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Otus Insights: Assessment Analytics AI Assistant

Gain deeper insights into your student's and class performance on assessments.

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Written by Kristin Town
Updated over a week ago

Otus Insights is an AI assistant. Teachers and administrators can save time understanding assessment performance and get support with their most important tasks. Simply ask questions or make requests, and Otus Insights will respond with data-driven answers and personalized recommendations. Share your feedback to help the feature grow and improve for educators everywhere.

Reminder: Otus Insights is an AI assistant that offers valuable support to educators, but it can make mistakes. Educators should carefully review the responses, rely on their expertise, and trust their 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

By connecting the dots, you turn student data into meaningful insights that fuel impactful decision-making.


Leveraging Otus Insights

Ideas for Use

  • 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


Accessing Otus AI 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


Asking 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.


Taking Action & Giving 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.


FAQ & Toubleshooting

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.

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