Mastery question

Mastery is taking over from Missions, and I have a guess as to why the percents are different (happening to me, too).  At the bottom of the learner view mastery screen, there is now a course challenge.  I think that is "counting" for the Mastery view but not the old Mission view.  I plan to tell students to only look at Mastery info, not Missions.

My suggestion for monitoring is to assign mastery.  You can see Assign mastery goal below on the first

screenshot.  Then you can use the Progress tab to easily see progress towards that goal (second screenshot).  If you don't expect 100% mastery (like me since some of the topics are not part of our standards), just let the students know what the goal is but still go ahead and assign to be able to see the progress.  On the progress page, you can click the purple rectangles for detailed info.

Hope this helps!  I'm really excited about the Mastery part this year!

That is very helpful feedback!  Thank you!

It's good to know that it sounds like KA is phasing out Missions, because that's been the area where we've been focusing our coaching with student use of KA, so we'll need to adjust accordingly and focus on the Explore (Mastery) tab instead.

The "Assign Mastery Goal" link will certainly be helpful, but I do have a followup question.  Is it possible to assign mastery for a specific unit since mastery points are broken down by units?  This would make goals more incremental and perhaps help focus my students' efforts to specific units at certain intervals.  I'm aware that I can assign quizzes and tests, but just curious if the mastery piece can be broken down at all below the course level.

Thanks again.

For now, you can only assign mastery of a subject.  But in the future, you will be able to assign unit mastery.  I don't know what "future" means, but it is coming.  This was shared with the Khan Academy Ambassadors (I am one).  I'll be happy for that because I'll be able to avoid things that aren't in our standards.

Missions will still be around this school year FYI.  

I just want to add to Amy's response.....It does look like you can click on the unit title to see a "Unit Mastery" report. The class report for at the top of the Unit Report shows the mastery % for that unit. You can also see the number of points for that unit, and the % unit master for each student. Scrolling down from the Class Report, you can see the class master %'s for each skill in the unit. You can open each skill to see the students at each level. Using this, I think you should be able to set "verbal" mastery goals for the unit.