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Assessment Analytics Overview

For Teachers: Turn your Otus assessment results into powerful insights that guide instruction.

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Written by Monica Burke
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Assessment Analytics gives teachers a clear view of how students performed on any Otus assessment. It transforms student results into visual insights, helping you quickly spot trends, evaluate question performance, and identify where students may need extra support or enrichment. By using Assessment Analytics, you can make data-informed decisions that drive learning — without spending hours crunching numbers.


🗝️ Key Features

  • Assessment Status
    Instantly see which students have Not Started, In Progress, Turned In, or Graded assessments.

  • Summary Widgets
    Get an at-a-glance look at highest score, average score, and average time to complete.

  • Performance Breakdown Charts
    Explore class-wide trends and filter results by student group, class, or grade level.

  • Question Analysis (Advanced and Simple Assessments)
    View how students performed on each question — including percent correct, question type, and linked standards.

  • Rubric Analysis (Rubric Assessments)
    Examine how students performed on each rubric descriptor to pinpoint strengths and growth areas.

  • Standards Performance
    Review mean scores for each standard assessed, and click into bars for deeper analysis.

  • Student Performance
    Access sortable tables with student names, scores, and submission details — plus the ability to open individual student results.

📝 Note: Metrics such as highest score and average score are only available for points-based assessments.


⚙️ How It Works

When you grade an assessment in Otus, data automatically flows into Assessment Analytics.


You can:

  • Select a graded assessment to view class-level results.

  • Filter data to focus on specific groups or standards.

  • Click charts or tables to see detailed question or student views.

Analytics update in real time as you grade, making it easy to monitor student progress and adjust instruction.


🎯 Why Use Assessment Analytics?

  • See how your students performed on specific questions or standards.

  • Identify patterns in class performance to guide reteaching or enrichment.

  • Save time with automatic visualizations — no spreadsheets required.

  • Support data-driven conferences with clear visuals and reports.


🚀 Getting Started

Teachers can access Assessment Analytics two different 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 Analytics

  1. Open the Analytics module

  2. Select Assessments

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


Otus Live Video

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

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