🎯 Purpose
The Recognitions feature allows teachers and administrators to track behaviors, actions, or characteristics for individual students. Recognitions can be positive or negative and are fully customizable, giving educators a flexible tool to document what matters most in their classrooms and across their district.
💡 Who is this for? Teachers use Recognitions to track student behaviors at the class level. Administrators can create district-wide recognitions and view recognition data across classrooms and buildings.
💡 Why Use This Feature?
Recognitions give educators a structured, consistent way to document student behavior without relying on informal notes or disconnected systems.
✅ Record positive and constructive behaviors in one centralized place.
✅ Build a shared recognition language across your school or district.
✅ Connect behavioral patterns to individual student profiles for a fuller picture of each learner.
✅ Analyze recognition trends across classes, buildings, or the whole district.
✅ Give families visibility into their student's recognized behaviors.
✅ Upload existing behavioral data from outside Otus to keep records unified.
🔑 Key Features
Feature | What It Does |
Created by administrators and available district-wide. Can be assigned by both teachers and administrators. Represented by a square icon. | |
Created by individual teachers for use in their specific classes. Can be assigned by the creating teacher, co-teachers, and administrators with class access. Represented by a circle icon. | |
Positive & Negative Types | Recognitions can reflect both strengths and areas of concern, giving a balanced view of student behavior. |
Full Customization | Recognition names, icons, and categories are customizable to reflect your school's values and language. |
Recognition data for individual students can be viewed, edited, and deleted directly from the Student Profile. | |
Filter and visualize recognition data across multiple students and classes in the Analytics module. | |
Family members with an Otus Family account can view their linked student's recognitions. | |
Bulk Upload | Districts with existing behavioral data from another system can have that data uploaded into Otus. |
⚙️ How It Works
District vs. Teacher Recognitions
Recognitions in Otus exists at two levels: district and classroom, to support both consistency and flexibility.
District Recognitions are created in administrator accounts and available for use across the entire district. Any teacher or administrator can assign them. They are represented by a square icon and can be edited or deleted by any administrator.
Teacher Recognitions are created by individual teachers and scoped to their classes. They can be assigned by the creating teacher, their co-teachers, and administrators with access to that class. They are represented by a circle icon and can be edited or deleted by the creating teacher or a co-teacher.
Recording and Viewing Recognitions
Once a recognition is assigned to a student, it appears in that student's Student Profile, where it can be viewed, edited, or removed. This keeps behavioral data tied directly to the student record.
Analyzing Recognition Data
The Analytics module allows teachers and administrators to filter and visualize recognition data across multiple students and classes, making it easier to spot trends and inform support decisions.
💡 Tip: Use district recognitions to establish a shared behavioral language across your school community. Use teacher recognitions to track classroom-specific behaviors that don't need to be tracked at the district level.
🚀 Getting Started
Recognitions are available to teachers and administrators from within the Otus platform. Administrators set up district recognitions; teachers can create their own at any time.
Step 1: Log in to Otus and navigate to your class or the Admin panel.
Step 2: Access the Recognitions section from the Groups and Recognitions area.
Step 3: Create a new recognition — choose a name, icon, and whether it's positive or negative.
Step 4: Assign a recognition to a student by selecting their name and choosing the appropriate recognition.
Step 5: View recognition history in the student's profile or analyze trends in the Analytics module.