Otus Insights is an integrated AI assistant designed to help teachers and administrators transform data into action. By analyzing assessment performance and standards mastery in real-time, Insights helps educators save time on administrative tasks, allowing for more focused, personalized student engagement. Just ask a question or make a request, and Otus Insights will respond with data-driven answers and personalized recommendations based on the information currently on your screen.
Reminder: While Otus Insights offers valuable support, AI can make mistakes. Educators should review all responses, rely on their professional expertise, and trust their judgment before taking action.
🔑 Key Features
Otus Insights helps you save time by utilizing the data on the page for your tasks, giving you more time to focus on students. Benefits include:
Descriptive Analysis: Understand class performance with less manual review.
Data-Informed Recommendations: Discover instructional strategies tailored to your results.
Support for Personalized Instruction: Tailor lessons based on specific mastery levels.
Improved Communication: Quickly draft customized, data-backed messages.
Brainstorming Assistance: Jumpstart your thinking on data-related tasks.
Create Student Groups: Instantly generate groups based on real-time performance.
🛠 How It Works
You can launch Otus Insights while reviewing data in Gradebooks, Assessment Analytics, Standards Analytics, or Query Reports (Admins only).
Gradebook View: Insights responds and offers recommendations using data on the current page.
Assessment Analytics: Insights pulls data from multiple sources including:
Data on the current page
All data available in Assessments Analytics
Standards Gradebook
Assessment Gradebook
Query Insights: For administrators, this provides a deep dive into existing queries to uncover trends and compare results across multiple datasets.
💡 Putting Insights into Action: Sample Prompts
To help you get familiar with crafting your own prompts, feel free to use these prompts as a starting point. Simply copy the text below and replace the [bracketed text] with your specific details. The prompts have been categorized according to their use case. Expand each section for the list of related prompts.
Communication and Parent Engagement
Communication and Parent Engagement
Write a family-friendly progress update for this student's MTSS plan that highlights one strength and one growth area.
Can you write a quick check-in email to [Student Name]’s family highlighting their strengths and areas of improvement before we approach report cards and conferences?
Write an email to parents of students on this report explaining why their student qualifies for a math intervention and how we'll be using this information to inform our instruction during the 1st quarter of the school year.
[Student Name]'s dad is a mechanic and doesn't understand standards-based grading. Write an email to him explaining [Student Name]'s performance in a way he will understand.
Draft a supportive email to a parent for [Student Name] highlighting their growth in [Standard] and suggesting one way they can practice at home.
Draft a supportive email to a parent explaining that their student is excelling in [Subject] but needs more practice with [Specific Skill].
What standards have the lowest performance? Translate these standards to parent-friendly language and write a letter home to support students. Include the list of students for the letter.
Help me write a letter to a frustrated parent and explain [Student Name]’s performance in class.
[Student Name] has a conference tonight. Summarize how [Student Name] is performing in class and also share questions the family might ask?
Create a report card comment for each student in everyday language for parents, and put it in a table.
Write a growth-mindset focused comment for [Student Name] regarding their performance on the [Assessment Name].
Draft customized, data-informed emails or messages about performance for the following students: [Student Names].
Reporting and Presentation
Reporting and Presentation
Summarize the performance of the class on the [Assessment Name].
Provide a summary of this data that I can share with my PLC. I want to highlight the areas where the students were successful and the areas where we might need to focus more on instruction.
I have a PLC meeting tomorrow. Provide a bulleted summary of how my students performed on [Standard Code] compared to the grade-level average.
Create a summary e-mail for my principals regarding this assessment data.
Create a Board report that I can share at an upcoming meeting based on these query results.
Summarize [Student Name]'s performance across all assessments this term for a progress report.
Get ready for a parent meeting with a personalized agenda based on [Student Name]'s performance data.
Generate a list of talking points for a meeting with the department head regarding our progress on [Standard Code].
Differentiated Instruction & Intervention
Differentiated Instruction & Intervention
Create four student groups based on today's performance: Remediation, Practice, Proficiency, and Enrichment.
Based on the mastery levels for [Standard Name], suggest three differentiated activities for students who scored below 70%.
Identify 5 students who showed high mastery in [Standard] and 5 who are struggling, and suggest pairings for a peer-mentoring activity.
Identify students who have mastered all standards in this unit and suggest a project-based learning activity to extend their understanding.
Suggest three ways to re-teach [Standard Code] using a hands-on learning approach.
Compare student performance on standards between the [Assessment A] and the [Assessment B]. Use a bar chart.
Identify which students showed growth on each standard and organize them into groups: 1. Students who improved mastery, 2. Students who maintained mastery, 3. Students who showed no growth or declined.
Identify students for small group instruction based on standards mastery for [Standard Name].
Divide the class into three groups based on their mastery of [Standard] for a station rotation activity.
Data Analysis & Insights
Data Analysis & Insights
Identify which students consistently perform well on formative assessments but struggled on the [Name of Summative].
What is the biggest area of growth for my class based on the data on this page?
Looking at the results for the [Assessment Name], what are some common misconceptions students might have had with [Standard/Question]?
Analyze this query to find trends, identify patterns, and compare results across multiple datasets.
Are there any correlations between student performance on [Assessment A] and [Assessment B]?
Compare performance on this assessment to the Pre-Test.
Looking at the Query results, which demographic groups are showing the highest levels of mastery in [Standard]?
💡 Pro-Tip: The "Context + Task" Formula
To write your own custom prompts, follow this simple structure:
Context: Tell the AI what data to look at ("Looking at the Unit 3 Test...")
Task: What do you want it to do? ("...identify the three most difficult questions...")
Format: How should it be delivered? ("...and provide them in a table.")
Additional Considerations
Accuracy
AI models learn from a huge amount of text across countless sources. When answering questions or having conversations, they use that information to make an informed inference about the best response. This means that like humans, AI models can make mistakes. Review responses, and use your judgment. Providing feedback on responses you don't find helpful allows Insights to improve and deliver better answers in the future.
🔒 Data, Security, & Privacy
Although this AI feature uses models developed by third parties, your data and inputs stay securely within our infrastructure; they are not sent to third parties or used to train their models. For more information, you can review our Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and AI Tool Terms of Use.
✍️ Giving Feedback
Otus Insights is a new, continuously evolving feature and relies on user feedback to improve. All feedback received is tracked and analyzed by people at Otus. Your feedback could help improve Otus Insights for all educators using it. Adding more information to your feedback using tags or text makes it even more actionable.
For general feedback or ideas for improvement, submit your thoughts using the chat window.
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