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Who can use this?

  • Who: Teachers and co-teachers
  • Plans: All plans. There is no plan gate on standards
  • Where: The class's Standards tab, or Settings > Standards

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Limits and notes

  • Up to five standard sets per class. The picker says Limit of 5 sets — remove one to add another.
  • Standards has two layers. Choosing sets is layer one and gives you tagging, standards-aware grading and a per-standard class average. Track standards mastery is layer two, off by default, and turns those averages into levels.
  • Changing the mastery scale, bands or method recalculates every student’s level. Levels you set by hand are kept unless the new scale uses different names.

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Layer one: choose standard sets

1

Open the picker

Open the class, select Standards, then Choose standard sets.
2

Find the framework

The rail groups them: U.S. — National, U.S. — State, United Kingdom, International. Search by name or state. Available frameworks include every US state and Washington, D.C., Common Core, NGSS, AP/College Board, WIDA, ACTFL, AQA, Edexcel, Oxford, Cambridge and RSA, WJEC, Cambridge International and the International Baccalaureate.
3

Choose the whole framework or a slice

Tick a framework, or select Choose grade or strand to pick one grade or strand inside it. A narrower set gives faster, more accurate suggestions when you tag.
4

Save

Select Save. The Standards tab now shows a chip per set, and the tagging control on every rubric criterion and question knows which standards to offer.
That alone gives you a Scores view: a class average per standard from every graded piece tagged with it. No mastery language appears anywhere.

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Layer two: track mastery

Select Track mastery on the Standards tab. In Standards settings, turn on Track standards mastery and choose: Select Save standards settings. Turning mastery on part-way through a term fills in from work already graded. Nothing is regraded. Track standards mastery reads the result.

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How to tell it worked

The Standards tab lists your sets as chips and, once something tagged has been graded, a row per standard. The class Overview checklist ticks Set up standards. With mastery on, the tab gains a Mastery / Scores toggle.

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If something goes wrong

Sets are chosen but nothing tagged has been graded. Tag a rubric or a question, grade a few submissions, and come back.
Five is the limit. Remove one; nothing is deleted, and adding it back restores everything.
Students have results against that set’s standards. Removing hides them from the tab; adding the set back restores them.
A banner offers Add to this class. At five sets it asks you to remove one first.
Opens GradingPal on the screen this page describes.

Last updated 19 September 2026

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