Otus Insights is an AI assistant for the standards view of the Gradebook. Teachers can save time understanding standards performance for a class and get support with their most important tasks. Ask questions or make requests, and Otus Insights will respond and offer recommendations using data on the page. Help the feature continuously improve and evolve for other educators by giving feedback on responses.
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.
Accessing Otus Insights
Step 1: Click the Gradebook module in the left-hand navigation bar.
Step 2: Ensure you’ve opened the Standards view.
Step 3(Optional): Otus Insights responds and offers recommendations using data on the page. If you want to ask about data with other settings or for another class, use the dropdown menus to select your class and choose the following details:
Grading Period
Grading Scale
Mastery Setting
Step 4: Click the Insights button to launch Otus Insights.
New to the Standards Gradebook? Click here to learn more.
Example Prompts
When you launch Insights, you'll see five example prompts to get you started:
Which standards are my students excelling at?
Which standards are my students struggling with?
Which students have the highest mastery levels?
Which students have the lowest mastery levels?
What content needs to be retaught?
Once you select a prompt, Otus Insights reviews the standards data on the page 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
Example:
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 pre-set 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
Step 2: Click the paper airplane icon or press Return/Enter on your keyboard to submit.
💡 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 – 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. (Optional)
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 that 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.
💡 Tip: Use the Download CSV option to save a table from the response. Select Copy from the options to quickly copy all the information from the response.
Leveraging Otus Insights
Benefits
Otus Insights helps you save time by utilizing standardized data for your tasks, giving you more time to focus on students. Benefits include:
Descriptive Analysis: Understand class performance with less manual review.
Data-Informed Recommendations: Discover potential strategies to enhance student learning using data.
Support for Personalized Instruction: Tailor lessons and interventions based on mastery levels.
Improved Communication: Quickly draft customized, data-backed communication.
Brainstorming Assistance: Jumpstart your thinking on data-related tasks.
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
How It Works
Otus Insights responds and offers recommendations using data on the page. Launch the feature while reviewing the data you’d like to explore and use. At this time, it can’t refer to data from other pages or features in Otus. However, Otus Insights is powered by large-scale AI models with wide-ranging knowledge so you can benefit from extensive information beyond Otus.
Accuracy
AI models learn from a huge amount of text across countless sources. When answering questions or having conversations, they use that information to make an informed inference about the best response. This means that like humans, AI models can make mistakes. Review responses, and use your judgment. Providing feedback on responses you don't find helpful allows Insights to improve and deliver better answers in the future.
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.
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FAQ and Troubleshooting
FAQ and Troubleshooting
I don't see Insights as an option in my standards gradebook.
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 texts and tables, which can 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.