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Assessment Analytics Overview for Teachers

For Teachers: Turn your Otus assessment results into powerful insights that guide instruction.

Written by Monica Burke

🎯 Purpose

Assessment Analytics gives teachers a clear view of how students performed on any Otus assessment. It transforms student results into visual insights, helping you quickly spot trends, evaluate question performance, and identify where students may need extra support or enrichment. By using Assessment Analytics, you can make data-informed decisions that drive learning — without spending hours crunching numbers.

💡 Who is this for? This article is written for Teachers. If you are an administrator looking for an overview of Assessment Analytics, visit the Assessment Analytics Overview for Admins.


💡 Why Use Assessment Analytics?

✅ See how your students performed on specific questions or standards.

Identify patterns in class performance to guide reteaching or enrichment.

✅ Save time with automatic visualizations — no spreadsheets required.

Support data-driven conferences with clear visuals and reports.


🔑 Key Features

Feature

What It Does

Assessment Status

Instantly see which students have Not Started, are In Progress, have Turned In, or have been Graded on any assessment.

Summary Widgets

View at-a-glance metrics, including highest score, average score, and average time to complete. Available for points-based.

Performance Breakdown Charts

Explore class-wide score distributions and filter results by student group, class, or grade level.

Question Analysis

For Advanced and Simple Assessments — see percent correct, question type, and linked standards for each individual question.

Rubric Analysis

For Rubric Assessments, review how students performed on each rubric descriptor to pinpoint strengths and areas for growth.

Standards Performance

View mean scores for each standard. Click into individual bars for a deeper breakdown.

Student Performance

Access a sortable table with student names, scores, and submission details, with the ability to open individual student results directly.

📝 Note: Metrics such as highest score and average score are only available for points-based assessments.


⚙️ How It Works

💡 Learn in under a minute

When an assessment is graded, data automatically flows into Assessment Analytics.

From there you can:

  • Select a graded assessment to view class-level results.

  • Filter data to focus on specific groups or standards.

  • Click charts or tables to see detailed question or student views.

✅ Analytics update in real time as you grade, making it easy to monitor student progress and adjust instruction.


🚀 Getting Started

Teachers can access Assessment Analytics two different ways.

➡️ Directly from any graded assessment

  1. Access the Assessments module on the left navigation bar

  2. Open Assigned Assessments for the class of your choosing

  3. Select the ellipsis menu for any graded assessment

  4. Click Analytics

➡️ From Analytics

  1. Open the Analytics module

  2. Select Assessments

  3. Type the assessment's name in the Search Assessments field


Otus Live Video

Click to see a video from our Otus Live series on how to analyze student assessment data in Assessment Analytics.

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