Showbie Insights brings organization-managed curriculum content, standardized assessments, and performance analytics together in one connected workflow.
With Insights, your school, district, or multi-academy trust can give teachers access to curated resources, protect original versions of shared content, and compare assessment performance across your organization.
What you can do with Insights
Insights helps your organization:
Create a central source of curated curriculum content and assessments
Give teachers access to shared resources without transferring ownership to an individual
Maintain consistent assessment content across classes and schools
Combine results from multiple uses of the same standardised assessment
Compare performance across schools, classes, year groups, and subjects
Review results at question level to identify strengths, misconceptions, and areas for additional support
Give authorized users access to assessment analytics without providing full administrative permissions
What Insights includes
Insights includes Curriculum Libraries, Assessment Libraries, and assessment analytics. Together, these tools help your organisation manage shared curriculum content, deliver standardised assessments consistently, and compare student performance across classes and schools.
Curriculum Libraries
Curriculum Libraries provide a central storage location for curated assignments, lesson materials, and instructional resources. Your organization can manage original content, and also control who can view, edit, copy, or distribute it.
Teachers can then use curated resources in their classes without modifying the original version. This helps teams maintain consistent curriculum materials while still allowing teachers to deliver content through their own Showbie classes.
Assessment Libraries
Assessment Libraries provide teachers with access to standardized assessments created and made available across their organization. Teachers can launch a standardised assessment in a Showbie assignment and cannot edit the original version. When each teacher uses the same assessment, Insights can combine and compare results across multiple classes and schools.
Assessment Libraries are available to all Showbie users, but they become more powerful when used with Insights. By delivering the same standardised assessment across multiple classes or schools, organizations can build more consistent data sets and gain stronger comparative reporting on student performance.
Library permissions determine who can manage assessments and what other members can do with them, such as copying, sharing, downloading, or printing. This helps organizations protect the standardised version while still giving teachers the access they need to deliver assessments in their classes.
Assessment analytics
With Insights, the admin dashboard includes assessment analytics to help teachers, school leaders, and administrators understand assessment results at a glance. Use it to identify students who need additional support, evaluate assessment quality, compare performance across classes and schools, and monitor trends over time.
Results can be explored by:
School
Class
Year group
Subject
Student
Assessment question
These views allow you to move from a broad overview to a more detailed analysis. For example, as an administrator, you can compare assessment results across schools, and then review individual classes or questions to understand what is driving those results. Question-level analysis can help identify common strengths, frequently missed questions, patterns in incorrect answers, and areas where an assessment may need to be reviewed.
How to Access and Use Insights
Insights connects organization-managed content, standardized assessment delivery, and assessment reporting. Before results can be compared, your organization must have access to Insights, configure its libraries, and ensure teachers use their official, standardised assessments.
Before Accessing and Using Insights
Complete these checks before getting started with Insights.
Ensure Insights is Included in Your Subscription
Insights is available as an optional add-on for organizations with an eligible Showbie subscription.
Contact your Showbie administrator or Account Manager to confirm that Insights is available for your organization.
Confirm Access to the Admin Dashboard
Most organizations will already have their schools, teachers, students, and classes connected in the Admin Dashboard.
Administrators can sign in to review this information and access the Insights section. If you cannot access the Admin Dashboard, see Logging into the Admin Dashboard or contact your Showbie administrator for assistance.
Insights Workflow Overview
The typical Insights workflow is:
Plan and create your Curriculum and Assessment Libraries.
Add curated content and configure library membership and permissions.
Teachers launch official standardised assessments in their Showbie classes.
Students participate in the assessments, and teachers mark any responses that require manual review.
Administrators and authorized viewers review the results in the Admin Dashboard. Results from official assessments are combined in Insights, allowing analysis of individual quiz results or amalgamated results from different quizzes.
This provides a consistent process for delivering assessments and comparing results without manually collecting and combining separate reports.
Step 1: Plan and Create Your Libraries
Curriculum and Assessment Libraries provide a central source of content for your organization:
Curriculum Libraries contain assignments, lesson materials, and instructional resources.
Assessment Libraries contain the standardized assessments used to generate comparable results in Insights.
Before creating your libraries, determine how content should be organized by school, subject, year group, folder, or another structure used by your organization:
See Setting Up Curriculum Libraries to learn more about recommended library structures.
Step 2: Add content and configure access
Designated administrators or content leads can:
Add and organize curriculum resources
Add standardised assessments
Manage library membership
Assign viewing and editing permissions
Control whether content can be copied, shared, downloaded, or printed
Update or remove outdated content
Organization-managed libraries give teachers access to official curated materials while keeping ownership of the original content with the organization.
Teachers must be added to the appropriate libraries before they can use the content in their classes. Access may be assigned at the school or organization level, and each teacher’s available actions depend on their library permissions.
Step 3: Deliver your Standardised Assessments
Teachers should launch official assessments directly from the organization’s Assessment Library. Using the official standardised version allows Showbie to recognize results from different classes and schools as belonging to the same assessment. These results can then be combined and compared in Insights.
✍️ Important: Insights compares results from the same standardized assessment. Using the official version keeps the assessment content and resulting data consistent. Creating a separate assessment, copying it to a personal library, or changing its questions may create a different version. Results from that version would not be grouped with results from the official assessment.
Step 4: Collect Assessment Results
Results begin appearing in Insights as students participate in the assessment. Results will appear even if students do not fully complete the assessment or the teacher does not finish the activity in Showbie.
Teachers should complete any required manual marking to ensure that results for those questions are accurate and complete.
Step 5: Review results in Insights
From the Admin Dashboard, select Insights and choose an official assessment to review.
Administrators and authorized viewers can explore combined results across their organization and narrow the data by available categories such as:
School
Class
Year group
Subject
Student
Assessment question
These views make it possible to compare performance, investigate patterns, and move from organization-wide results to the classes, students, or questions that require closer review.
Who can access Insights?
Access depends on the role and permissions assigned by your organization.
Administrators
Administrators can manage organization settings, libraries, permissions, and access to assessment analytics. They may also manage how schools, classes, teachers, and students are connected in the Admin Dashboard.
Library managers and editors
Library managers and editors can manage curated content based on their permissions. Their access includes:
Adding resources or assessments
Editing curated content
Organizing content into folders
Managing library members
Updating or removing outdated materials
Teachers
Teachers can access curated content and use it in their classes. Depending on library settings, they may be able to view, use, distribute, or copy content without editing the organization’s original version.
Analytics viewers
Analytics viewers can review Insights data without full access to organization settings or content management. This role may be suitable for curriculum leaders, subject leaders, school leaders, and others who need access to assessment data without administrator permissions.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Do quizzes need to be finished before results appear in Insights?
No. Results begin appearing in Insights as students participate, even if they do not complete the quiz. The teacher does not need to finish the quiz for results to appear.
What happens if a teacher deletes a completed quiz?
The results remain available in Insights. Deleting the quiz from the assignment does not remove the assessment data already recorded for reporting.
What happens if a teacher archives an assignment containing an official quiz?
The results remain available in Insights. Archiving the assignment does not remove the assessment data from reporting.
How often is the Insights dashboard updated?
The Insights dashboard is updated once daily. New assessment results and changes may not appear immediately, but they should be included after the next daily update.
