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Assessment Analytics Overview for Admins

For Administrators: Gain a comprehensive view of student and assessment performance across your district or school.

Written by Kristin Town

🎯 Purpose

Assessment Analytics gives administrators a data-rich view of how students and classes are performing on Otus assessments. It centralizes results from across your district, helping you identify instructional trends, evaluate assessment design, and monitor progress toward standards and performance goals — so district and school leaders can make informed decisions to support teaching and learning at scale.

💡 Who is this for? This article is written for district and school administrators who need visibility into assessment performance across classrooms, grade levels, and schools.


🗝️ Key Features

Feature

What It Does

View completion data across classes or schools — Not Started, In Progress, Turned In, and Graded.

Summary Widgets

Quickly identify the highest scores, average scores, and average completion times.

Filter performance by percentage range, student group, class, grade level, gender, or ethnicity/race.

Review question-level performance to evaluate assessment quality and instructional alignment. (Available for Advanced and Simple Assessments.)

Examine how students perform across rubric descriptors to highlight strengths and opportunities for growth. (Available for Rubric Assessments.)

Identify average performance by standard across all graded students to track mastery and curriculum alignment.

View sortable, student-level results including scores, performance levels, grade level, and school.


⚙️ How It Works

💡 Learn in under a minute

Once assessments are graded in Otus, results automatically populate in Assessment Analytics. No additional setup is required.

From Assessment Analytics, administrators can:

  • Select an assessment to view aggregated data across teachers or classes.

  • Filter results by demographics, grade levels, or schools.

  • Drill down to question-level or student-level insights.

This data supports both formative and summative analysis, enabling leaders to identify instructional patterns and monitor equity across the district.

📌 Pro Tip: Use the demographic filters to surface achievement gaps and guide data-informed coaching conversations with teachers.


💡 Why Use Assessment Analytics?

  • Monitor student performance and participation across classrooms and schools.

  • Evaluate the consistency and effectiveness of assessments.

  • Identify patterns in achievement and equity across demographic groups.

  • Provide data-informed coaching and support for teachers.

  • Align assessment results with district standards and initiatives.


🚀 Getting Started

Assessment Analytics is accessible to district and school administrators in two ways.

➡️ Directly from any graded assessment:

  1. Open Assigned Assessments for the class of your choosing.

  2. Select the ellipsis menu for any graded assessment.

  3. Click Analytics.

➡️ From the Analytics module:

  1. Open the Analytics module from the left-hand navigation.

  2. Select Assessments.

  3. Type the assessment name in the Search Assessments field.


Otus Live Video

Click to see a video from our Otus Live series on how to analyze student data in Assessment Analytics.

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