🎯 Purpose
Time to connect the dots to turn student data into meaningful insights that fuel impactful decision-making. Otus Insights is an AI assistant that helps teachers and administrators quickly understand assessment performance. Ask questions, make requests, and receive data-driven answers and personalized recommendations all without leaving your Analytics page. This guide walks you through everything from launching the feature to creating student groups and giving feedback.
⚠️ Reminder: Otus Insights is an AI assistant that offers valuable support to educators, but it can make mistakes. Always carefully review responses, rely on your expertise, and trust your judgment.
💡 When you use Otus Insights AI on the Assessments Analytics page, it pulls data from multiple sources, including:
The information shown on the current page
All data available in Assessments Analytics
The Standards Gradebook
The Assessments Gradebook
💡 Why Use Insights?
Quickly understand current class performance to plan instructional goals
Prepare for your PLC meeting
Identify students for small group instruction based on standards mastery
Draft customized, data-informed emails or messages about performance
Get ready for a parent meeting with a personalized agenda
Create a plan with standards-aligned activities to enrich or improve understanding
💡 Learn in under a minute
🔑 Key Features
Feature | What It Does |
Dynamically generates suggested prompts based on the specific data shown on the Assessment Analytics page, including assessment titles, statuses, and standards data | |
Allows you to type your own questions or follow-up questions for a deeper analysis of student performance and learning trends | |
Create and save student groups directly from within Insights based on assessment performance data | |
Regenerate, copy, or provide feedback on any Insights response, and download summary tables as a CSV | |
Multi-Source Data | Pulls from the current page, all Assessment Analytics data, the Standards Gradebook, and the Assessments Gradebook for a comprehensive view |
📊 Access Insights in Assessment Analytics
Step 1: Click the Analytics module in the left-hand navigation bar.
Step 2: Click on the Assessments tab.
Step 3: Choose the Assessment from the dropdown list.
Optional - Select a date range and/or apply filters in the top right corner.
Step 4: Click the Insights button to launch Otus Insights.
💬 Insights Prompts
Assessments Analytics Insights dynamically generates prompts based on the specific data shown on the page, such as assessment titles, statuses, and standards data that have been collected, etc.
Once you select a prompt, Otus Insights reviews the data from multiple sources and provides a detailed response that can include:
Descriptive insights
Summary tables with the option to download data in a CSV
Organized sections for easy interpretation
☝️Ask Custom Questions
Beyond example prompts, you can ask custom or follow-up questions to provide a deeper analysis of student performance and learning trends.
Step 1: Enter your question in the "Type message..." box.
Type your new question below the example prompts.
Type your follow-up question beneath the AI’s response.
Follow-up questions can help you do things such as:
Refine the AI’s response according to your needs
Expand on a particular aspect of the response
Build out a plan for recommended standards-aligned activities
Draft an email to an audience
💡 Tip: Be specific about the information you want. By refining your questions, you'll receive more meaningful, actionable responses from Otus Insights.
🗂️ Create Student Groups
Otus Insights allows you to create student groups directly within the Insights feature.
Step 1: Ask a custom question about the group you want to see.
Example: Group my high-achieving students based on this assessment.
Step 2: Select the necessary students and click Add to Groups.
Step 3: Select an existing group or type to create a new one.
More than one group can be selected.
Step 4: Save.
Teachers: Teachers add students to their personal teacher groups. These are represented by a fully colored circle.
Administrators: Administrators add students to district-level groups. These groups are not site-specific; they are accessible to the entire district and are represented by a semi-colored circle. 
📣 Take Action & Give Feedback
At the bottom of each response, you'll find four action icons:
🔄 Regenerate – Replace the current response with a new response.
📋 Copy – Copy the entire response to paste into another document or tool.
👍👎 Giving Feedback (Optional) – Provide feedback on accuracy and usefulness.
Evaluate a response as “good” or “bad” by clicking on a thumb icon.
Add more information about your feedback.
Select an adjective or type in your feedback and send.
Close the window if you don’t want to give more information about your feedback.
Why give 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.
If you have general feedback or ideas for improvement, submit your thoughts using the chat window.
🔒 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.
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FAQ & Troubleshooting
FAQ & Troubleshooting
I don't see Insights as an option in my Assessment Analytics.
This feature is available for participating districts; not all users will have this feature enabled. If you are interested in enabling this feature, have your district administration reach out to your Otus Client Experience Partner.
Will it generate images, video, and or audio in the response?
The data generated in this report will be presented in formatted text, tables, and charts, which are able to be downloaded and copied.
Can I share data with family members?
By using the Download or Copy option, you can easily share the generated results via email or printed copy. However, to protect student privacy, ensure you only share information relevant to the intended student, not others in the class.