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Sara Shaffer - KCS Canvas Lead Team
Mastery Paths
Mastery Paths is currently in beta testing but we have turned it on for our district and
teachers are welcome to test it out. To turn on this feature go into Course Settings/Feature Options/Mastery Paths - toggle on.
How to Use Mastery Paths in Course Modules
The Canvas MasteryPaths feature allows you to customize learning experiences to students based on student performance. With MasteryPaths, you identify activities for each student’s learning path and differentiate assignments for required learning, optional learning, or choosing their own content and assignments within a specific path, which helps them achieve course mastery.
MasteryPaths is based on differentiated assignments, which allows assignments to be assigned to different users and sections. With MasteryPaths, assignments are differentiated to individual students automatically and no additional work is required aside from grading student assignments as usual. After the initial assignment has been graded (either manually or automatically), the student’s score designates which conditional items(s) will be assigned as a learning path.
If you use weighted grading in your course, additional course work may affect student's total grades. However, grade calculations are based on the assignments assigned and completed by the student; students are not penalized for any assignments that are not assigned to them. If you are concerned about grade variances with point values, you may want to review the conditional assignments assigned to each MasteryPath and try to balance out grading totals in each path. Additionally you could evaluate student progress and add individual students to assignments as necessary that they can complete to improve their grade.
When creating MasteryPaths, all assignments and pages should be created and added as conditional items before publishing the course to students.
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Ms. Shaffer
Email: sshaffer@k12k.com
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