Audience: All Audiences!

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CandicePedersen
Instructure
Instructure

One of the Mastery Connect Back to School Updates we are most excited about is the new assessment creation experience, which makes creating assessments from a purchased item bank even easier to build. Watch the blog video here and read below for more information as we share some best practices for creating assessments from an item bank! Key Audiences: All Audiences!

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MelissaKafka
Instructure
Instructure

The Instructure Learning Services Team is excited to share news pertaining to the  Getting Started with Mastery Connect course housed in Mastery Connect instances’ Help Menus. 

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StellaHdez
Instructure
Instructure

There are several new Back to School updates in Mastery Connect that we are really excited about, but none more than the Canvas Classic Quiz import! Educators can now convert Canvas Classic Quizzes to Mastery assessments, and we’ve got a few tips & tricks to make the process even easier for those of you using the Canvas + Mastery Connect integration! Watch the blog video here and read below for more information!
Key Audiences: All Audiences!

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stephenwatts1
Instructure
Instructure

There are several new Back to School updates in Mastery Connect that we are really excited about! Educators can now convert Canvas Classic Quizzes to Mastery assessments, save time by locating assessments in a new tracker view more quickly, and effectively create assessments through a new assessment experience. Watch the blog video here and read below for more information! You can also access a public version of the Slide Deck here! *Key Audiences: All Audiences!

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CandicePedersen
Instructure
Instructure

Parents/guardians can easily access their student’s assessments through Mastery Connect or the Canvas + Mastery Connect integration, once the teacher has made the assessment available to them. Watch the blog video here and read below for more information! *Key Audiences: Teachers

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Victoria98
Instructure
Instructure

We can't believe it is almost the end of the school year!!! If you are looking to reuse your content from your Mastery + Canvas Course, this post will help to ensure that you have a smooth transition into the next school year. Let's take a look at some best practices that will set up your content in your course to be ready to copy. Watch the blog video here and read below for more information!

*Key Audience: Teachers

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emily_allen
Community Team
Community Team

Back in January 2022, Community team member Tami B wrote a blog post introducing the Mastery Connect Great Guides Overhaul. And today, I’m excited to share that we recently put the finishing touches on that project.

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stephenwatts1
Instructure
Instructure

The Elementary Dashboard provides a visual and organizational experience that supports young learners with a specific layout and subject-specific course organization. With Mastery Connect’s Tracker linked specifically to each subject course, and using icons to make access even easier, it allows students to have more visibility and ownership of their learning, and teachers easier access the Tracker to create standards-driven assessments and teaching.

Intended Audience: Teachers

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CandicePedersen
Instructure
Instructure

Item Authoring is the process of creating test items in Mastery Connect using an item bank. Item Authoring can help create assessments that present more authentic context, reduce students’ random guessing, improve content coverage, and improve test-taker motivation with greater engagement. Watch the blog video here and read below for more information!  *Key Audiences: District Administrators, Instructional Coaches, those with the District Benchmark Author permission.

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Gburns
Instructure
Instructure

The Mastery Connect Student experience allows teachers to truly leverage the full capability of Mastery Connect. We must involve our students in the data process. Within Mastery Connect, students have access to monitor their own progress towards mastery. Providing students the opportunity to see their growth generates student agency, while also giving them specific areas to focus on. Watch the blog video here and read below for more information! 

*Key Audiences: Teachers, Instructional Coaches, and Teacher Leaders

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