Important update
Starting with the 2025–26 school year, formatives will no longer be available within Imagine MyPath. Instead, all formatives will be accessed exclusively through Imagine+ Formatives in the new Imagine+ Assessment product. MyPath customers from the 2024–25 school year who used formatives will receive complimentary access to Imagine+ Assessment, ensuring continued use of formatives for assessment and instructional planning. The process for assigning and reporting on formatives will remain familiar, but access will occur through the Imagine+ Assessment platform.
Learn more about this transition or explore the Imagine+ Assessment Help Center.
Note
This article applies to the following products:
- Imagine MyPath Math
- Imagine MyPath Reading
- Imagine Purpose
The Assignment Builder is a versatile tool in the products listed above that enables Teachers and Administrators to efficiently personalize student learning in their classrooms. With the Assignment Builder, you can:
- Preview all available K–12 lessons.
- Create assignments that complement students' work in their learning paths or in-class coursework.
- Edit drafts of assignments that have not yet been assigned to students.
- Assign teacher-built assignments to individuals or groups of students in any licensed subject (Math, Reading, or Purpose).
- Manage active assignments that students are currently working on.
- View student assignment data to inform instructional decisions.
Note
A small number of districts still have access to formatives in the Assignment Builder. For these customers, an assignment can be made up of lessons or formatives, but not both.
Assignments vs. Learning Path lessons
The table below summarizes other key differences between assignments created using the Assignment Builder and lessons assigned to students in their learning paths.
| Assignment Builder assignments | Learning Path lessons | |
|---|---|---|
| Created by | Teacher or Administrator | Program-generated based on assessment results or student placement |
| Mastery Check | At the end of each lesson | At the beginning of a lesson (and possibly 1-2 later on) |
| Number of Mastery Checks | 1 per lesson; multiple lessons can be added to an assignment, if desired | 1 or more per lesson |
| Due Date |
Optional, determined by the teacher |
None |
| Student access | My Assignments tile on the student homepage; assignments disappear upon student completion or when the teacher manually closes or deletes the assignment | Subject tile on the student homepage; lessons disappear upon student completion or when the teacher marks them Passed or Not Passed |
| Educator access to student data | Student assignment data can be found within the Assignment Builder tool; data is only available to the teacher or administrator who assigned the assignment | Student learning path data is available in various reports; teachers can only access data for their classes; administrators can view school- or district-wide data |
| Order of lessons | Set by the teacher and can be changed while the assignment is still a draft | Established in the learning path automatically based on MyPath Assessment results; cannot be changed |
Educator experience
Click Assignment Builder in the left panel. If you have access to multiple schools, you'll be prompted to select a school before proceeding.
You are taken to the Assignment Dashboard, where you can take the following actions:
A. Use the Lesson Explorer to find lessons and create an assignment.
B. Click Drafts to view and continue editing assignments you've created but not yet assigned to students.
C. Click an assignment card to review student assignment data or edit details of the assignment.
D. Click Closed to review data from past assignments.
Student experience
Students who have assignments see a My Assignments tile on their Imagine MyPath homepage. Click that to view and access their new or in-progress assignments.
On their My Assignments page, active assignments from all subjects are displayed by default, but students can filter assignments by clicking a particular subject in the top left corner, if available.
Each assignment tile displays the due date (if set) and a New! indicator for recently assigned or unopened assignments. Under that, there is a progress bar that shows what portion of the assignment the student has completed so far.
Note
Assignment due dates are for planning and tracking purposes only. Students can continue to access and complete assignments after the due date has passed unless the teacher manually closes or deletes the assignment.
Students click Go or Start to open the assignment.
Once opened, students are shown a course map that displays the lessons that make up the assignment. Students can only access one lesson at a time. Future ones are greyed out. Students click Start or Go to begin or resume working on the next lesson.
If a student exits an assignment before completing it, their progress is saved, allowing them to resume where they left off when they return to that assignment.