Parent and Student Access to Learning Progressions

As a Parent or Student, you have access to your/your Student's Learning progression as long as access has been given to your role. If you are an Admin who would like to learn more about setting up Competency based education, see Competency based education. Parents can access this from their Student's profile when they select the Student's name then select Learning Progression. Whereas, Students can access their Learning progression through My Day then Learning Progression.

From here, you will see two tiles, one that looks at any Transferable sub-skills and the other focuses on Content-area sub-skills. These tiles can be filtered by category and sub-skill. The Content-area sub-skills can also be filtered by school year and course.

Once you have set your filters, you can select a specific sub-skill to view the progress you/your student has made toward mastering the sub-skill. When a sub-skill is selected, a fly-out will appear which will outline any assignments that have been completed toward this sub-skill along with the assignment details, evaluation, and any comments added to the assignments. This will show you the progress made towards this sub-skill and how close you/your student is to mastering the sub-skill. On the fly-out, evaluations are grouped first by evaluations that count and then formative assignments. Formative assignments are not included in any computation methods set by the school and tend to be assignments that will assist teachers in evaluating their students to see if they need to change their lesson plans to make sure students are mastering the applicable skills.

Note: Schools can customize the names of these skill types to better fit the school's framework and lingo. Please check with your teacher if you see something other than Transferable and Content-area skills.

There are two types of Skills that are available for evaluation:

  • Transferable skills: These are skills that span a student's entire academic experience at a school. These skills are not tied to a specific course or subject area and instead look at things like collaboration, engagement, organization, etc. Transferable skills can be further categorized and broken down into sub-skills as well.

  • Content-area skills: In direct contrast, Content-area skills are tied to specific courses or class subjects. These are typically used to detail expected learning outcomes. Sub-skills can be created for these skills as well to further refine these standards.

Teachers have the ability to make Formative assignments. Formative assignments are not included in any Mastery calculations. Formative assignments are usually used to monitor student progress and show teachers which areas or skills a student is struggling with. This gives teachers an opportunity to tailor their future assignments and lesson plans to assist their students in mastering the applicable skills.

If an assignment is not marked as Formative, it is considered Summative. Summative assignments will be used to calculate student ratings and are typically high stakes assignments and will be used to evaluate students at the end of an instructional unit.

If you have any questions about Formative or Summative assignments, contact your teacher for more details about how these assignment types work in their classroom.