Create Aspire Cohorts

Overview

Course managers with Owner or Cohort Manager permissions can create custom groups called cohorts in Lexia Aspire​® Professional Learning.

AnAspirecohort is a group of participants in Aspire.

This article explains how to create a new cohort and add participants to it.

Applies to: Course managers with Owner or Cohort Manager permission for the Lexia Aspire​® Professional Learning course of study.

Does not apply to: Course managers with License Manager or View Only permission, or educators who are enrolled in the Lexia Aspire​® Professional Learning course of study.

How do I create a cohort and add participants to it?

1. Log in to lexiaaspire.com.

2. Select the Manage menu, then select Cohorts from the dropdown menu.

3. Select the Create Cohort button.

4. Give your cohort a name.

5. To add members to the cohort, search participants by name, location, job title, grade, user type, or role.

   Participants will only appear in the list if they have already been added to the Aspire learning platform.

   • Use the Search box or the dropdown menus to find and select participants.

   • Check the boxes next to the names of participants you want to add to the cohort.

   You can use multiple criteria at once to narrow your search. For example, you can find all participants with the role of “teacher” at a particular school.

   Group participants into cohorts based on how you would like to organize reporting of participant progress in your implementation.

   If your implementation includes participants you would like to assign to a pathway, those participants must be in a pathway cohort.

   For more information on pathways and pathway cohorts, see For Course Managers and Leaders: Aspire Pathway FAQ.

   Each cohort has its own Overview page in Aspire, with reports for tracking the group as a unit.

   Each Cohort Overview page has its own Progress Report for tracking the members of that cohort, viewing their progress, or downloading their progress data as a spreadsheet.

   For example, you might group participants because they teach at the same school, or they have the same unit professional learning schedule.

6. When you have finished adding participants, select Save New Cohort.

   You’ll return to the School or DistrictOverview, where you’ll see your new cohort in the list. You may need to refresh the page in order to see the new cohort you created.

   If your school or district has many cohorts, the favorites feature allows you to focus on only the cohorts that you actively monitor. From your list of cohorts, select the heart icon next to a cohort name to add it to your favorites.

To assign a pathway to your newly created cohort, see For Course Managers: Adding Participants to a Pathway Cohort in Aspire.