Mission Control provides a real-time snapshot of student progress, helping you differentiate instruction by highlighting students on the path to subject mastery and those struggling with proficiency or stuck on a specific task.
To make student progress actionable and easy to view, we use a color-coded scale for mastery and a 1-4 numerical range to show completed steps.
The Mastery Scale
For activities that have specific learning outcomes or targets, Mission Control uses five colors and a 1-4 range to indicate a student's current standing:
Color | Level | What it means |
Blue | Above level | Performing above the set expectations or targets. |
Green | Proficient | Currently on track and hitting the target goals. |
Yellow | Developing | Progressing, but with gaps or needing some intervention. |
Red | Below level | Significantly behind or struggling with the material. |
Grey | Just started | Not started or not far enough along to be evaluated. |
Current Step (Real-Time Status): The solid colored blocks indicate the step a student is currently working on. The color reflects their real-time mastery level or engagement status.
Completed Steps (Historical Performance): Light-colored boxes containing numbers (1–4) represent steps the student has already finished. These allow you to see a student's growth trajectory at a glance:
Below level: The student finished this step with significant gaps.
Developing: The student finished with some understanding but lacked full mastery.
Proficient: The student successfully met the criteria for this step.
Above level: The student exceeded the criteria for this step.
Understanding the Checkmark
Unlike the colors above, which measure quality and mastery, the checkmark simply measures step completion.
A purple checkmark appears for steps that do not have a graded outcome (e.g., "Read this article" or "Submit your reflection"). If you see a checkmark, it indicates the student has completed that specific step, regardless of a "score."
More Help
Mastery vs. Completion: If a student has a green circle, they are meeting the learning goal. If they have a checkmark, they have simply finished the task.
UI Updates: We are currently working on adding these definitions directly into the Mission Control interface to make using mission control even easier.