Release Notes: 1/15/2026
🚀 New Features
Otus AI Insights: Standards Analytics
Let AI do the work to help you gain deeper insights into how students and classes are performing on standards.
Key Benefits
AI analyzes standards performance for you
Clear insights at the student and class level
Faster identification of gaps and trends
More focused, effective instruction
Otus AI Insights: Create and Manage Student Groups
Otus Insights now allows you to manage and create student groups directly within the Insights feature.
Key Benefits
Save time by creating and managing groups directly in Insights
Act faster by grouping students based on performance trends
Target instruction with data-driven student groups
3rd Party: Save Default Visualization in Control Center
Admins can now select how data is displayed (line chart or bar chart) by default for each third-party assessment.
Key Benefits
Consistent experience by standardizing report views across user roles
Admin control to choose the most meaningful visualization
Clearer insights with reports that match how data is best understood
🛠️ Updates & Enhancements
AI Insights: Chat Improvement
AI Insights chat experience is now faster and more interactive, letting users start typing immediately and control responses in real time.
New Portfolio: Visibility in Student Profile
The Student Profile has an updated Portfolio section, which highlights a student’s three most recently added artifacts, allowing the educator to view them individually or click into the individual student's Portfolio to see it holistically.
🐞 Bug Fixes
Analytics (Standards)
Resolution: Updated the standards dropdown to accurately filter results based on the logged-in educator’s permissions.
Assessments (Advanced)
Resolution: Corrected LaTeX/MathML rendering logic to ensure absolute value and degree symbols display properly in assessment items.
Resolution: Enhanced Everway (formerly Texthelp) SpeechStream integration to support accurate reading of MathML/MathJax content within items.
Plans (Students)
Resolution: Updated navigation handling for the “Add Students” button and “Details” tab to accurately handle scenarios with zero students, preventing empty-page redirects.