On September 23rd, 2021 you'll find a whole set of new features in your school that enable you to take a people-first approach to guiding your learners and giving timely feedback.

Tip: You can follow along, view recorded live sessions, and more in the Season 2 Path:

Here's a tour of every core feature launching with Season 2:

Visible to everyone

Your Home Screen now includes two areas:

1) Paths: All the courses you're learning, teaching, or designing. This area works like before, so there's nothing to relearn.

2) People: A new screen that helps you start People-first. You can assess progress and give feedback all from one screen.

On the People screen, you'll see all of the members of your Cohorts and Mentor Groups (a new feature we'll cover up ahead).

You can view people in two ways:

💡 Tip: use the search feature to quickly find anyone. You can also search for "waiting" or "feedback" to see everyone who has something that needs review.

Visible to staff members with access. (Coming soon for learners too.)

When you tap or click on any person, their Profile Card appears to the side. Each Profile Card shows a member's picture, name, last active time, and a link to email them.

Below this information, you'll find three helpful areas that organize everything you might want to do for a person all in one place:

1) Paths: All the course paths they're taking or have already completed.

You can click into any course path to see what steps they've completed, skipped, or are pending review.

💡 Tip: If you notice a learner seems to be stuck on a particular step, tap that step to open the Feedback panel and send them a message - they'll get a notification with your message and a link to the step they left off on.

2) Activity: A timeline of a learner's activity across all the paths they're in. From here, you'll have one-tap access to their discussion posts and replies, step completions, new course registrations, and more.

💡 Tip: if learners complete multiple steps in one session, you'll also see a time estimate which is a great way to get a sense of how long people spend learning through different lessons.

3) Review: An all-new section that includes a learner's completions that are pending review or reviewed in the past all in one place.

Select a completion, and the feedback panel will appear on the same screen, so there's no need to navigate in and out of paths and scorecards to give feedback or grade work.

💡Tip: use the dropdown to reveal any person's step completions that are pending review, already reviewed, and more.

For administrators. (Coming soon for teachers, mentors, and moderators)

Mentors help each learner explore just the right next path for them. Now you can easily add to any individual learner's personal path in just a few taps:

You can add as many course paths as you'd like, select the cohorts they should join, and even include a personal message.

Once you've added to a learner's path, they'll be notified and see it as ready to start on their Home > Learn screen right away, without needing to click an invitation link first.

See more about Add to Path here.

For path designers, teachers, mentors, and moderators.

Speaking of giving feedback, we have two updates to Submit Blocks for you that make it easier than ever to collect work and review it. Here's what's new:

1) Submit multiple files & file types

Learners can now upload multiple files – images, docs, etc. – to a Submit block so there's no need to create different blocks for each aspect of a project.

You can use the "any file" option

2) Preview files without downloading

Now you can preview submitted Word Docs, images, PDFs, and more without having to add yet another downloaded file to your desktop:

Learn more about the Submit Block here.

Managed by Administrators; visible to Mentors and Group Admins.

Mentor Groups are an entirely new way of offering personal guidance to anyone using Pathwright. If you're a mentor, coach, or tutor who personally guides people through a tailored learning experience, then you'll want to give them a try. Here's how they work:

As an Administrator, you can create a new Group in two places:

Each Group has three member roles:

Mentors see all the members of their Groups on their Home > People tab with single tap access to their Profile Cards and everything they need to guide each person.

Group Admins see all the members of their Groups as well as the additional tools for organizing and managing the Groups. But Group Admins don't receive in-app or email notifications for reviewing submissions.

Over the past three years, we've developed Mentor Groups in beta with an increasing number of partners. But just about everyone organizes and uses their Groups to educate in a different way.

We saw so many different uses of Groups during the beta that we can't wait to see how people use them more widely. But we know it can also feel a little overwhelming to start out, so here are a few starter ideas:

If you'd like to explore creative ways to take a mentor approach to your teaching, we'd recommend signing up to join Christian in an Ed Labs session

Every plan includes at least one Mentor Group with all the features above. You can upgrade to create more Groups anytime.

Here are the details:

A new weekly email with everything you need to know to keep your group on track week to week.

The email digest includes:

💡Tip: you can turn the Mentor Digest off or on for any Group where you're a Mentor or Group Admin by using the Group Options menu:

If you're on any standard plan, the good news is that you'll have access to one Mentor Group for your account as soon as we launch (and your plan fees will not change.)

The number of Mentor Groups included with your account will vary by plan:

Not sure which plan is right for you? Check out our plan guide.

Each Season comes with a bundle of new features at launch and continues with a series of Feature Drops.

Feature Drops expand what you can do with Pathwright around the Season theme—so in this case, Mentorship.

Find more on the completed Drops for Season 2 here: