Are you looking for a way to give students and families a real-time window into classroom success? Progress View bridges the gap between the classroom and home, acting as a dynamic, live gradebook. It empowers educators to share meaningful updates—like recent grades, upcoming activities, and portfolio posts—while maintaining complete control over what is visible. Say hello to continuous, actionable feedback!

The Progress View gives students and families a simple, read-only page of a student's progress in a Class: assessed Activities and GrowthBook Entries, proficiency levels by Curriculum Tag, and any overdue or upcoming Activities. Teachers decide who can see it and exactly what's included.

The Progress View is available with SpacesEDU Pro, and it must first be turned on for your district. If you don't see it in your Classes, it may not be enabled for your district/school. If you're an administrator interested in this option for your school or district, email pro@spacesedu.com.

Note: Options for families only appear if family accounts are part of your district's licence.

Setting up the Progress View

The default setting for Progress View is off for every Class until you set it up. If you teach multiple Classes, set it up separately for each Class.

1. Open your Class and click the Assessment tab. You can also open these settings from the Progress View card on the Activities tab.
2. On the Progress View for Students & Families banner, click Get Started.
3. Choose your settings in each section (described below). The sample preview on the right updates as you go, so you can see the layout before you share anything.
4. Click Save Changes. Nothing is shared until you save.

Who can see the Progress View?

• Turn on Students, Family, or both. Each toggle works on its own, so you could share with families but not students, or the reverse. Both are off by default.
• Once you save with at least one audience turned on, the banner on the Assessment tab changes to Active and shows a summary of your settings, with Settings and Preview buttons for quick access.
• The Progress View is set up and viewed one Class at a time, so open the Class you want to use it in. It isn't available from All Classes on the home screen.
• Students and families are notified when the Progress View first becomes available, but will not receive subsequent notifications.

What Activity announcements will be visible?

• Overdue Activities: lists Activities the student hasn't submitted after the due date.
• Upcoming Activities: lists Activities the student hasn't submitted yet that have an upcoming due date or no due date.

Both are off by default. Note: Announcements include every Activity visible to the student in the Class. They aren't affected by the per-item visibility settings below.

What content updates will be visible?

Turn on the types of content you want to include. All three are off by default.

• Activities: student submissions to Activities. A submission appears once it has been posted to its Space, which gives you control over timing for each student. Submissions appear once ‘Posted to Space’ even if a proficiency level has not been applied.
• GrowthBook Entries: entries you've added directly in the GrowthBook. An Entry appears once proficiency has been applied to at least one Curriculum Tag for that GrowthBook Entry. Activities that you've added to the GrowthBook count as Activities, not GrowthBook Entries.
• Posts: posts with Curriculum Tags and proficiency levels. These appear in the Curriculum Tags view only. Posts without a proficiency level aren't included.

Choosing specific Activities and Entries

For Activities and GrowthBook Entries, click Control Visibility to choose which individual items are included.

• Turn Include? on or off for each one, then click Save Changes on the settings page.
• Activities and GrowthBook Entries created before you started using the Progress View are not included by default. Turn them on here if you'd like them to appear.

• You can also include new items as you create them.
• When adding or editing an Activity or GrowthBook Entry, turn on Add Activity to Progress View for students & families (or Add Entry to Progress View for students & families) while you are creating an Activity and/or GrowthBook Entry.

Previewing what students and families see

Before or after sharing, you can check exactly what each student and family will see.

1. Click Preview at the top of the Progress View Settings page, Access Preview at the bottom of the page, or Preview on the Assessment tab banner.
2. Use the student list on the side, or search it, to move between students.
3. To see the family view, click Switch to family Account at the bottom of the screen. If no family members have joined the Class yet, you'll see a reminder to invite them.

The preview is read-only. If you have unsaved changes, the preview shows them as though they were saved. This makes it a helpful tool for parent-teacher conferences and report card preparation.

What students and families see

Once you've shared it, students and families will have a new Progress View tab in that Class. They receive a notification the first time it becomes available.

• For students, the Progress View tab sits between Activities and Messages.
• For families, the Progress View is the first page they see when they open the Class. Family members with more than one student in the Class can switch between students.
• The tab only appears once there's something to show.

The Progress View page has two views, and the district chooses which one opens first:

• Activities & Entries: each assessed Activity and GrowthBook Entry, with its overall proficiency if one was given. Expand a row to see the proficiency for each Curriculum Tag. Overdue and Upcoming Activities appear at the top of this view if you've turned them on. Posts not associated with Activities do not appear in this view.
• Curriculum Tags: each Curriculum Tag with the most recent proficiency level and the number of pieces of evidence behind it. Expand a tag to see the Activities, GrowthBook Entries and Posts it was assessed on. Overdue and Upcoming Activities do not appear in this view.

Where an Activity submission or Post can be opened, students and families see a View Post link. This respects your Space visibility settings: if a student or family member can't access the Space, they still see the proficiency, but not the link. GrowthBook Entries don't have posts, so they never show a link.

Students can click View Activity on an overdue Activity to go straight to it. Families can see overdue Activities but can't open them.

A How does it work? panel explains your district's Proficiency Scale to students and families.

Progress View and Reporting Spaces

The Progress View and Reporting Spaces are separate features with separate settings. Turning on the Progress View doesn't change who can see your Reporting Space, and the reverse is also true. The Progress View always covers one Class at a time, and uses original Posts rather than Post copies added to a Reporting Space.

Still have questions?

Check out How do I use Proficiency Scales? and What is the GrowthBook? for more on assessment in SpacesEDU.

Teachers can reach us at hello@spacesedu.com. District Leads can contact their Success Specialist, who can activate Progress View and set the district's default view.

Updated on: 04/11/2026