The Mastery College Prep Assessment now mirrors the redesigned ACT, giving students realistic practice in less time while boosting confidence and readiness. Discover how these updates set learners up for success.

We’re developing Co-Labs, our new interactive product roadmap experience – and we’re looking for engaged customers to join the pilot. If you’re excited to share meaningful feedback and influence what comes next, this is your chance to get early acces...

Last back-to-school season, we introduced a redesigned analytics experience in Mastery Connect, giving educators more intuitive dashboards, advanced filters, and the ability to save customized reports. That launch was just the beginning. Since then, ...

At Instructure, we know that time is the most valuable commodity in K12 schools. That’s why we’re putting the power of IgniteAI to work in Mastery Connect, helping educators efficiently gain actionable, accurate insights into their students’ learning...

We’re excited to unveil the enhanced item bank experience in Mastery Connect — built around your feedback to deliver a faster, smarter, and more intuitive experience. Whether you’re authoring new content or searching for just the right assessment ite...

We’re enhancing the scaling, scoring, and reporting model for Mastery Predictive Assessments to strengthen our alignment with the latest research-based practices and further lay the groundwork for even more powerful reporting capabilities in the futu...

This blog post is part of the Mastery Connect back to school series, where we highlight the feature enhancements and updates to prepare you to maximize your upcoming school year.  Also check out our Back to School Tips & Tricks: Teachers: Tips for a ...

Last week, we hosted a K-12 Assessment Product Discovery Session (CDS) in San Antonio, bringing together curriculum and assessment leaders from districts across the country. This in-person event provided a valuable opportunity for participants to eng...

At Instructure, we believe the best way to improve is by listening to the people who use our tools every day—you. That’s why on June 21st US customers will begin seeing a quick question pop up while using Canvas or Mastery asking for your feedback. I...

Students may have specific learning requirements for assessments that are essential for their success. To support this, we are offering the ability to enable tools and accommodations for individual students to provide a fair and inclusive assessment ...

Ideas, Customer Discovery Sessions, and Early Adopter groups are exciting, but our efforts go beyond that. Here’s how we’ve been further strengthening our partnership:

Ensure reliable and secure assessments by shuffling answer choices on Mastery assessments.

With over 60 Mississippi districts using the Mastery View Predictive Assessments, Mississippi educators need confidence in their accuracy. A new study confirms that the Predictive Assessments are strongly aligned with the Mississippi Academic Assessm...

Discover how incorporating validated items in the Predictive Assessments enhances accuracy, strengthens instructional insights, and ensures a balanced approach to assessment—without adding extra burden to students.

We're launching the Mastery Item Review Panel, where select assessment and standards experts can provide direct feedback on draft Mastery View Predictive Assessment items.

We’re thrilled to announce two new features designed to streamline your assessment workflows and save you valuable time: Assessment Student Preview and Bulk PDF Exports for District Assessments.

As we near the end of 2024 and look back upon the year… I’d like to share a deeper dive about our discovery process, how the R&D team creates new feature solutions.

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The Mastery View College Prep Assessment Reports, previously only available via ShareFile, can be accessed by teachers, school administrators, and district leaders directly from within Mastery Connect.

Discover three updates to help districts and teachers create their Mastery Trackers for the 2024 school year! 

A new report sharing predictive validity evidence for the Mastery View Predictive Assessments is now available. The report provides evidence from seven districts across four states for grade 3–8 students in math, reading, and science.

If you have accessed your Mastery Connect account since last week, you likely noticed a change in our default color palette. While this change has significant visual impact, we believe it will ultimately improve Mastery Connect by making it more acce...

Explore your Mastery connect data with new dashboards, visualizations, and features! 

Please read for important updates to our Mastery Connect teacher and student mobile apps.

Beginning on April 10th 2024, explore and provide feedback on over 200 items aligned to the ACT reporting categories. Access the new sample items for free for two-weeks!

Your students can now demonstrate their Mastery on any graded Canvas Assignment or graded discussion. Simply align your assignment, and score your student's work. 

A few weeks ago our team was able to visit districts in the Gulf Coast Education Initiative Consortium in Mississippi.  We were met with warmth and enthusiasm when over 40 representatives from various districts across the region joined us, bringing w...

As uncovered in our latest studies, grade 3–8 students who completed more assessments in Mastery Connect had significantly higher ELA and math performance on end-of-year assessments. 

Beginning today, Community members will only be able to comment on Product Blogs published in the last six months.

During the past few years, our Product teams have been on a continuous journey of innovation. We’ve compiled a captivating walk down memory lane to highlight the enhancements made to Mastery Connect from 2021 through 2023.