Industry
Education
Challenge
The district wanted to strengthen collaborative instructional practices by using standards-aligned common assessments and unified data to give teachers real-time insight into student progress.
Results
Since partnering with Otus in 2017, Wood Dale School District 7 has evolved its use of the platform to focus on common assessment and data review. Educators now analyze district and state assessment data in one place, including NWEA MAP Growth, FastBridge, WIDA ACCESS, IAR, and i-Ready, helping teams make informed instructional decisions.
Key Product
Assessments, Data & Analytics, Standards-Based Grading
The Challenge
Wood Dale School District 7 in Illinois set out to strengthen collaboration and instructional alignment across its PK–8 schools by connecting standards, common assessments, and student progress data. The district’s standards-based grading initiative required a platform that made it easy to deliver standards-aligned assessments and visualize learning progress while keeping teachers’ workload manageable.
The Solution
Otus provided an intuitive way for teachers to design and score standards-aligned common assessments. Over time, the district expanded its use of Otus to centralize student performance data from multiple sources. What began as a standards-based grading solution evolved into a unified system that supports collaborative, data-informed instruction.
Today, Wood Dale uses Otus to review and analyze results from more than 15 data sets, including NWEA MAP Growth, FastBridge, WIDA ACCESS, IAR, and i-Ready, through query reports and visual dashboards. With all data organized in one platform, grade-level and content teams can quickly identify trends, compare cohorts, and monitor growth across subjects and grade levels.
Nearly 71,000 assessments were completed in the 2024-25 school year, giving teachers timely feedback and actionable insights to guide instruction.
The Results
Eight years into the partnership, Wood Dale School District 7 continues to use Otus to strengthen data-driven instruction and support its standards-based grading initiative. By streamlining access to assessment data and providing clear, real-time insights, Otus helps educators focus on understanding each student’s progress and growth.
