Education Insights for Reading Progress: Challenge Assignments retirement

[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.