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Mastery Connect allows teachers to design tests and quizzes that can be graded through photo scan for lack of better words. Kids take a test or quiz, fill in a bubble sheet to record their answers, walk to my laptop and hold their paper in front on the camera and it's graded and recorded. Both teacher and parent can see results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Every test uses standards so each type of question needs to be aligned to a standard. Not that this is a negative, it just takes time and effort to design your quizzes and tests. Sometimes parents feel overwhelmed with too much info. They have commented to me that they just want to know if they kid passed the test in general not standard by standard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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23 out of 24 Total Reviews for MasteryConnect
I like being able to pull testing items of different DOK levels and I like the Christmas Tree reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
There is nothing that I dislike. I like everything about Mastery Connect. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Maybe if I had enough time to learn to use all the features, I would like it. I do not have time for excessive training. This needs to be more user-friendly, "intuitive". After 2 years, I still don't know how to pull up the class results so I can see which questions were the most missed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It should not take so long for a reasonably intelligent person to learn how to use this. Just to setup the "trackers" is not obvious and takes far too many steps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
MasteryConnect allows teacher to create their own formative assessments. This gives students IMMEDIATE feedback. It is incredibly easy to monitor learners' progress! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It may be a little difficult to find assessments for certain skills. However, schools should take advantage of the professional development offered so all teachers are trained. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I love using this program as a warm up for students in the beginning of class. It is useful to review and introduce topics. I also use it to demonstrate test-taking skills. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The website can be a bit difficult to navigate if you are not familiar with it. When assigning assessments to multiple classes, it can become time-consuming because you have to go through class by class to get the code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The one saving grace is that when you do manage to find what your looking for it is a treasure trove of useful data and meaningful analytics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
This program was designed by a data genius who is organizationally incompetent. The website is one of the slowest website I've ever been on. The organization is comparable to navigating the attic of a hoarder. Finding the relevant data is an excursion into the unknown. Posting tests to students is always confusing even after 2 years of use. This is not a matter of tweaking things here and there. The whole site should be overhauled! It's horrible! I'd rather trek through a jungle with snakes than try to navigate MasteryConnect. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Assessments are uploaded and students can take them without the teacher having to grade tests. Mastery Connect grades for you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It is sometimes confusing when trying to find a specific quiz or test after students have taken it. In addition, if a student is in two classes in one discipline, his or her mastery overlaps the information of the two teachers. For instance, a student in a reading class (ELA standards) who is also in a grade-level ELA class will have his or her mastery of standards showing within the same area. Both teachers will see the information, making it quite confusing. Another negative is that tests can no longer be taken with audio for those students who need tests read to them. Teachers must then read the test, which ties up the teacher during test time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Very functional and easy to use with especially for elementary ages as they are able to be monitored with their progress using masteryconnect. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Sometimes it takes multiple attempts to log in or ran slow when it was around midterm time with all teachers being on the same server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
With Mastery Connect, you can create assessments, grade them, and see where your students have grown and need additional support in over time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Navigation through different parts of the website can be cumbersome. It is not particularly initiative, and when you are trying to get to different reports, you have to re-navigate through for different classes/trackers. You also can't use the same standards in more than one unit, which means spiraled curriculum cannot be divided into units. It would also be nice if it could "talk" to the program we use for student grades. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Like all software in education, there's a time and place for it. I have seen Mastery Connect implemented beautifully and horribly, to no fault of Mastery Connect. Here are the pros:
- Comprehensive platform for assessing students and benchmarking
- Well organized and user-friendly for both teachers and students
- Tons of standards-based assessments are loaded and ready to be utilized
- Student knowledge can be gauged in real time with immediate feedback
- Teachers can critically analyze data and most of the heavy lifting is done by the software
- Linked to to Common Core standards
- Exceptional amount of content, specifically for ELA and Math
- Editable assessments that can be saved and shared, as well as downloaded. Some assessments are peer reviewed.
- Ability to enter raw scores and rubrics
- Grades can be exported to student gradebooks
- Includes a parent portal feature Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Few cons come to mind regarding the actual platform, but I do feel that there is a steep learning curve. In my experience, a trainer was provided to help orient and provide an overview; however, it was not very helpful. Another concern is that this is a pricey platform. I get it - they are an edtech company, but the price makes this difficult for some districts to justify. This isn't something a sole teacher could really use, either. Another concern is with how school leadership chooses to implement this platform - it is not designed to be a one stop shop for all assessments and it cannot replace other tried and true assessment methods (informal, formative, project-based, etc.), though some leaders insist on forcing to be used that way. So please proceed with that in mind if you are on a leadership team at your district or school. All in all, few cons with the actual platform other than the fact that it is a bit overwhelming at first. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
