Mastery Tracking

Click the Mastery tab in the dashboard to open the tracking system. The layout has two main areas: a sidebar on the left with your units, objectives, mastery legend, and reports - and a main area on the right showing the class overview grid.

• 1 Unit & objective list - Your curriculum organized into collapsible units with objectives nested inside. Click an objective to see its detail view. The active objective is highlighted.
• 2 Mastery scale legend - The default levels are Beginning, Progressing, Mastered, and Exceeding - but you can rename, add, or remove levels to match your school's rubric. Click "Edit mastery scale" to customize.
• 3 Class overview grid - Students as rows, objectives as columns. Each cell shows a colored mastery indicator or a "No evidence" badge. This is your at-a-glance view of the entire class.
• 4 Clickable cells - Click any cell to open the quick log popover and update a student's mastery level with evidence. No need to navigate away from the overview.

Mastery tracking is organized into two levels: units contain objectives. A unit represents a chunk of your curriculum (a unit, a marking period, a project). Objectives are the specific skills or standards you're tracking within that unit.

Click "New unit" in the toolbar to create a unit, then "New objective" to add objectives inside it.

• 1 Unit selector - Choose which unit this objective belongs to. You can move objectives between units later if your curriculum changes.
• 2 Create Objective - Saves the objective and adds it to the unit. It immediately appears as a new column in the overview grid.

Every school and district talks about mastery differently. PrepPanel's mastery scale is fully customizable - you can rename levels, change colors, add new levels, or remove ones you don't need. Click "Edit mastery scale" in the sidebar legend to open the editor.

• 1 Level rows - Each row has a color picker and a text field for the level name. Edit the name to match your school's language (e.g., "Developing" instead of "Beginning"). Click the color swatch to change the indicator color. Click the X to delete a level.
• 2 Add Level - Need more than four levels? Click to add a new row. Some schools use a 5- or 6-point scale, and PrepPanel supports that.
• 3 Section checkboxes - Choose which sections use this mastery scale. This means you can use different scales for different classes if needed - for example, one scale for your honors sections and another for your general sections.
• 4 Save Scale - Applies your changes. Existing evidence and levels are preserved - the labels and colors update everywhere automatically.

The fastest way to record mastery data is directly from the overview grid. Click any cell to open the quick log popover - a compact form where you can set the mastery level and add an evidence note without leaving the overview.

• 1 Student & objective - The popover shows who you're logging for and which objective. The current mastery level is displayed so you can see where the student stands before making a change.
• 2 Level dropdown - Select the new mastery level. The dropdown shows all levels from your customized scale, plus "Not set" to clear the level.
• 3 Evidence note - Write a brief note about what you observed. This builds an evidence trail over time, so you can see exactly how a student progressed from Beginning to Mastered.

For a deeper view, click an objective name in the sidebar (or a column header in the overview grid). This opens the objective detail view with insights, a student list, and the full evidence history.

At the top, three metric cards and a class snapshot give you an instant read on how the class is doing on this specific objective.

• 1 Objective header - Shows the objective title, which unit it belongs to, the student count, and the section. Use the breadcrumb above to navigate back to the overview.
• 2 Insight metrics - Three quick numbers: what percentage of students have at least one evidence entry, how many updates you've logged this week, and the average number of days since each student's last update.
• 3 Class snapshot - A distribution bar showing how many students are at each mastery level. This tells you at a glance whether the class is mostly progressing, mostly mastered, or split across levels.
• 4 Support spotlight - Flags students who are at the lowest level or have no evidence logged. Click "View reteach group" to see the list and optionally copy their names or open the grouping tools to form a targeted reteach group.

Click a student's name in the overview grid or from the objective detail view to see their mastery journey - a single page showing every objective with their current level, evidence history, and the option to add more evidence.

• 1 Student header - Shows the student's name, the unit, and the section. This is a single-student view of all objectives in the unit.
• 2 Evidence timeline - Each entry shows the level at the time of logging, the evidence note, and the date. You can see exactly how the student progressed from Progressing to Mastered. Click "Add evidence" at the bottom of any accordion to log new data.
• 3 "No evidence" objectives - Objectives where you haven't logged anything yet are clearly marked. This is a helpful reminder to assess this student on objectives you may have missed.

When it's time to share mastery data - with students, parents, or your administration - use the Print Mastery Reports option in the sidebar's Reports drawer.

The print modal lets you choose your scope:

• All students - Generate a report for every student in the selected section
• Specific sections - Print for one or more sections at once
• Specific students - Select individual students for targeted reports

Each report includes the student's name, the unit, every objective with their current level, and a summary of evidence entries. Reports are formatted for clean printing and can also be saved as PDFs from your browser's print dialog.

You can also export mastery data to CSV from the same Reports drawer. This gives you a spreadsheet with every student, objective, level, and evidence note - useful for importing into your gradebook or sharing with your department.