Query Insights makes exploring data faster and smarter for administrators. It allows you to dive deep into your existing queries, uncover trends, identify patterns, and compare results across multiple datasets. By highlighting key takeaways, Query Insights helps you turn data into actionable information, empowering our users to make informed, data-driven decisions.
💡 Query Insights references data from any Query that has already been created. New to Query? Get started here ⬅️
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.
Leveraging Otus Insights
Ideas for Use
Quickly analyze query results to understand student performance and set goals
Prepare for your PLC meeting with data from multiple queries
Identify students for small group instruction based on query results
Draft customized, data-informed messages or emails using query insights
Accessing Query Insights
Step 1: Click the Analytics module in the left-hand navigation bar.
Step 2: Click on the Reports tab.
Step 3:
Option A: Click the Insights button to launch Insights on this page
Option B: Click into a specific Query
This option will present the Insights button while viewing the Query.
Insights Prompts
Query Insights dynamically generates prompts based on the specific data shown on the page.
Once you select a prompt, Otus Insights reviews the data from the existing Queries 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 the recommended next steps
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.
Example: "Write an email to the 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."
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 & Troubleshooting
FAQ & Troubleshooting
I don't see Insights as an option in Query.
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 see assessment and standards data when using Query Insights?
That data can be seen in Query Insights only if it lives in an already created Query. It will not pull data from Assessment Analytics or the Gradebook.