How a TimeBack student moves from one app to the next

Is it mapped? Yes. Each subject is one ordered sequence of courses and tests in PowerPath, and the progression service follows it automatically, except for the cases listed under Exceptions and Known issues below. This page is drawn from the live production sequences.

1 · How a student moves from one app to the next

1Placement testFails step down a grade until a pass; passes step up a grade until a fail.
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2Course in that grade's appe.g. Zearn, MobyMax. 2+ courses in a grade are done in order.
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3Course reaches 100%Reported by the app or calculated by TimeBack. Partial progress never moves the student.
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4End-of-course testAlphaTest (also called MasteryTrack). Reading PK-2: AlphaLiteracy battery.
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5Pass?Score ≥ 89.5%. FastMath and Reading PK-2 use the test's pass/fail instead.
Pass → next grade's first courseThis is where students switch apps, e.g. Math G2 Zearn → G3 AlphaMath (section 2). Exceptions below go straight to the next test.
Fail → hole-filling, then the same testBuilt from the test's gap analysis in the grade's HF app (dashed chips). FastMath and Reading PK-2 use fixed HF courses. No-HF cases below.
Placement resultJudged at the boundary grade (one above the highest pass, or the lowest grade tested if none passed). Below 59.5% → that grade's course. 59.5–89.5% → hole-filling, then the placement test again. Math, FastMath, Reading PK-2, Social Studies: a fail always gets the course. Language G9-12: always hole-filling. Science G10-11 at 59.5–89.5%: no HF exists, nothing is assigned.

Where placement starts

  • MAP grade − 1 when set from the placement page; otherwise K, or G3 if age-grade G6+.
  • Science: G3 when opened by the unlock (placement page: Science MAP − 1, min G3).
  • Writing: Language's start (G3–G8).
  • Vocabulary: Reading's start (min G3) when it unlocks automatically; from the placement page, G3.
  • FastMath: opens when the student's first Math placement result arrives, at that test's grade (max G5), starting with Addition; every operation's test before the next grade. At schools without Math it is not assigned automatically.
  • Social Studies: the diagnostic picks G3-8; no step down.

New subjects unlock (automatic)

Math, Reading, Languageopen day one, if the school's subject list includes them
Vocabularymaster Reading G2*
Writingmaster Language G3
Sciencemaster Math, Reading*, Language G2 + a FastMath grade
Social Studiesmaster Reading G2* (automatic placement: pilot list only, ~12 students)
  • Science, Vocab, Writing: age-grade G2+
  • *Reading G2 = passing the G2 AlphaLiteracy battery (includes the fluency check), or any Reading G3+ pass; summer-group students skip the fluency check
  • Placement page: uses its own similar checks for Vocabulary, Writing and Science (Science still needs a FastMath grade); Social Studies shows there as locked until Reading G2 is mastered, and opens only after its diagnostic
  • Some schools run only some subjects (e.g. only Math, or only Reading/Language/FastMath)

Exceptions

  • FastMath: one test per operation; HF only for the failed operation
  • Science G6-8 share 5 courses; passing G6/G7 → next grade's test
  • Language G8-11: Edmentum English on hold, so a pass goes straight to the next grade's test (G12 pass completes Language); G9-12 fail → Freckle
  • Fail with no HF: Math Pre-K (nothing), FastMath Pre-K and Science G10-11 (redo the course), Scroll (nothing automatic)
  • Edmentum counts as done at 100% + final grade ≥ 60%, academic enrollments only (Social Studies G9-12: then next course, no test); NCAA/enrichment Edmentum enrollments never advance automatically
  • Social Studies (pilot): a diagnostic assigns an AlphaTest placement test (G3-8) or enrolls the G3 Scroll course; finishing a Scroll course does not assign its test
  • Math G12: no test; finishing the course completes Math

Known issues right now

  • Reading PK-2: a failed retake currently gets the next test right away, before the student does the new AlphaPhonics practice round
  • Math: passing the G11 placement test (the highest) currently assigns nothing; G12 Precalculus is enrolled manually
  • Language K-2: Lalilo is being retired and its hole-filling is failing, so many students are stuck

2 · App path by subject

3 · Full map: every subject and grade

course apphole-filling appgrey = test
Click an app to highlight it. Click a cell for its exact stages and where a pass or fail goes.