I found the answer.  Turns out, if I make create own objectives, which I did, the only way the mastery data will show up is if I connect them to an Assessment or Practice Question assignment.  I am...

and btw, I did grade the assignments for my "dummy student". I made sure to assign scores that I knew would meet my threshold....still not showing up on mastery bars

my setting for mastery looks like this. i was thinking that it might not be showing up because i had formative assessment and remediation assessment with points, so I made those zero

take a look at this.....   I have a concepts folder with 5 of the course objectives (1-4).   then inside the folder, i created 4 assignments, one for each of the four objectives.  in the assignment...