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Plans Overview

Learn to use plans, create templates, add students, and update, view, and download data.

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Written by Ethan Kelly
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Administrators can create a flexible plan template with a variety of items that can be evaluated on different scales or even formatted to allow for simple text entry. Then any other administrator or teacher in the district can add and view active plans for any student.

Here are some examples of specific plans that could be beneficial for your district.

Academic

Credit Recovery

Academic Intervention

Personalized Learning

Progress Monitoring

Student Services

Check-In/Check-Out

Classroom Observations

Program/Services Evaluation

SEL Check-In

Behavior Modification

RTI Plans/MTSS

College & Career Readiness

College Readiness

Career Track

Graduation Pathway

Eligibility

Enrichment/Gifted Identification

At-Risk Identification

Activity Eligibility

🤔 Curious about adding Plans to your district? Contact your district’s Otus Client Experience Partner, or reach out to us using the in-app chat!


Creating a Template

The template builder enables administrators to create a highly customized plan template that can be used by any other administrator or teacher in the district. Building a template includes the following:

  • Selecting an overall scale

  • Creating the plan's description

  • Building sections to categorize each item or data point that you would like to track

Templates can be:

  • Previewed before they are published.

  • Saved as a draft.

  • Published for immediate access.

  • Edited by Administrators after publishing.

  • Cloned

  • Sent to other administrators.


Viewing Available Plan Templates

The primary navigation page of the plans module contains a list of the existing plans for the district. On this page, educators can see the plan title, the overall status breakdown, who created it, and when it was last modified. Selecting a plan will open it, the ellipsis button on the right allows teachers or administrators to add students to the plan. Administrators can also create or edit plan templates from here. Find a full teacher's guide to plans here.


Adding Students

After the template has been created, teachers or administrators can add students to the plan. Here are the key details to know when adding students:

  • Teachers can add students from their class lists.

  • Administrators can add any students based on their site- or grade-level permissions.

  • Items in the plan can be shown or hidden per student. Note: Customization is an option enabled in the plan template by the administrator who created it.

❗️It can take up to 10 minutes after saving for students to be added to the plan.


Updating and Viewing Plan Data

Full Plan - Student List View

  • View the overall status of all students on the plan.

  • Export a CSV of this information by selecting the download button to the right of the Search Students field.

Full Plan - Details View

  • Presents a read-only view of the details of the plan, including the description and each section with all corresponding items.

  • Can include a detailed description for each section to guide teachers as they update a student's plan.

  • Allows teachers and administrators to easily see the plan in its entirety without adding a student or opening a specific student’s plan progress.

  • Shows the Item Status Analytics as a horizontal bar chart to break down the details of that particular item. Find out more about analyzing item status analytics.

  • Drilldown on any status bar chart to see all students with assigned values for that item.

Individual Student View

Educators can start adding data and viewing historical progress as soon as the plan template is published and students are added.

Student Plan Page

  • An overall plan status

  • A description of the plan

  • Items that track the status of individual data points in the plan

  • Selecting an item will open its historical data and any added attachments.

  • Download a student summary report by clicking on the file download icon.

Historical Item Performance Page

  • A line graph showing the progress of that status over time

  • A table listing the individual status entry details


Removing and Reactivating Students from a Plan

A student can either be removed from a plan or they can complete a plan.

Reactivating Students

  • If a student was removed or marked complete for a plan, you can add them back to the plan and then see all of their previously saved data.

Ready to mark a student complete? Learn more.


Accessing Plans

Every different account type within Otus can have access to plans. The details of what is available are listed below:

Admins

  • Create templates 

  • Add students

  • Update plans

  • Edit plan

  • Download a student summary report

Teachers

  • Add students (from their own classes), 

  • Show/hide items (depending on Customize settings), 

  • View plans for students in their own classes

  • Download individual student summary reports

Families

  • View their own student's plans if family viewing is enabled

  • Download their student's summary report

Students

  • View their own plans if student viewing is enabled

  • Download their own summary report


Otus Live Video

Click to view a video from our Otus Live series on how Plans can be used to track and monitor student progress.

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