Otus

Learn how to attach a standard to your assessments.

Link, View, or Remove Standards from Assessments

This article explains how to link any assessment that has been created within Otus to a Canvas LMS assignment, announcement, or page.

Link an Otus Assessment from Canvas LMS

A missing assessments report can be downloaded from the Assessments Gradebook or from the Student Profile.

Download a Missing Assessments Report

This article will describe how you can unsubmit an assessment that a student has turned in.

Unsubmit an Assessment

This article will show how to preview a rubric, simple, advanced assessment, including an individual item in an advanced assessment.

Preview An Assessment

Teachers and administrators can clone (copy or duplicate) an assessment.

Clone an Assessment

Learn how to delete an assessment from your account.

Deleting An Assessment

Create assessment folders, add assessment to folder, move/remove assessment from folder.

Assessment Folders: Keeping Assessments Organized

Teachers can leave general comments for students on their assessments.

Leaving Comments on Assessments

This article will help you assign and unassign assessments to individual students.

Manage Assignees of an Assessment

Learn how to unassign an assessment from your students.

Unassign Assessments

Student's assessments can have a submission status of On Time, Missing, Late, Excluded, or Excused (Exempt).

Student Assessment Submission Status

This article will describe the behavior of locked assessments.

Locked Assessments: Overview

How students can access assessments after leaving or submitted

Assessments: Access After Submission

This article outlines different ways to allow students to retake an assessment.

Assessments: Allow for Retakes

This article will show you how to edit the title of your draft assessments.

Assessments: Edit the Title or Type (Category)

This will explain the difference with choosing the points grading scale vs. a term grading scale when creating an assessment.

Grading Scales: Points vs. Standards (Mastery Levels)

When an assessment is shared with you, it will be located in either your My Folders or Shared With Me, depending on its editing permissions.

Assessments: My Folders vs. Shared With Me

This article explains how teachers and administrators can use assessment folders that are shared with them.

Using Shared Assessment Folders

This article will go over how to clone an assessment in order to edit the grading scale used for the items in the assessment.

Assessments: Edit Grading Scale

A free library of pre-built teacher-created assessments and Simple, Advanced, and Rubric assessment templates available within Otus

Otus Assessment Library FAQs

This article contains a list of tips from teachers and students regarding the creation of math Advanced Assessments.

Tips for Building Math Advanced Assessments

This article outlines which edits made to the draft assessment will be visible on the assigned assessment.

Assessments: Editing Content of Assigned Assessments

Allow graded assessments with the status of missing to be submitted.

How Students Turn in Missing Assessments

You can add an audio recording to all Otus Assessment types. The article below goes through each type and how to do it.

How to Add Audio to an Assessment

You can add a video to all Otus Assessment types.  The article below goes through each type and how to do it.

How to Add Video to an Assessment

Learn how to print an assessment (simple, rubric, and advanced).

Printing Assessments

This article will provide you with the basic steps of taking a screenshot on a Windows PC or a Mac.