Mission Control gives you a real-time view of how students are doing, so you can quickly see who’s on track and who needs help.
Depending on how your Space is set up, you can view class-level learning mastery (based on outcomes) or progress (based on steps), and drill in to see individual student activity.
Critical Alerts & Safety Monitoring........................................................................
Session Overview...................................................................................................
Class Mastery Score.....................................................................................
Outcomes & Step Progress...........................................................................
Understanding the Student List.............................................................................
Outcomes (what they’ve learned)................................................................
Progress (where they are in the Space).......................................................
Smart Groups and Sorting.............................................................................
Session Insights......................................................................................................
Student Headlines...................................................................................................
Understanding Headlines...............................................................................
Early-Session Status.......................................................................................
Positive Engagement (Deep Learning)..........................................................
Intervention Signals........................................................................................
Critical Alerts & Safety Monitoring
At SchoolAI, great learning starts with a safe environment. Our built-in monitoring system uses advanced AI logic to analyze student chats and activity in real-time, providing educators with an essential layer of insights for learning, as well as oversight for safety.
Check out our article on Student Safety: Critical Alerts & Real-Time Monitoring.
Session Overview
At the top of your dashboard, the Class Mastery view gives you a pulse check on the entire group.
Class Mastery Score
The Class Mastery Score (1–4) provides a real-time indicator of overall proficiency based on outcomes. Rather than a simple average of all students, the score is calculated using a specific set of evaluative data:
Mastery Evaluation: The score only factors in students who have actively engaged with the learning outcomes. Anyone marked as "Not Started" is excluded from the calculation to ensure the score accurately reflects the mastery of students currently participating.
Mastery Weighted Averaging: The system aggregates the individual mastery scores for every student across every specific outcome in the Space.
Formally, the Class Mastery Score is the sum of all valid mastery evaluations divided by the total number of evaluations in that set.
Outcomes & Step Progress (when applied to the Space)
Outcomes: A bird's-eye view of how many students fall into each mastery level for specific learning targets helps you identify whether a specific concept is understood or if there are concepts causing confusion that need to be re-taught.
Progress: Horizontal bars showing the distribution of students across each step of your agenda. This is your primary tool for identifying "bottleneck" steps where student momentum has stalled.
Understanding the Student List
The student list grants you insight into individual performance and visibility into student chats and alerts with two distinct metrics:
Outcomes (what they’ve learned)
The Outcomes column uses color coding to show a student’s learning and mastery status for specific outcomes or targets. For Spaces activities with defined learning outcomes, Mission Control uses five colors to represent student progress.
Color | Level | What it means |
Blue | Excelling | Demonstrating mastery beyond expectations. Consider enrichment or extension opportunities. |
Green | Proficient | Meeting learning goals consistently. Continue current pacing. |
Yellow | Developing | Showing progress but with notable gaps. Targeted intervention recommended. |
Red | Beginning | Struggling significantly with core concepts. Prioritize immediate support. |
Grey | Not started | Insufficient activity to assess. Encourage engagement before drawing conclusions. |
Progress (where they are in the Space)
The Progress column shows a student’s current agenda step in the lesson.
Step Labels: Represented by a series of segments (e.g., Step 3).
Visual Timeline: As a student moves through the activity, these segments fill in to show how much of the lesson has been completed.
Headlines: Look for headline tags like "Enthusiastic," "Getting Started," “Needs Guidance,” or the red "Critical" alert to gauge a student's emotional or engagement state.
Smart Groups and Sorting
Mission Control allows you to pivot your teaching based on where your students are in relation to your instructional goals.
Smart Groups: This view automatically clusters students into tiers based on real-time outcomes or performance: Excelling, Proficient, or Developing. It allows you to instantly identify cohorts of students who are ready to continue onto other learning as well as those which may require more intervention.
Tip: Use Smart Groups to identify students needing targeted support while allowing high-performers to move toward independent discovery.
List View: A streamlined, alphabetical or status-based list.
Best for a quick "roll call" of the room or to check the Headline tags (e.g., "Enthusiastic," “Insightful,” or "Getting Started") of specific students.
Dynamic Sorting: Click the Outcomes or Progress column headers to sort your list from high-to-low – instantly identify who is leading out and who needs more support.
Session Insights
On the right-hand side of your Mission Control you can view Session insights and Student insights.
While the Progress and Outcome visuals give you the "what," Class Insights provide the "why." This AI-generated synthesis of classroom trends may call your attention to things like:
Misconceptions: Identifying specific areas where the class is struggling (e.g., "connecting adaptations to environmental pressures") and may need re-teaching.
Support needed: A quick list of students who require intervention.
Ready for more: Students who have hit mastery and need extension activities.
Highlighting specific evidence of a student's reasoning: Such as a student’s ability to use "temperature clues for evaporation"— giving you the context needed for a 1-on-1 check-in.
Student Headlines
Headlines are real-time, AI-generated sentiment labels that appear next to a student's name in the list view. They act as a behavioral pulse, helping you understand a student's emotional and intellectual engagement.
Understanding Headlines
SchoolAI uses a rubric to categorize student interactions. These statuses are based strictly on the student’s own words in their chat conversation in the Space and require clear evidence before a headline is assigned.
1. Early-Session Status
These are used during the opening phase of a session to show initial momentum:
Getting Started: The student has just begun or is clarifying the task.
On Track: The student is participating normally with reasonable effort early in the session.
2. Positive Engagement (Deep Learning)
These labels highlight students who are demonstrating high-level thinking or significant interest:
Exploring: Actively branching out, asking "what if" questions, and making new connections.
Curious: Investigating ideas beyond the initial prompt and asking relevant, deep questions.
Insightful: Demonstrating notably strong reasoning and an above-average depth of thinking.
Passionate: Showing clear excitement or a strong emotional investment in the topic.
Highly Engaged: Going beyond basic requirements with detailed, voluntary elaboration.
3. Intervention Signals
These statuses alert you to students who may be losing momentum or struggling with the material:
Needs Guidance: The student is mildly confused or off-track and needs a nudge to get back to the core task.
Struggling: A pattern of difficulty, such as repeated incorrect responses or an inability to proceed.
Discouraged: The student shows a loss of motivation or a negative self-assessment of their ability.
Frustrated: Active irritation or anger is evident in the student's language.