🎯 Purpose
The Main Admin account is the most powerful account type in Otus. It includes every feature available to teachers and admins, plus exclusive tools for managing district-wide settings, users, and data. This overview introduces each module in your Main Admin account so you can get oriented quickly and understand what's available to you across the platform.
💡 Why Getting Familiar Matters
✅ Access every Otus module from this account, no switching needed.
✅ Gain district-wide visibility into classes, assessments, gradebooks, and data.
✅ Manage district settings like grading scales, standards, and academic sessions.
✅ Add and configure admin users and control their permissions.
✅ Run advanced analytics and exports not available to any other account type.
✅ Support teachers and students across every school in your district from one place.
🔑 Key Features
Module | What It Does |
Your landing page. It displays high-level, district-wide usage insights in the form of interactive charts. | |
Manage your sites, teachers, students, groups, and recognitions across the district. | |
Analyze student data through attendance, assessment, standards, recognition, and custom reports. | |
View class rosters, student profiles, Class Board posts, and mailbox messages for any class in the district. | |
Build and assign lessons, and view assigned lessons for any class in the district. | |
Upload and share resources, and view the bookshelf for any class in the district. | |
Create, assign, and grade assessments, and view assigned assessments for any class in the district. Share folders and locked copies of assessments with teachers. | |
View student grades by assessment or by standard for any class in the district. Add or edit grades directly. | |
Design individualized learning plans for students and track their progress throughout the year. (Available to participating districts.) | |
View and manage blog posts for any class in the district. | |
Manage district-specific settings including grading scales, admin users, academic sessions, uploads, and integrations. (Main Admin only.) | |
Access the Otus Help Center directly from the navigation menu — anytime you need support. |
⚙️ How It Works
When you log in to Otus, your Activity Dashboard loads as your home page. It gives you a bird's-eye view of how your district is using Otus through interactive charts, making it easy to spot trends and monitor platform engagement across your schools.
❗ The Activity Dashboard is the landing page for Main Admin and Admin accounts. The Teacher account has a different home page.
See the Getting Started Guide for Teachers for more.
🏫 District
The District module is your hub for managing people and groups across the district. From here you can:
View all Sites (schools) in your district
Search and manage Teachers and Students district-wide
Create, edit, or delete Student Groups and Teacher Groups
Manage Recognitions available across the district
The Analytics module is where you go to analyze student data at scale. As a Main Admin, you have access to:
3rd Party analytics
Attendance reports
Recognitions reports
Assessment analytics
Standards analytics
Reports including Query, Historical, and Report CardsExports (Main Admin only)
🏫 Classes
The Classes module gives you visibility into every class in the district. You can view student rosters, open student profiles, read Class Board posts, send messages through Mailbox, and manage class settings — for any class, across any school.
📖 Lessons
The Lessons module is where you can build and assign lessons, as well as view lessons that have been assigned in any class across the district.
The Bookshelf module is your district-level resource library. Upload and share documents, links, and files — and view the bookshelf for any class in the district.
The Assessments module gives you full control over the assessment lifecycle. From here you can:
Create and edit assessments
Assign assessments to classes across the district
Grade submitted student work
Share folders of assessments with teachers
Send locked copies of assessments to ensure assessment integrity
The Gradebook gives you two ways to view student performance, for any class in the district:
Assessments View: shows scores across all graded assessments
Standards View: shows performance based on standards, aggregated across all relevant assessments
🗂️ Plans
The Plans module allows you to create and manage individualized learning plans for students and track their progress throughout the year. (Contact your Client Experience Partner to add Plans to your district.)
✍️ Blog
The Blog module lets you view and engage with blog posts for any class across the district — supporting communication between teachers and students at scale.
The Control Center is exclusive to the Main Admin account. It's where you manage the district-level settings that power the entire platform:
Grading — set grading scales, mastery settings, and district standards
Admin Users — add admin users and manage their permissions
Uploads — bulk upload family information or student profile pictures
Academic Sessions — set or modify grading periods and academic sessions
Integrations — enable or disable third-party integrations like Turnitin
❓ Help
The Help module connects you directly to the Otus Help Center from anywhere in the platform, so support is always just one click away.
🚀 Getting Started
Step 1: Log in to Otus. Your Activity Dashboard will load automatically.
Step 2: Navigate to the District module to review your sites, teachers, and students.
Step 3: Visit the Control Center to confirm your district's grading scales, standards, and academic sessions are configured correctly.
Step 4: Use the left-hand navigation menu to explore each module at your own pace.
💬 Need help getting set up? Contact your district's Otus Client Experience Partner, or reach out using the in-app chat.