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.
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.
- Access and print Application Tasks for grades 3–8 to extend understanding of essential math concepts and create cross-disciplinary connections.
- 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.
- 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.
Lesson types in the Assignment Builder
When browsing the Lesson Explorer in the Assignment Builder, you'll find two types of lessons:
Instruction lessons
Instruction lessons introduce new concepts and provide direct teaching on specific skills. These lessons include explicit instruction, guided practice, and scaffolded support to help students learn new mathematical content. Use Instruction lessons when students are encountering a concept for the first time or need additional support building foundational understanding. Instruction lessons are available for Math, Reading, and Purpose, depending on your organization's licensing.
Practice lessons
Practice lessons provide opportunities for students to apply and reinforce math skills they have already learned. These lessons focus on independent practice and skill consolidation. Use Practice lessons to help students strengthen their understanding and build fluency after they've been introduced to a concept. Practice lessons are currently available for Math only. For more information, see Understanding the practice lessons in Imagine MyPath Math.
When browsing the Lesson Explorer, you can filter lessons by type to find the content that best meets your students' needs.
Note
Some Practice lessons in Math (grades 3–8) include Application Tasks as downloadable resources. These rigorous, printable activities help students apply mathematical concepts to real-world STEM contexts.
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 Due dates are informational only and do not block student access after the date passes |
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 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 (labeled A–D in the image below):
- A. Use the Lesson Explorer to browse lessons and create assignments.
- B. Click an assignment card to review student data or edit assignment details.
- C. Click Drafts to view and continue editing assignments you've created but not yet assigned to students.
- D. Click Closed to review data from past assignments.
Student experience
After signing in to Imagine Learning, students using Imagine MyPath (Math, Reading, or Purpose) select their product and are taken to a homepage where they see tiles for their learning paths. Students who have assignments also see a My Assignments tile alongside any learning path tiles. They click their My Assignments tile to 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.