The school year is kicking off—and as an admin, a little prep now can save a lot of hassle later. We’ve pulled together a few quick but powerful setup tips to help things run smoothly in Mastery Connect from day one.

From restricting tracker creation (until rosters are ready) to confirming your mastery scales and setting a go-to support contact, this guide hits all the key admin moves. ✅

The new school year is here (ready or not!)—but don’t worry, we’ve got your back. Whether you’re copying over courses, managing assessments, or figuring out those mysterious “remote scores,” a few simple setup steps can make a big difference in getting your year off to a smooth start.

New year, new students, fresh start! 🎉 Before things get busy, take a few minutes to get your Mastery Connect setup ready to go. These quick tips will help make sure your data is clean, your rosters are accurate, and your trackers are set up the right way from day one.

Need to reteach or reassess a standard quickly? Quick Reassess in Mastery Connect uses AI to help educators generate high-quality, standards-aligned follow-up assessments in just a few clicks — reducing time and effort while keeping learning on track.

Whether you're a small district or a large one, ensuring every classroom stays aligned with district-approved standards can be a challenge. Mastery Connect offers powerful tools to help administrators define, distribute, and manage standards-aligned instruction across schools and classrooms.

Manually aligning quiz items to standards can be time-consuming — but now, Mastery Connect can help. A new AI-powered feature automatically suggests standards alignments when converting Canvas Quizzes to Mastery Assessments, saving educators time while maintaining accuracy and control.

Mastery Connect now offers a more inclusive experience for Spanish-speaking students and families. By making the platform available in Spanish, educators can support greater understanding, connection, and engagement at home and in the classroom.

Educators need clear, timely data to guide instruction and support student growth. The latest updates in Mastery Connect bring actionable insights front and center — for both teachers and administrators.

Creating, organizing, and reusing assessment content just got easier. With new updates to Mastery Connect, educators can now manage assessment items more efficiently — saving time and improving instructional decisions with better-aligned content.

Discover how the Mastery Certified Educator program helps educators maximize the potential of Mastery Connect. Learn about core courses, electives, and benefits to enhance student success in the classroom.

Every student deserves the right support to succeed. Mastery Connect now makes it easier to provide individualized assessment tools—like line readers, highlighters, and calculators—so students can demonstrate what they know in a way that works for them.

Keep assessments fair and focused on learning. The new “Shuffle Answers” feature in Mastery Connect helps reduce cheating by randomizing answer choices with a single click—no extra setup needed.

Find common questions for the retirement of the Mastery Connect Inbox, Resource Pins, Student Playlists & Class Activity.

The usage of purchased Strategic hours can greatly enhance your buy-in, rollout, and usage of Mastery Connect. These hours are designed to provide you with guidance and support along the path of implementing Mastery Connect at the school or district level. Some of those hours are reserved for a series of workshops during your technical implementation and others have a little more flexibility to provide the needed support for your specific district and/or school needs. Please click here to learn more and watch the video!

Audiences: Administrators, District Leaders.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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 

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:

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

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

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.

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 

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 

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

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