What and why
We will retire the Challenge Assignments feature in Education Insights for Reading Progress effective December 31, 2026.
The Challenge Assignments feature currently enables educators to create follow-up Reading Progress assignments based on insights from previous assignments, including challenging words and, in English, challenging phonics rules. We are retiring this feature because educators can already create follow-up Reading Progress assignments based on challenging words directly from the Reading Progress assignment creation experience, providing a more streamlined and intuitive workflow. The option to create assignments based on challenging phonics rules, which has seen minimal usage, will be retired and will no longer be available.
Rollout schedule
- Worldwide: Retirement will occur on December 31, 2026.
Impact on your organization
Who is affected
- Educators using Challenge Assignments within Education Insights for Reading Progress
- Organizations using Education Insights for Reading Progress
Platforms and services
- Microsoft Teams for Education
- Education Insights
- Reading Progress
What will happen
- The Challenge Assignments feature in Education Insights will be removed on December 31, 2026.
- Educators will continue to be able to create follow-up Reading Progress assignments based on challenging words directly from the Reading Progress assignment creation experience.
- The creation of follow-up assignments based on challenging phonics rules through Challenge Assignments will no longer be available.
- Existing student activity and insights data will remain available in Education Insights.
- No tenant-level configuration changes are required.
- No data will be deleted as part of this retirement.
Action required and recommendations
No administrative action is required.
We recommend that you:
- Inform educators who currently use Challenge Assignments about this retirement.
- Update internal training materials and documentation that reference Challenge Assignments.
- Encourage educators to use the Reading Progress assignment creation experience to create follow-up assignments based on challenging words.
Compliance considerations
No compliance considerations identified. Review as appropriate for your organization.