Amazing platform for assessing students and analyzing data
Community Review for Otus
My Take
Overall, Otus is a real-time saver for me. Because it offers a lot of solutions, we realized that it is important to start using Otus to address our biggest needs first. In our case, it was to have a place for us to look at formative assessment data alongside the other data we have for our PLCs. As with all new platforms, we did have some questions but one awesome part of Otus is that they have a team of people available via chat for every teacher (and I think administrator or parents).
How I Use It
I use Otus for three reasons: giving students formative assessments, having students complete our district benchmarks, and analyzing data from NWEA, the New State assessment, AIMSWeb, and some other systems we use. The biggest time savers for me are that Otus organizes all of the data for me so that I can view results by standards and cohorts of students. There is a slick integration with Google Docs, Slides, and Sheets so I can grade student work using a rubric on the same screen. Students seem to like Otus as well.