Purpose and Overview
Illuminate Education is a comprehensive Education Intelligence Platform (EIP) designed to support educators, students, and school districts in achieving holistic student success. It is tailored to help educators assess, monitor, and support student learning, focusing on the whole child’s academic, social-emotional, and behavioral needs. The platform aims to streamline data management, assessment processes, and decision-making, allowing educators to concentrate on what matters most – the students.
Key Features and Functionality
Comprehensive Assessment Tools
Illuminate Education offers a robust assessment management system that enables educators to create, deliver, and analyze assessments effectively. This includes:
- Standards-Based Assessments: Access to over 100,000 high-quality, standards-based pre-built assessments and items across subjects like ELA, Math, Science (NGSS), and History.
- Manual and Hybrid Assessments: A redesigned workflow simplifies the assessment creation process, consolidating it into a single-page application.
- Universal Screening and Progress Monitoring: Research-based universal screening and progress monitoring assessments for math, reading, and social-emotional behavior (SEB), providing accurate predictions and intervention recommendations.
Data Visualization and Analytics
The platform provides clear, actionable insights through:
- Real-Time Dashboards: Leaders can monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and effectiveness throughout the year at the student, classroom, school, and district levels.
- Interactive Data Visualizations: Reports and visualizations help identify areas of improvement, track progress, and drive data-driven decisions.
Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) Management
Illuminate Education includes tools for MTSS management, such as:
- Whole Child Data Visualizations: Comprehensive data visualizations to understand the whole child, including academic and social-emotional behavior needs.
- Intervention Effectiveness Monitoring: Tools to monitor the effectiveness of interventions and collaborate on student support strategies.
Student Information System (SIS)
The platform includes a modern Student Information System that:
- Streamlines Scheduling and Compliance: Features like mass scheduling, block scheduling, and state compliance reporting simplify administrative tasks.
- Centralized Data Access: Parents, students, and educators can access test scores, grades, assignments, attendance, and course schedules in a user-friendly portal.
- Customizable Reports: Generate various reports, including grades, standards, demographics, attendance, and behavior incidents, at the class, school, or district level.
Integration and Compatibility
Illuminate Education is designed to integrate seamlessly with other educational technology systems:
- IMS Global LTI 1.0 Certification: Allows integration with other LTI-compliant web-based applications, enhancing the platform’s interoperability.
- Cloud-Ready: The platform is fully cloud-ready, ensuring enhanced performance, stability, and reliability.
- Compatibility with Other Systems: Integrates with systems such as food service, messaging, notification, and Learning Management Systems (LMS).
Equity and Disproportionality Tools
The platform includes tools to monitor and address equity and disproportionality:
- Data and Tools: Identify areas of inequity and disproportionality, track progress in real time, and drive action and change.
Additional Features
Other notable features include:
- Dyslexia Screening: Research-based screening assessments to identify early readers exhibiting reading difficulties associated with dyslexia.
- English Language Proficiency Assessments: Tools for importing and reporting ELPAC data, as well as automating FAST and NWEA data imports.
In summary, Illuminate Education provides a holistic solution that empowers educators to assess student learning comprehensively, make data-driven decisions, and support the whole child through integrated assessment tools, data visualization, MTSS management, and a robust Student Information System.