What is a Skill Path?
A Skill Path is a way to assign specific adaptive skills to your students with due dates, so students always know what to practice next. Unlike a question bank assignment, which gives students a fixed set of questions to answer once for a grade, a Skill Path is growth-focused: Albert's adaptive engine serves personalized practice over time, and the goal is for students to reach Advanced proficiency through repeated practice.
Skill Paths live on the student's Skill Path tab on their dashboard, organized by subject, with due dates shown alongside each skill.
How do I add a skill to a Skill Path?
All Skill Path creation and management happens from the Adaptive Subject Guide.
Navigate to the Library and open the Adaptive subject you want to work with.
Browse or search for the skill you want to assign, then click the skill name to open the skill panel.
In the right side of the panel, you'll see the heading "Add to student skill paths" and a "Create A Skill Path +" button. Click it.
If this skill already has a Skill Path, you'll see an "Edit Skill Path" button instead. Click it to make changes.
Click the "Choose Recipients" dropdown to select who should receive this Skill Path. You can assign to:
An entire class (shown as the class name with "Everyone")
Individual students by checking specific names, then clicking Apply
Set a Due Date using the date dropdown.
(Optional) To require students who have already reached Advanced to start fresh, click the "add a start date" link that appears below the due date. Any practice completed before the start date will not count toward fulfilling this Skill Path.
(Optional) To assign this same skill to a different group of students with different settings, click "Add another skill path for recipients" and repeat steps 4–6.
Click "Save Skill Path" to finish.
What do students see?
Once a Skill Path is saved, the assigned skill appears on the student's Skill Path tab, organized by subject and topic. Students can see the skill name, its due date, and their current proficiency level. Skills that are past due are flagged so students know to prioritize them.
Students can filter their Skill Path tab to view skills across all classes or within a specific class.
Tips and things to know
Due dates are a prioritization tool, not a hard cutoff. Students can still complete a Skill Path after the due date — they just need to reach Advanced in a valid practice session.
Start dates control what prior practice counts. If you assign a skill with no start date, any prior Advanced proficiency a student already earned will count as fulfilling the Skill Path. If you want students to practice again (for example, after new instruction), set a start date so only practice from that date forward counts.
Skill Paths don't restrict access to other adaptive skills. Adding a skill to a Skill Path simply prioritizes and highlights it on the student dashboard — students can still access and practice any other skills they have access to.
Frequently asked questions
Where do I go to edit or delete a Skill Path I already created? Open the Adaptive Subject Guide, click the skill name to open the skill panel, and click "Edit Skill Path". From there you can update recipients, due dates, start dates, or delete the path entirely using the trash icon.
What if a student already reached Advanced before I added the skill to their Skill Path? If there is no start date on the Skill Path, the prior Advanced proficiency counts and the skill will show as complete. If you set a start date after their earlier practice session, they'll need to practice again for the Skill Path to register as fulfilled.
