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What is a Tracker?
Collecting assessment data in Mastery Connect begins with a tracker. Your trackers include your student roster, the specific standards taught, and specific standards assessed in each class. Assessments are added, created, and delivered from the tracker. Trackers also provide access to a variety of reports that can help drive your instruction.
Important Note: You will have one tracker per subject or class. Therefore, if you are a primary grade teacher with the same group of students for the entire year, create one tracker for Math, one for Language Arts, and so forth.
How to Create a Tracker:
1.On your home page, locate the Tracker tab on the Global Navigation bar at the top of your screen. Previously created trackers are displayed on this page.
2. To create a new tracker, select the Create Tracker button.
3. In this example, we will create a tracker from a Curriculum Map (CMAP). CMAPs allow us to build templates for trackers that are aligned to our CIP pacing guides and are preloaded with all of the CIP formative assessments available for each course. These CMAPs are aligned to the same sets of standards as CIP benchmarks which will ensure the benchmarks populate the trackers when they’re ready to be pushed out.
Click the Curriculum Map option from the dropdown menu.
4. Click Shared With Me from the dropdown menu.
5. Select the curriculum map (CMAP) standard for your subject area from the list.
6. You can fill in a description of this tracker in the dropdown menu.
7. Add a color to the folder. If you create multiple trackers, you might want to select a different color for each folder to help distinguish your trackers.
Adding Students to Your Tracker:
There are two ways you can add students to your tracker: 1) You can Import Students from SIS meaning that students are pulled directly from PowerSchool and this will pull students based on Homeroom or 2) You can Add Students Individually if you wish to set up your roster based on a Core class instead of a Homeroom. In most cases, the student rosters in PowerSchool are based on Homerooms, but actual Core classes do not contain the same students as a Homeroom. Here is how you can add students with either method.
8. Import Students from SIS Option: To add students to this tracker, click the dropdown menu next to Add Students and select Import students from SIS.
8(A) or Add Students Individually Option: Click the dropdown menu and select the Add Students Individually option.
9. Click Create.
10. It takes a moment for this option to load. You will see a spinning blue circle for a few seconds so be patient.
11. Click the empty box below where it says Search for Students. Start typing the student's last name.
12. You will see a list of students in PowerSchool appear below where you typed. Click the names of the students you want to add and click the X to remove any students you do not want to add from the list.
13. Repeat the process by typing in invidual students and removing the ones that you do not want by clicking the X next to their name. Once you have a full list, click Import Students.
14. You will see a list of your student roster.
15. There is still a chance to remove a student from the roster at this point if necessary. If there is a student name that you forgot to remove before creating the final list, click the student name and you will see a trash can icon appear to the right of the word Edit. Click the trash can icon to remove the student. The student will be moved to the archives and will no longer be on this tracker.
16. If you go click the Trackers tab on the Mastery Connect Homepage, you will see the completed tracker now added to your list of trackers.
Congratulations! You have successfully created a tracker.
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