How do I use my Dashboard to manage benchmarks as a teacher?

As a teacher, you can manage  your benchmarks from the Dashboard in the Mastery Connect Home page. The Dashboard displays all available benchmarks, and allows you to generate and view test IDs, view delivery windows, and access the Performance Grader without opening your trackers.

Note: If an administrator (admin) has enabled secure benchmarking mode on a benchmark, you cannot access the Performance Grader and other details for the benchmark.

Open Benchmarks Dashboard

View Teacher Dashboard

In the Global Navigation menu, click the Home link [1]. By default, the Dashboard tab is selected [2]. In the Dashboard, click the Benchmarks tab [3].

View Tracker Benchmarks

View Benchmark Dashboard

The Benchmarks tab displays a list of benchmarks that were delivered to your trackers, in order of availability window. Benchmarks closing soonest display at the top.

You can view a benchmark title [1] and a tracker where it is located [2]. If a benchmark assessment is in multiple trackers, it is listed multiple times, once for each tracker.

Open Benchmark

View Benchmark

To open the benchmark details window, click the benchmark name link [1].

To open the benchmark page in the tracker, click the tracker name link [2].

View Benchmark Details

Access Benchmark Details

In the benchmark details window, you can view assessment information, reports, notes/dates, and privacy settings. You can also print bubble sheets.

Note: If an admin has enabled secure benchmarking mode on a benchmark, you cannot view all benchmark details.

View Benchmark Progress

View Benchmark Availability

In the Benchmarks tab, you can view the number of students in the tracker who have assessment scores [1].

You can also view the benchmark availability status [2], as well as the availability window dates [3].

View Student List

View Student List

To view a list of students in the tracker, click the section link.

View Student List

In the section window, view the list of students.

Open Assess Window

Open Assess Window

To open the Assess window and view assessment administration information, click the Assess button.

Open Assess Modal

The Assess window displays benchmark administration information, including the test ID, the expiration window, and the assessment tools and accommodations. Learn more about delivering a benchmark assessment to students.

To close the Assess Window, click the Close button [9].

Open Performance Grader

Open Performance Grader

To view student answers and scores, click the Performance Grader button.

Learn more about how to manage a document-based assessment in the Performance Grader or how to manage an item-based assessment.

Note: If an admin has enabled secure benchmarking mode on a benchmark, you cannot access the Performance Grader.

Grade with Rubric

Grade with Rubric

If the students have submitted the benchmark and it has rubric scoring items that require grading, the Needs Grading button displays. To open the Performance Grader and grade rubric scoring items, click the Needs Grading button.

Learn more about scoring rubric items using the Performance Grader.

Note: If an admin has enabled secure benchmarking mode on a benchmark, you cannot grade rubric items.