What’s New in Otus?
At Otus, we pride ourselves on being responsive to educator’s needs and innovating to provide the best possible experience with technology. That’s why 98% of educators who use Otus say the tool makes them more efficient and saves them an average of 2 hours per week! Check out our latest product updates here so you never miss a new feature.
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Previous Updates
AUGUST
AI Question Generator
Use AI to automatically generate multiple choice, true/false, and short answer questions in Otus Simple Assessments. Simply pick the question type, write a short description of what you would like students to do, and optionally link the question to a learning standard for more tailored content. AI-enhanced Otus will then suggest a high-quality question or prompt for educators to use in their assessment.
Assessment Analytics
Assessment Analytics provides a comprehensive set of tools for analyzing performance on any Otus assessment. Educators can:
- Analyze overall performance for all students or specific groups of students such as IEP, English Language Learners, and more
- Drill down to see the learning standard(s) associated with each question and how students responded to the question
- Track overall progress toward every learning standard to which the assessment was aligned
- Use interactive visuals to easily locate standards that need to be revisited in future instruction as well as those that they can move past
- Group students with similar strengths or needs together to differentiate or better support using a progress monitoring plan
Third-Party Data Automation to Progress Monitoring Plans
Student scores from any third-party assessment (NWEA MAP, Renaissance, iReady, AIMSWeb, and more) can be connected to progress monitoring plans so the data automatically updates as students participate in testing. This time-saving feature enables stakeholders to better focus on meeting student needs.
Add Students to Groups using Plans Data
Educators can add students to groups using the overall performance level of their progress monitoring plans. Groups can be used to disaggregate and analyze student data in other areas of Otus including 3rd Party Analytics, Assessment Analytics and Standards Analytics.
JULY
Total Grades Display in the Student Profile
Educators can view overall performance by class and grading scale in the Gradebook section of the Student Profile. This high-level look at student performance saves educators time and provides a more clear picture of overall progress.
Redesigned Student and Family Gradebooks
Students and families can now view all classes and all overall grades for every grading scale on a single screen. This means overall formative and summative grades (or grades for any scales being used) can be viewed side-by-side providing a clear picture of student performance.
Preview a Plan Template
Administrators now have the ability to preview a progress monitoring plan as it is being built. This enhancement enables administrators to visualize the plan in its final form to ensure the flow and organization make sense for all who will use the plan to support students.
JUNE
Download a Student’s Plan
Educators can download a student’s progress monitoring plan to print or share the PDF digitally. If a school has enabled plans visibility to students and/or families, they would also have this same option. This feature better enables all stakeholders to access, share, and save important student growth data in an accessible format.
Student Plans Display in the Student Profile
Educators can view any progress monitoring plans that a student may be working on in their student profile side-by-side with assessment scores, standards-based grades, 3rd party data, family communications, and more.
Question Analysis
Visualize how students responded to multiple choice questions on an assessment. View the total number of correct and incorrect responses or dig deeper to see the percent and number of students who selected each possible answer option.
MAY
Question Analysis
Analyze how students responded to each question on an assessment and view any standards the question was aligned to.
Student Performance Breakdown
Educators can analyze performance on all of the standards measured on an assessment and easily pinpoint students who are struggling or those who have mastered the standards to provide enrichment using interactive visuals.
Assessments by Status
Easily sort students by completion status when grading assessments – no more sifting through class lists to locate student work that is ready for feedback.
Easily Add Multiple Goals
Quickly create progress monitoring plans. Add all of the goals (or plan items!) at one time to save clicks.
APRIL
Custom Student and Family Permissions
- Students and their families have access to personalized learning plans and progress monitoring data directly in the Otus platform from their own accounts..
- Students and families have the ability to track and update progress on personalized learning plans directly in Otus.
- Download student data from a progress monitoring plan.