Mastery Connect Release Notes (2025-06-30)

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Release notes outline upcoming customer-impacting changes that are expected to be displayed in production environments. Please note that features considered for future development are not included in the notes.

Unless otherwise stated, all features in this release are available in the Production environment as of 2025-06-30.

Table of Contents

• New Features
• Standards
• District Standards Management
• Items
• Item Bank Assessment Creation Flow
• Trackers
• AI Quick Re-Assess Item Generation
• AI Quiz Conversion Standard Alignment
• Updated Features
• Items
• Item Management Experience
• Mastery Levels
• 5 Tier Scale Support
• Student Portal and Student Assessment Experience
• Student Portal and Student Assessment Experience in Spanish
• Assessments
• District Assessments Results Updates
• Analytics
• Avg Percent Score Metric
• Other Updates
• End of Life Features
• Teacher & Administrator Inbox
• Resource Pins and Playlists
• Student Class Activity

New Features

Standards

District Standards Management

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Affected User Roles	All Educator Roles
Affects User Interface	Yes
Affected Areas	Curriculum Maps, Trackers

Summary

A Standards page is available, which allows District Administrators to assign the specific cores and curriculum maps available to teachers. When a curriculum map is added to a specific class, teachers are required to use that map as the source for class creation.  

Note(s):

• Subjects can have more than one core assigned. If more than one is selected, then teachers can choose between the options selected during tracker creation.
• Subjects can have no cores assigned. If there are no cores assigned, teachers can choose from any classes during tracker creation.
• If a curriculum map is assigned to a class, if a teacher chooses that class when creating a tracker, then the curriculum map will automatically be assigned to that tracker.

Change Benefit

This feature enables District Administrators to restrict the cores available to their teachers, ensuring the use of district-designated standards. 

Feature Workflow

Admin: Standards

As a District Administrator, click the Admin drop-down menu [1], then click the Standards link [2].

Standards: Add Core

For each subject, click the Add Core button.

Select Core

To add a core to a subject, click the Core dropdown menu and select a core. 

Note(s):

• Users can add more cores to each subject by adding an additional core after saving.
• Optionally, select a curriculum map for specific classes.

Items

Item Bank Assessment Creation Flow

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Affected User Roles	All Educator Roles
Affects User Interface	Yes
Affected Areas	Item Bank

Summary

In the Item Bank experience, educators can create assessments directly from a selection of items if all items are from the same class.

Change Benefit

This update provides a direct and efficient workflow, allowing educators to create assessments directly from the Items Index page.

Feature Workflow

Items: Filters

On the Items page, click the Filter button [1]. Then filter to a specific Subject [1], Core [2], and Class [3].

Items: Create Assessment

Select 1 or more items from the available items [1]. Then click the Create Assessment button [2].

Create Assessment

Complete the assessment creation details and click the Next button. 

Trackers

AI Quick Re-Assess Item Generation

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Affected User Roles	All Educator Roles
Affects User Interface	Yes
Affected Areas	Trackers, Assessment Creation

Summary

AI-powered question generation is available using content from the Mastery Item Bank and Mastery Item Bank Supplemental. 

Note: To enable this feature, please contact the institution’s Customer Success Manager.

Change Benefit

This update allows for the rapid creation of new, standards-specific assessment items within the Quick Reassess experience. This saves teachers time and effort in authoring item content while improving the quality and variety of assessments. These improvements, in turn, enable more effective and personalized evaluation of student learning. 

Feature Workflow

AI Regenerate

In the Quick Reassess modal, click the AI Regenerate button on any question to generate a new item based on the standard alignment of the original question. When item generation is complete, a new item will display in the place of the previous item with an AI indicator on the tile.

Preview Item

Click on the question to preview the item.

Assessment Builder

Once selected, the AI generated item is added as a draft item in the assessment builder where additional edits can be made before publishing.

AI Quiz Conversion Standard Alignment

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Affected User Roles	All Educator Roles
Affects User Interface	Yes
Affected Areas	Trackers, Assessment Creation

Summary

During the conversion of Canvas quizzes to Mastery assessments using the quiz conversion tool, the AI Alignment tool recommends relevant standards for alignment.

Note: To enable this feature, please contact the institution’s Customer Success Manager. 

Change Benefit

This update saves educators time by providing AI-suggested standard alignments for Canvas quiz items, streamlining the process of converting them to Mastery Assessments. This feature ensures assessments are consistently aligned with relevant educational standards.

Feature Workflow

Canvas Content Tool Button

When a Canvas course is linked to a tracker, a Canvas button. This button initiates the quiz conversions.

Navigate to Mastery Tracker, locate and click the Canvas Content tool button. 

See Available Quizzes

Click the See Available Quizzes button. Mastery Connect will check for valid New Quizzes or Classic Quizzes.

Convert as New

A list of New Quizzes and Classic Quizzes will appear in a modal. Select the quizzes you wish to convert and click the Convert as New button.

Draft Assessment: Standard

Once the conversion process completes, converted assessments are available in the new tracker assessment list as draft assessments. Open the draft assessment and review the suggested alignments in the Standard dropdown menu.

Updated Features

Items

Item Management Experience

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Affected User Roles	District Administrator, District Admin Reports, Benchmark Author, Benchmark Facilitator
Affects User Interface	No
Affected Areas	Item Banks

Summary

The Items Index experience is updated to include a single, comprehensive view of all items across all Item Banks. Enhanced filtering options are available allowing educators to locate specific items by criteria such as Item Bank, Subject, Class, and more. Additionally, the Item Bank table view can be customized to display preferred columns and column ordering, which can display more item metadata than previously available.   

Change Benefit

This item bank experience provides educators with a more intuitive and efficient interface for searching, filtering, and managing items and passages.

Workflow

Item Banks

The Items page displays all items across all Item Banks.

Items: Filter Options

To view filters, click the Filter button. The following filters are available:

• Item Bank
• Subject
• Core
• Class
• Standard
• Item Type
• Passages
• Difficulty
• DOK
• Blooms
• Language
• My Usage
• Reserved
• Other Features

Configure Table Options

To configure the Item Bank table view, click the Configure Table button. Then adjust the table view by reordering columns or toggling them on and off.

Mastery Levels

5 Tier Scale Support

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Affected User Roles	All
Affects User Interface	Yes
Affected Areas	All

Summary

Districts and Schools are able to elect to use a 5 Tier Scale for their Mastery Levels. When this option is enabled, trackers, assessments, and reports can calculate and display mastery data in up to five levels.

Note(s):

• Reach out to your institution’s Customer Success Manager to enable the 5 Tier Scale.
• Any existing content, including existing assessments and result data, will remain in their original scale. Assessment content can be cloned to the new scale. 
• Educators can download the results for up to 5000 rows. 

Change Benefit

This feature provides districts and schools with greater customization options, enabling them to more closely align their Mastery-based assessment programs with their state assessments.

Student Portal and Student Assessment Experience

Student Portal and Student Assessment Experience in Spanish

Affected User Roles	District Administrator, District Admin Reports, Benchmark Author, Benchmark Facilitator
Affects User Interface	No
Affected Areas	Item Banks

Summary

The Student Portal and Student Assessment Experience are available in Spanish. This translation includes user interface elements such as interactions, buttons, and alerts.

Note(s):

• For the translation to be active, the student’s web browser must have Spanish designated as its primary language.
• This update applies to user interface elements only; created content, such as standard details, assessment questions, and class names, are not translated as part of this feature.

Change Benefit

This update improves usability and navigation for students whose primary language is Spanish, providing a more accessible experience within the Student Portal and Student Assessment Experience.

Assessments

District Assessments Results Updates

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Affected User Roles	District Administrator, District Admin Reports, Benchmark Author, Benchmark Facilitator
Affects User Interface	No
Affected Areas	Item Banks

Summary

The District Assessment Results CSV export is updated to include the name of the district, and the date & time the students submitted the displayed results. 

Change Benefit

This update allows administrators to view student submission timestamps and enables network administrators to identify the associated district directly from the export file.

Analytics

Avg Percent Score Metric

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Affected User Roles	All Educator Roles
Affects User Interface	Yes
Affected Areas	Analytics Dashboard

Summary

The Average Percent Correct, which previously displayed a value representing the average number of questions correct, is replaced by the Avg Percent Score, which displays the mean result by the score value of the questions.

Change Benefit

This update provides educators with a clearer and more intuitive metric in their assessment analytics. 

Other Updates

End of Life Features

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Teacher & Administrator Inbox

Summary

The ability for educators to message each other directly within Mastery Connect is removed on July 1, 2025. Due to low usage and the availability of more robust communication options in district tools and Learning Management Systems such as Canvas, this feature is being phased out.

Resource Pins and Playlists

Summary

Resource Pins and Playlists removed on July 1, 2025. Resource Pins allowed educators to align non-assessment learning artifacts to standards, while Playlists enabled grouping and sharing of those resources. These features are being removed due to low usage and limited alignment with assessment-focused workflows.

Student Class Activity

Summary

The Student Activity page, which displayed assessments by most recent changes for each class, removed on July 1, 2025. This change is part of an effort to streamline the student experience, as the same information and actions are available through other pages, including the Student Home Page, Student Class Assessments page, and Student Progress page.