Instructure Launches AI-Powered Analytics for Educators with New Product, Intelligent Insights

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Intelligent Insights is a thoughtfully designed AI and self-service analytics product offering data-driven insights to improve course effectiveness, LTI usage and student success.

SALT LAKE CITY, July 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Instructure, the leading learning technology ecosystem and maker of Canvas LMS, launched Intelligent Insights, a new product powered by AI and analytics, unlocking a level of self-service reporting capabilities generally unavailable to educational institutions. Once enabled, Intelligent Insights integrates seamlessly with Canvas and is accessible via the new Analytics Hub. Through Intelligent Insights, users can customize leading and lagging criteria to understand which students might need extra support, evaluate course readiness, understand LTI usage and ask complex questions with the "Ask Your Data" conversational AI feature to generate impactful insight reports within minutes.

Intelligent Insights allows users to explore data with AI-powered insights and makes complex data analysis accessible to all, regardless of technical expertise.
Intelligent Insights allows users to explore data with AI-powered insights and makes complex data analysis accessible to all, regardless of technical expertise.

Intelligent Insights enhances teaching and learning outcomes by expediting historically manual tasks securely and effectively through highly customizable technology. The user-friendly dashboards facilitate ad-hoc and custom reporting, allowing administrators to alert educators when students fall below a certain threshold, seamlessly monitor the usage of LTI apps across the institution and ensure all courses meet standards and requirements.

Automating reporting and monitoring gives educators more time to build relationships with each student, facilitating a personalized learning experience. In a 2023 study, 92% of faculty rated "adequate prep time" as important instructional support for teaching. In addition, 76% of faculty stated technology and tools, such as AI and analytics tools, are important to the overall impact of their teaching. Intelligent Insights provides innovative real-time solutions to address the evolving needs of educators and administrators by making it possible to implement best practices that were previously too expensive, challenging and time-consuming.

Key features of Intelligent Insights include:

  • Ask Your Data uses intuitive, conversational AI to simplify querying data with a natural language interface that makes complex data analysis accessible to all, regardless of technical expertise;

  • Students in Need of Attention enables proactive monitoring of institution-defined leading and lagging indicators, giving better visibility of students in need of additional support;

  • Course Readiness assesses the preparedness of courses and ensures consistent, high-quality educational delivery;

  • LTI Usage Reporting offers comprehensive insights into third-party tool utilization for better resource management.