Allow students to transfer progress from "student" accounts to personal accounts

Hi Adam,

Thanks for the feedback! I've forwarded this request to the team for consideration as we continue to improve our platform.

For the time being, one of the easiest existing solutions is to simply allow students to use their personal accounts in the teacher's class. They can do so by joining with the class code, instead of having the teacher create a new account for them.

If students join the class with an existing account, any mastery progress that they have made in a course will be retained. For example, if a student has reached 50% mastery in Algebra I, and the teacher assigns the Algebra I Mastery Goal, the student will start out at 50%.

However, if the teacher assigns a specific piece of content (video, practice exercise, quiz, or tests) that the student has already completed, the student will need to redo the assigned content in order for the assignment to be marked as completed. By doing this, teachers can still assign work and track progress, but students can keep their earned badges and mastery progress.

I hope this helps! Please let me know if you have any additional questions!

Evan, I have the opposite problem. My children used a school account for years and have now switched to a personal child account. They are very discouraged tI have to start again at zero. Is there a way that their progress can be transferred from their student account to a new personal child account?

Hi Michelle,

Unfortunately there is not a way to transfer progress from one account to another. Is there a particular reason why they are wanting to switch over to a new account? Even if they're not in school anymore, they should be able to continue using their school account. There's not a way for teachers to delete accounts, so their account and mastery progress will be preserved even if their teacher removes them from old classes.

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