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We make Missions: teacher-led, whole-class simulations where students use what they’re learning to solve a real problem together. You teach the unit, and the Mission is where the class puts it to work.

Start with the Station Training Mission for your grade band, and run it with your students. Everyone learns the controls together, so your first real Mission runs smoothly.

Yes. Every Mission page has a Teacher Preview, a short video walk-through. You can also launch a Mission and join from a second device with the code to see exactly what students see.

About five minutes. Watch the Teacher Preview and pick the Mission your unit points to. When you launch it, the lobby on your main screen shows the code students use to join.

Yes, and it’s free. Start with the four Mission Essentials videos right on your Mission library page: they cover the basics in under 15 minutes. Want to go deeper? There’s a full library of training videos, and we’re always happy to help on live chat or hop on a call. Schools and districts with a license also get a faculty kickoff training.

Yes, free. Faculty Missions are built for staff meetings: your teachers crew a Mission together and see exactly what their students will. RUN A FACULTY MISSION →

No. Missions attach to whatever you already teach. Tell your class what’s coming, teach the unit, and the Mission is where everything gets used.

30 to 45 minutes for grades 3 to 8, and about 20 to 30 minutes for K-2. Each Mission’s page lists its time, and you can save it and finish another day.

Yes. A Mission is live and whole-class. You open the lobby, students join with the code, and you press start. Everyone’s in the same story at once.

Project the main screen, where the story plays out, on a projector or TV with sound. You run the Mission from the Teacher Station: click Launch Teacher Station and scan the QR code to open it on your phone or tablet. No extra device? Open the Teacher Station on the same computer. Just extend your display instead of mirroring it, so the class sees the Mission and only you see the Teacher Station.

Yes. When you exit, choose Save for Later. The Mission moves to Ready to Launch at the top of your Mission library, with your other prepped Missions, so you can pick it right back up.

Every Mission you’ve prepped or saved for later lives in Ready to Launch at the top of your Mission library. Don’t see it? Check that the class you’re running it with is selected, since Ready to Launch shows the Missions for that class.

There’s no hard cap. Missions are built for a full class, and 40 or fewer works best. Some Missions need a minimum number of teams, because each team gets its own unique information, and those Missions will tell you when you set them up.

Save it for later and finish next class. Missions are built to pause cleanly between days.

Anyone who doesn’t join is marked absent when you start. Rebalance teams in the lobby so nobody ends up alone.

Yes. Students on your class roster join like everyone else, with the code. Anyone who isn’t on the roster types their name, and a notification pops up on your Teacher Station so you can admit them.

Only from your account for now. Missions can’t move between accounts, and a co-teacher option isn’t available yet.

Names with inappropriate words don’t just get flagged. They’re filtered out, and you review them privately on your Teacher Station before admitting anyone.

Yes. In any Mission with teams, students should sit with their team. Want teams that match your seating chart? When you create the Mission, choose default teams instead of random teams.

No accounts and no passwords. Every Mission you launch shows a four-digit code in the lobby on your main screen. Students go to mission.io, type it in, and they’re in.

One device per student (Chromebooks, tablets, or laptops all work), plus a teacher computer on a projector or TV with sound. Nothing to install.

No. Mission.io runs in the browser on every device. For the smoothest Missions, we recommend Google Chrome.

It’s almost always your district’s web filter blocking live connections. Send us your district IT contact and we’ll work with them to allow Mission.io.

Yes. Mission.io runs right in the browser, so iPads work just like any other device.

Message us on chat right away. Most of the time it’s the school’s internet or web filter, and our team can see what’s being limited and help you work around it. Very rarely, the site goes down for a moment as we grow to keep up with demand, and we’ll tell you on chat if that’s what’s happening.

You don’t need one! Your teacher runs the Mission and gives your class a code. Ask your teacher.

You can switch individual students to Spanish in the Classes tab. Full Spanish Missions aren’t available yet.

Yes, per student. Turn on text-to-speech for any student in the class editor; that student’s device needs sound.

No classes yet? Click the big yellow button at the top of your Mission library to add your first one. For more classes, click your current class’s name to open the class dropdown and add a class from there. Add students by hand, upload a CSV, or import from Google Classroom or Canvas.

No. Use Quick Launch and students type their own names as they join. Mission.io saves that group as a class automatically, and you can rename it anytime: pick it from the class dropdown on your Mission library and edit it.

Sign in to Mission.io with your Google account, or connect Google under Authentication in your Account tab. Either way, your Google Classroom classes import automatically. Then create a Mission and pick the class. If a class shows zero students, message us on chat and we’ll fix it.

Yes. A Canvas admin installs it once, then teachers bring their Canvas classes into Mission.io. Setup steps are on our Canvas integration page. CANVAS SETUP →

Yes. Your Schoology admin installs the Mission.io app from the App Center. Setup steps are on our Schoology integration page. SCHOOLOGY SETUP →

Yes. Teachers can log in with Clever, and students don’t need logins at all: they join with the Mission’s code. Want a custom Clever integration for your school or district? Connect with our team and we’ll set it up with you.

K through 8. A few mixed-age Missions reach up to 12th grade for after-school, CTE, and STEM programs.

Science, math, ELA, and social studies, K through 8. Science has the deepest library, and we’re adding more math.

100+ Missions, K through 8, built from the standards you teach.

Yes. Every Mission lists the standards it’s built from on its page, including NGSS and state standards. The Standards tab helps you find Missions for yours.

Check the Standards tab, which maps Missions to state standards. If yours is missing, tell us. Requests shape what we build next.

All the time. We’re always building new Missions and improving the ones you already love, and we typically release one or two a week. Catch every announcement on our socials, @missiondotio, or in What’s New.

We’re always improving Missions based on teacher feedback, to make them stronger academically and more engaging. While a Mission is being reworked, it shows as under construction, and retiring Missions are replaced by improved versions on the same standard. Wondering when one is coming back? Ask us on chat.

Not yet. You can add your own questions to any Mission, and we’d love your Mission ideas.

Go to Quiz Questions in your dashboard and create a question group. Then, when you create a Mission, customize its questions: add as many as you want from your own groups or shared groups, up to that Mission’s question limit.

Message us from the chat or email support@mission.io. Our education team reviews every report.

Every Mission gives every student a report on how well they did, built from each student’s behaviors and performance across the whole Mission. Reports draw on six competencies (Knowledge, Application, Initiative, Collaboration, Critical Thinking, and Resilience), covering the ones each Mission is built to capture.

Human skills: collaboration, critical thinking, initiative, and resilience, alongside the content they’re using. Every student gets a report on how well they did.

Open Analytics and pick the class. You’ll see every Mission it ran, with date, subject, mastery, and skills. Use the Mission dropdown to look at one Mission.

Yes. Mission.io meets ESSA Level II standards, as validated by Instructure. An independent quasi-experimental study of 1,039 fifth graders found statistically significant gains in content knowledge (g = 0.335, p < .001), writing performance (g = 0.269, p = .015), and behavioral engagement (g = 0.173, p = .009). In knowledge and writing, gains grew with every Mission run. SEE THE EVIDENCE →

Content knowledge +0.94 percentage points per Mission (p < .001); writing +0.035 rubric points per Mission (p = .049). Bautista et al., 2026.

The Every Student Succeeds Act sorts evidence into four levels. Level II, Moderate Evidence, requires at least one well-designed quasi-experimental study with statistically significant favorable findings.

Instructure, the company behind Canvas, conducted and authored the 2025-26 efficacy study, funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences. Earlier development was funded by the National Science Foundation. Mission.io’s own research team ran the other studies.

Yes. The full report and its ESSA validation are free to download on our Evidence page, no email required. More research is underway, building to a large-scale randomized controlled trial through a federal Education Innovation and Research grant. SEE THE EVIDENCE →

It plays like a game on purpose, and the whole class is in it together. See what teachers say on our For Teachers page.

Your school’s license reaches you through an invite. Check your school email for it, and accept it while you’re logged in with that same email. Can’t find it? Message us and we’ll fix it the same day. TALK TO US →

Within 24 hours, a real human matches your payment to your account and switches on full access. You’ll get an email when it’s live. Haven’t heard? Message us. TALK TO US →

Message us. We’ll update your school and connect you to your new school’s license if it has one. TALK TO US →

Check your spam folder first. Still stuck? Message us and we’ll verify your account by hand. TALK TO US →

Teacher accounts only see their own classes. Seeing other teachers’ data takes an admin account, or, for specialists and coaches who support several teachers, a Flight Director account, which can create Missions with other teachers’ classes and see everyone’s performance data. Reach out and we’ll set it up.

Message us and we’ll take care of it. Switching to your school’s license instead? Tell us and we’ll sort out your personal plan. TALK TO US →

Yes, for good. Any teacher can create one, there’s no credit card, and it never expires. Every feature and every student report stays on; what rotates is the set of Missions you can run. Our research funding covers free accounts, because free classes run Missions we’re actively improving. Your class helps make every Mission better, so jump in. SEE PRICING →

Nothing switches off. Your account moves to a rotating set of Missions for your grade, kept free by our research funding. Share Mission.io with three new colleagues any time, and all of you get another month of every Mission. SEE PRICING →

Yes. Share Mission.io with three new colleagues and you all get another month of every Mission. You can do it again as many times as you want if you need more time. SEE PRICING →

The teacher account is free for good, with every feature and every student report. Classroom, School, and District licenses are all on our pricing page, along with a calculator that prices your whole school. SEE PRICING →

Every Mission for every teacher and every class in the building, specialists included, plus onboarding, faculty training, and a report on every student generated after every Mission. Price your school on our pricing page. PRICE YOUR SCHOOL →

By quote, priced per K-8 student. It includes curriculum mapping to your adoption, rollout support, and reporting across every school. Start your quote from our pricing page. TALK TO US →

A School license covers every class in the building, specialists included. Got a unique setup? Reach out. We’re happy to work with you to find the best fit. SEE PRICING →

Yes. We send a quote, you send a PO, and we invoice against it. Our W-9 and sole source letter are on the Contact page. GET THE PAPERWORK →

On our Contact page, with our sole source letter. If purchasing needs anything else, send it our way. GET THE PAPERWORK →

Yes. Pay online by card, or use classroom funds, a grant, or a PO. Need grant language, a quote, or anything else for your paperwork? Connect with us and we’ll get you what you need. TALK TO US →

Many schools do. Our funding guide walks through which federal funds fit and how to make the case. EXPLORE FUNDING OPTIONS →

There’s no published discount. Check our pricing page, then ask us for a quote. We work with Title I schools all the time. SEE PRICING →

No. The 3-year partner rate is billed yearly, and if you’d rather pay it all at once, we can do that too. Rates are on our pricing page. SEE PRICING →

No. It’s a license to the platform, so every update and every new Mission is included.

Yes. We’re FERPA and COPPA compliant, a Student Privacy Pledge and Project Unicorn signatory, and happy to sign your district’s DPA.

Yes. Send it through the DPA request on our Contact page. If your state has a shared agreement, your district may be able to sign onto one we already have. REQUEST A DPA →

It feels like one, on purpose, and we love what that does: kids let a Mission push them further than they usually let themselves be pushed. But it’s built very differently from typical learning games. Instead of each kid alone on a screen chasing points, the whole class shares one experience and solves one problem together, using what they’re learning.

We take screen time seriously, and we care even more about screen value. A Mission runs about 20 to 45 minutes, and the screens are there to get kids looking up as fast as possible: at each other, at the problem, at their teacher. The screen is the tool. The teamwork and the conversation are the point.

Yes, and the bar it clears is higher than most of the tools, games, and apps kids use at school. Mission.io meets ESSA Level II standards, as validated by Instructure. An independent study of 1,039 fifth graders across 53 classrooms found that students who ran Missions made significant gains in what they knew and how well they wrote, and the more Missions a class ran, the more students grew. Content knowledge g = 0.335, p < .001; writing g = 0.269, p = .015 (Bautista et al., 2026). SEE THE EVIDENCE →

Yes. Teachers can start free and run their first Mission the same week. The easiest way in is your kid’s teacher, so send them our way.