If your institution uses Canvas LMS, you can link a Mastery Tracker to a Canvas course. Once this connection is made you can access your Mastery Tracker in your Canvas course, which includes mastery data, assessments built with third-party item banks, and tools to support competency-based learning. Existing Mastery Trackers may already contain Mastery Connect assessments.
You can also create an assignment or graded discussion in Canvas associated with a Mastery Connect standard, which will automatically populate the assignment or graded discussion into your Canvas-linked Mastery Tracker.
Notes:
- If a Mastery standard-aligned Canvas assignment is deleted in Canvas, it will automatically delete the linked assessment from the Mastery Tracker. Restoring the assignment in Canvas will create an entirely new Mastery Connect raw score assessment.
- If you edit a Mastery standard-aligned Canvas assignment and change the Mastery standard, the Mastery assessment will automatically be removed from the old standard and repopulate with scores in the new standard within the Mastery tracker.
- Removing a student assignment score in Canvas will also delete the student score from the Mastery tracker. Changing a Canvas assignment score will also change the Mastery tracker score to reflect it.
- Canvas New Quizzes are not eligible for direct alignment to a Mastery standard. If your Canvas assignment contains a quiz, you must use Classic Quizzes for the assignment to populate in Mastery Connect.
Open Canvas Course
Log in to your Canvas account.
To log into your Mastery Connect account from Canvas, in the Global Navigation menu, click the Mastery link [1].
To enter your course, in the Global Navigation menu, click the Courses link [2]. Then, click the course name link [3].
Notes:
- If the course is not listed, select the All Courses link [4], then click the title of your course.
- To import a Canvas assignment into a Mastery tracker, you must first link a Mastery Tracker to your course.
Open Assignments
In Course Navigation, click the Assignments link.
Add Assignment
Click the Add Assignment button.
Canvas courses that are linked to a Mastery Tracker include Mastery Standard alignment settings.
Edit Assignment Details
Type the assignment title in the Assignment Name field [1]. If you created your assignment as an assignment shell, this field will be populated for you, but you can change it if necessary.
Use the Rich Content Editor to add images, text, links, equations, or insert media [2].
Enter the points for your assignment in the Points field [3].
Notes:
- The points possible for the assignment that are set during the Canvas assignment creation are inherited by Mastery Connect.
- All graded Canvas assignment types that display in Canvas Gradebook as assignments (including graded discussions, LTI assignments, etc.) are eligible to be aligned with a Mastery standard.
- Learn more about creating Canvas assignments and editing additional assignment settings.
Select Grading Type
In the Display Grade as drop-down menu, select the method you want to use for grading. You can grade your assignment by percentage, complete/incomplete, points, letter grade, or GPA scale.
Note: A Not Graded option is also available. However, if you set your grading type as Not Graded, your assignment will not populate in Mastery Connect.
Edit Mastery Standard Alignment
If your Canvas course is linked to a Mastery Tracker, you will see the Mastery Standard Alignment settings menu in your assignment settings.
To align your Canvas assignment to a Mastery standard, click the Select Standard drop-down menu [1] and select a single standard [2].
Note: Multiple standard alignments are not supported for Canvas assignments at this time.
Save Assignment
If you want to notify users about any future assignment changes, click the Notify users that this content has changed checkbox [1]. Click the Save button [2].
To publish your Canvas assignment, click the Save & Publish button [3].
Notes:
- If your assignment has not yet been published, the assignment displays the Save & Publish button. The Save button creates a draft of your assignment so you can publish it later.
- If you click the Notify users that this content has changed checkbox, only the students assigned to the assignment are notified of changes. Additionally, only students who have the Content Change notification setting enabled are notified of content changes.
View Assignment in Mastery Tracker Students Tab
In your Course Navigation, click the Mastery Tracker link [1]. The default view of the Mastery Tracker is the Students tab [2].
Click the standard heading for the standard you aligned your Canvas assessment to [3].
Note: The cut scores & mastery levels of the assessment are inherited from the Tracker's default or set levels.
When your assignment is saved in Canvas, it displays in your linked Mastery Tracker as a raw score assessment [1].
When you grade the assignment in Canvas, the scores are automatically imported into your Mastery Tracker assessment [2].
To view your assignment in the Canvas Assignments page, click the Assignment tag at the top of the assessment column [3].
To view more details and options for your Canvas assignment within your Mastery Tracker, click the Tracker Assessments tab [4].
View Assignment in Mastery Tracker Assessments Tab
In the Type column of the Tracker Assessments tab, the imported Canvas assignment displays as an Assignment [1].
The Completed column displays the number of students that have been graded out of all students in the course [2].
To open a window that displays student scores, click the Reporting icon [3].
To open Canvas Speedgrader for the assignment, click the Grade icon [4].
To return to the Tracker Students tab, click the Tracker View button [5].
To open the More Options menu, click the More icon [6].
To open the assignment in the Canvas Assignments page, click the Canvas Assignment link [7]. To remove the assessment from the tracker, click the Remove Assessment link [8].
Note: Removing the assessment from the tracker will remove all scores from the Mastery Tracker.
