Prestigious International Awards Program Recognizes Outstanding Educational Technology Products and Companies
LOS ANGELES, June 8, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- EdTech Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies and solutions in the global educational technology market, today announced that Otus, a leader in K-12 student-growth data solutions, has been selected as the winner of the "Learning Analytics Solution of the Year" award in the 5th annual EdTech Breakthrough Awards program.
Otus is an all-in-one platform that integrates traditional and standards-based grading, assessment, progress monitoring, data-informed instruction, and more. Otus accepts data from any third-party source, including national, state, and local assessments, so that all the different data points on a student can be visualized in one place.
Otus can receive data directly from third-party data companies, including NWEA and Renaissance, so student scores are available immediately following a testing window. For other third-party data sets, Otus has a team that organizes and uploads data. This team meets directly with school leaders to identify and understand district objectives and initiatives, offering guidance on leveraging data to achieve these set goals.
Otus has robust, real-time reporting options that administrators rely on to compare student scores across multiple measures, identify trends over time, and identify students who require additional support or specialized program placements. The first is Query – a module that enables educators to find students who meet an identified set of criteria i.e. scores below the 25th percentile – and the criteria can be across assessments. The second, Historical Analytics, enables leaders to generate a report that compares cohorts of students, including by race/ethnicity, grade level, special education status, English language learner and more, to analyze their growth over time across assessments.
"Administrators are really looking to dial in on student performance in order to provide valuable decision-making. With many learning analytics platforms on the market today, the heavy lift to upload and organize data falls on the school district's leaders," said James Johnson, managing director, EdTech Breakthrough. "Congratulations to Otus for delivering a breakthrough, integrated analytics platform that easily provides all stakeholders, including educators and school leaders, with meaningful insights so that data-driven decisions are more simple and more accurate than ever."
The mission of the EdTech Breakthrough Awards is to honor excellence and recognize the innovation, hard work and success in a range of educational technology categories, including Student Engagement, School Administration, Adaptive Learning, STEM Education, Remote Learning, Career Preparation and many more. This year's program attracted more than 2,400 nominations from over 16 different countries throughout the world.
"We wanted to provide a simple platform that supports assessment, grading, progress monitoring, and data-driven instruction - all in one place. EdTech Breakthrough recognizing us with 'Learning Analytics Solution of the Year' validates our success and momentum, and also reinforces our goal in helping educators and administrators who are overwhelmed by disconnected edtech tools and scattered data," said Chris Hull, president and co-founder of Otus. "We are a company largely made up of former educators which is why we are passionate about helping K-12 school leaders and educators to harness and act on educational data to improve learner outcomes."
Otus is utilized by over 240 K-12 districts and schools and has delivered improved results for more than 1 million learners and their families.
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About EdTech Breakthrough
Part of Tech Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence and recognition platform for global technology innovation and leadership, the EdTech Breakthrough Awards program is devoted to honoring excellence in educational technology products, companies and people. The EdTech Breakthrough Awards provide a platform for public recognition around the achievements of breakthrough educational technology in categories including e-learning, student engagement, school administration, career preparation, language learning, STEM and more. For more information, visit EdTechBreakthrough.com.
About Otus
Otus significantly improves the way we support students by providing an all-in-one platform for educators to gather, visualize, and act on student data to ensure every child – no matter their learning level or background – is on a trajectory to achieve their true potential. Otus was created and built for teachers, by teachers. It saves educators time through the streamlined integration of assessment, performance tracking, and third-party data, while its gradebook and dashboard reports make it easy for teachers, administrators, and families to understand each student's growth. Otus has delivered improved results for more than 1 million learners. Learn more at Otus.com.
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