Mastery Challenges based on links I send students to practice skills

I teach algebra, sometimes I would like to recommend activities from pre-algebra or algebra basics. Will these skills show up in my students Algebra Mastery Challenge?

And I have a one student who never sees mastery challenges, I have logged in on his account and I cannot find them anywhere.  Help, he really wants to check those skills off as mastered and move on

Hello Mr. Eaton! My name is Lisa Krueger and I am a Khan Academy Ambassador teaching in Chicago. I am sorry to hear you are having some trouble with recommendations & Mastery challenges.

This is an explanation from the KA Educator Reference Materials - As a coach, you can recommend a skill from any mission to a student or group. Once they practice the skill, it will be prioritized in mastery challenges for that mission. Note: You cannot make coach recommendations for videos, only for skills. To find out how to make a recommendation, view recommendations, and delete recommendations, check out this how-to article. 

So in a nutshell the skills you recommend with show up in their list of skills to practice and then in the mastery challenges. Neither you nor your students are doing anything wrong - skills are presented to each student in different order based on their ability to complete the lessons.

While you are welcome to assign any skills you feel your students need at the moment missions can not be combined, but the KA developers are working on a way to customize missions. Hopefully this helps. Thank you for posting.

Hello Lisa! If your student is on their Learning Home page they should see the image below. As you can see the Mastery Challenge is the first item on the right side. Can you send a screen shot of what your student's Learning Home page looks like. Hopefully together we can figure this out. Thank you for posting.