🎯 Purpose
The Gradebook module gives teachers and administrators access to all assessments assigned through Otus, plus any grades recorded directly in the gradebook. It offers two views, Assessments and Standards, so you can track both day-to-day performance and longer-term skill mastery throughout the school year.
💡 Why Use This Feature?
✅ Track performance across all assignments in a single, unified location.
✅ Identify standards where students need additional support.
✅ Monitor student growth over the course of the school year.
✅ Record grades efficiently without leaving the gradebook.
✅ Provide administrators with visibility into class and building-level performance.
✅ Connect assessment data to standards to support curriculum alignment.
🔑 Key Features
Feature | What it does |
Displays all assessments assigned to your classes. Each assessment appears as its own column so you can compare scores side by side. | |
Displays and calculates student performance based on academic standards. Each column represents a standard that has been assessed. | |
(Plus+ Assessments) | Use the Plus Assessment feature to add a grade for work completed outside of Otus, in either the Assessments or Standards gradebook. |
See at a glance which students have completed, started, or have not yet begun each assessment. | |
Growth Tracking | Monitor how student proficiency changes over time as additional evidence is collected across assessments. |
Admin Visibility | Administrators can view gradebook data across multiple classrooms and buildings for performance insights. |
⚙️ How It Works
Assessments View
Every assigned assessment gets its own column, and assessments are listed in order of due date, or by most recent assignment date if no due date was set. From this view, teachers can click a student's name to see the full list of assessments assigned to them, and can set a status, On Time, Late, Excluded, Excused, or Missing, for individual students or the whole class at once, and add comments for students.
Standards View
A standard attempt is recorded any time a standard linked to a question or rubric descriptor is completed on an assessment, and the view shows every standard assessed on any assessment with a due date in the current grading period. Scores are calculated using the mastery setting and grading scale your district has selected.
💡Tip: For both the Assessments Gradebook and Standards Gradebook, you can add a grade for any work that was not completed directly in Otus by using the + (Plus) Assessment feature.
🚀 Getting Started
The Gradebook is accessible to teachers and administrators directly from the Otus navigation menu with no additional setup required.
Step 1: Log in to Otus and navigate to the Gradebook from the left-hand menu.
Step 2: Select a class from the class dropdown at the top of the page.
Step 3: Toggle between views using the Assessments and Standards tabs.
