Launchpad Assessment: Personalized Learning Through Student Profiles @ SchoolJoy
My role
Interface design and user flows
Interface design for student and teacher experiences
Iterative refinement of feature
Focuses and results
90% - 100% student adoption
Results were a core element and used in other platform features
Enabled personalized assignment creation
The Challenge
Without accessible student information, teachers had limited ability to personalize lessons. They needed a better way to understand and reference what each student cared about.
Challenge
Remembering 30+ students
Teachers work with multiple classes but can't recall each student's learning style and interests
Challenge
Inaccessible information
Paper surveys get filed away and aren't available when planning personalized lessons.
Opportunity
Always-accessible profiles
Digital assessments create student profiles teachers can reference anytime, anywhere.
LaunchPad Assessment
A 30-question digital assessment that students take once when they join the platform. The information then gets saved to their profile and shows up wherever teachers need it (in class rosters, when creating assignments, when reviewing student work).
The assessment covered 3 areas:
RIASEC (career interest categories like Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, Conventional)
Learning preferences (visual, auditory, kinesthetic, etc.)
Personal interests and hobbies
Over time...
Almost every student who joined the platform took the Launchpad Assessment. It became foundational to how SchoolJoy enabled personalized learning.
Teachers could create assignments knowing that a student loves basketball and wants to be an engineer, or that another student learns best through hands-on activities and is interested in art.
When SchoolJoy began adopting AI, the launchpad assessment allowed for more personalized features such as chatting about students in their class or creating quests based on student interests. AI could reference this information to make experiences feel more relevant and customized.
What I would do differently
This feature was planned and developed in early 2023.
My design style and workflow developed and matured along with this feature! :-) Now (in 2026) as I revisit my past work, there are some items and changes that I would make to enhance and improve the assessment.
Key Takeaways
Clear questions and accessible results made this work. Students completed it because it was straightforward. Teachers used it because the information was easy to find. Good tools should not create extra work.