What each child has mastered, on one board.
Teachers mark letter sounds, word blending and every other skill they teach, child by child. Mastery Board adds it up as they go: who has it, who is getting there, and who needs them tomorrow morning.
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| Child | Letter Sounds | Word Blending | Sight Words | Sentence | Score | % | Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ava Brooks | 8 | 11 | 10 | 4 | 33 / 35 | 93% | Mastered |
| Owen Lee | 7 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 27 / 35 | 76% | Developing |
| Marcus Hall | 5 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 19 / 35 | 53% | Needs Support |
| Priya Raman | 8 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 34 / 35 | 95% | Mastered |
| Noah FieldsABS | — | — | Absent | ||||
| Sofia Reyes | 6 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 26 / 35 | 73% | Developing |
| Class average | 6.8 | 9.2 | 8.6 | 3.2 | — | 78% | Developing |
Built around the way the marking actually happens
On paper at the table with a child, typed in later at a desk, on an iPad, a Chromebook or a phone — whichever is to hand.
A class in a couple of minutes
Every child down the side, every question across the top. Type a mark and it saves itself — there is no Save button to forget. Arrow keys move, Enter goes down a row.
One child at a time
Sitting beside a child, mark her letter by letter, tapping the ones she missed. Targets big enough to press without looking up from the paper.
Who to pull tomorrow
Every mark rolls up into mastered, developing and needs support. What to reteach lists the children and the exact skills, and small groups come out of it.
Ava Brooks — 93%
Ordered by the share of the class who missed it, so a word four of five children got wrong comes before one that five of nineteen did.
- The pig5 missed by 5 sat3 missed by 3 on it.1 missed by 15 ptsSentence5 of 5Missed byAva BrooksOwen LeeMarcus HallPriya RamanSofia Reyes
- bugWord Blending4 of 5Missed byAva BrooksOwen LeeMarcus HallSofia Reyes
- gLetter Sounds3 of 5Missed byOwen LeeMarcus HallSofia Reyes
- cupWord Blending3 of 5Missed byOwen LeeMarcus HallSofia Reyes
- wetWord Blending3 of 5Missed byOwen LeeMarcus HallSofia Reyes
Teams share the work. A grade team builds one Board Template — the units, the questions, the letters on the page — and every class on the team marks against the same thing. Conference sheets, class records and blank recording sheets print from it.
How templates workThe groups make themselves
Choose the skill and how many groups you want, and Mastery Board splits the class by how the children actually did on it — closest scores together, the group who need you most first.
Then move anyone you like. A teacher knows things a percentage does not: who works with whom, who was away the week it was taught, who needs to sit near her. The groups print, one to a page or all on one.
How small groups work- Unit 26 of 6
- Unit 36 of 6
- Unit 40 of 6
Small Groups for Unit 3
Made from scores on Rhyming. Move anyone with the dots beside their name.
Group 1
2 childrenavg 44%- Marcus Hall40% Needs Support
- Noah Fields48% Needs Support
Group 2
2 childrenavg 66%- Sofia Reyes62% Developing
- Owen Lee70% Developing
Group 3
2 childrenavg 91%- Ava Brooks88% Mastered
- Priya Raman94% Mastered
Excel, both ways
Most teams kept these records in a spreadsheet before, and some days a spreadsheet is still what is to hand. So a board goes out to Excel whole, and marks typed there come back.
Export Board
One workbook for the whole board: a Summary tab, a Reports tab, and a tab for every unit. The colours are the app's own and the score, the percent and the level on every row are formulas, so a mark changed in Excel moves everything that reads it. Only the cells a teacher types in are open; the rest is locked, so a formula can never be typed over by accident.
Taking a board to ExcelImport Scores
Marks typed in that file come back to the board they came from, and only that board: the file is checked to be this teacher's, this class's and this board's first. Units with marks in the file are listed, the ones the board has nothing on yet already ticked, and a unit that already has marks warns before the file writes over them. A blank cell never clears a mark.
Bringing marks back from Excel
=IF(OR($L$8<>"",COUNT(B8:G8)=0),"",SUM(B8:G8))| Row | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Student | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | Q5 | Q6 | Score | Out of | Asked | % | Level |
| 7 | Points possible | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| 8 | Ada Brooks | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0.5 | 1 | 1 | 5.5 | 6 | 6 | 92% | Mastered |
| 9 | Eli Novak | 1 | 0.5 | 0 | 0.5 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 50% | Developing |
| 10 | Mia Osei | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 100% | Mastered |
| 11 | Theo Park | 6 | Not assessed | |||||||||
| 13 | Class average | 100% | 83% | 67% | 67% | 100% | 67% | 81% | ||||
This file matches this board
A copy of Phonics K for Kindergarten A, saved with Export Board.
- File
- kindergarten-a-phonics-k-2026-09-17.xlsx
- Teacher
- Ms. Alvarez
- Class
- Kindergarten A
- Board
- Phonics K
- Saved
- September 17, 2026
The units with marks in the file. The ones the board has nothing on yet are ticked already.
Mastery Board is for school staff. Children never sign in.
There is no student login, and no way for a child to make an account: every account comes from an administrator’s invitation to a member of staff. Children are recorded in it by their teachers, as part of teaching them — they never use it, and it asks nothing of them.
There is no advertising, nothing that tracks anyone across the web, and nothing in a child’s record is used to train anything or sold to anyone.
- PhonicsUnit 14 of 4 asked57%, DevelopingLetter Sounds7/8, MasteredWord Blending6/12, DevelopingSight Words5/10, DevelopingSentence2/5, Needs Support
- PhonicsUnit 24 of 4 asked83%, MasteredLetter Sounds8/8, MasteredWord Blending10/12, MasteredSight Words9/10, MasteredSentence3/5, Developing
| When | Who | What |
|---|---|---|
| Ms. Alvarez | Changed a markAva Brooks · Letter Sounds: 7 → 6 (Kindergarten A) | |
| Ms. Alvarez | Marked absentNoah Fields · Unit 3 | |
| Mr. Boone | Reset someone's two-step sign-inMs. Alvarez | |
| Mr. Boone | Added someone to a schoolMs. Alvarez, as teacher |
What a principal and a district office will ask
Short answers here; the full ones on the Privacy and Security pages, which are written to be read by the people who have to sign off on them.
- Who owns the records?
- The school. Mastery Board holds education records on the school's behalf and uses them only to run the service for that school, on the terms FERPA sets for an outside school official. Designating us one is the district's decision.
- Who can see a child's marks?
- The teachers on that class's team, the school's administrators, and the district's — and Mastery Board's own administrators, to set things up and help. The database checks every request against who may see what — there is no master key in the app.
- How do people sign in?
- By invitation only, with a password or the district's Microsoft work or school account, and then a 6-digit code from an authenticator app. The database refuses to make an account for an address nobody invited.
- Is there a record of changes?
- Every change to marks, notes, children, classes and access is recorded with who made it and when. School and district administrators can read their own.
- How do we get our data deleted?
- A school or district administrator writes to us, and any or all of it is permanently deleted within 7 days. When an agreement ends, everything goes within 30 days.
- Is it accessible?
- It meets WCAG 2.1 Level AA, the standard the ADA's Title II rule sets for schools, by our own evaluation. The Accessibility page lists every criterion and how it is met.
How a school starts
We set up your school
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Your administrator invites the staff
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Teachers open it where they already work
A ClassLink tile, a link in a Schoology course, or a bookmark. Ask your technology department to allow masteryboard.com.
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