Custom Student Groups

If you work with a wide variety of students or a select group, you can save time by creating a custom group. For example, you could have a custom group as part of an intervention effort, and then modify or remove the group when students advance.

Groups are only visible to you and not anyone else. They help you manage your work and have no effect on the actual student test results.

Note: Custom groups are not yet available for MAP Growth reports. Only MAP Skills™ supports custom groups.

How to Use Custom Groups

Your assigned role determines which students you can include in your custom groups:

  • Instructor role—Students from any of your assigned classes
  • Interventionist role—Students from any of your assigned schools

If needed, ask your leaders to modify which roles are assigned to you.

To create a custom group:

Required role: Instructor or Interventionist

  1. Prerequisite: Your school must have the MAP Skills feature enabled.
  2. In the left navigation pane, select Manage Custom Groups.

  3. Click New Group.
  4. Complete the prompts and follow these tips:

  5. Finish adding students now or save the group and add them later.

To use groups in MAP Skills:

  • Select your custom group from any Class list (you may need to scroll down):

  • Communicate with other teachers about assignments, because they may share the same student in their class or groups

To maintain custom groups:

  • Add or remove students at any time from Manage Custom Groups. (Student data will not be removed.)
  • Each term, you can continue to use groups in MAP Skills. However, in Manage Custom Groups, students may appear in light gray if they are not re-enrolled in the roster import for that term.
  • Each academic year, your custom groups will be archived automatically. You can view or duplicate the old groups for use in the new academic year. Under in Manage Custom Groups, look under Previous Academic Year.