Insight Assessment

The Insight Assessment Platform and ICON

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The Insight Assessment Platform (Insight) is an online assessment platform. It assists teachers to assess student progress and apply more targeted teaching practices through its powerful data analytics and reporting capabilities. Teachers can review student assessment data for diagnostic, formative and summative purposes.

Insight has four assessment instruments, with more under development, as follows:

Support for ICON Schools

For questions regarding MOI please contact maths@macs.vic.edu.au

For questions regarding EOI please contact Holly Leonard - hleonard@macs.vic.edu.au 

How do ICON schools get access to the Insight Assessment Platform

One of the benefits of a school migrating to the ICON platform is that schools will be able to almost immediately gain access to the Insight Assessment Platform.  However, some conditions must be in place before this access can occur.

The preconditions for access to the Insight Assessment Platform are:

Go to the Accessing the Insight Assessment Platform (Login) page.

At the top of the page, the school sector/service buttons will appear.

Select the Catholic Schools button. The CECV Log In screen will appear.

Staff will enter their current CNumber/CEO login and password. The Insight Home screen will appear (see image above).

Accessing the Insight Assessment Platform

Your school must be registered on Insight, and teachers, students and classes set up. For Victorian Catholic schools if your school uses ICON, it can then be  registered on Insight, and your teachers, students and classes will be automatically set up. The accuracy of data on Insight will be determined by the accuracy of the data entered into ICON.

From June 2020, ICON schools will be registered on Insight if they have timetable information in ICON eSIS. Once ICON schools have been registered they will receive an email from CEO diocesan staff that includes an Insight Assessment guide.

Issues and Troubleshooting

Access to the Insight Platform

Schools migrating to ICON from 2020 onwards will be provided access to the Insight Assessment Platform soon after they transition to ICON. Teachers are linked with class and students based on data within ICON eSIS.
When the school is able to access the Insight Assessment Platform they receive an email with instructions and access guides from CEO learning and teaching staff.

Schools that migrated to ICON prior to 2020, but did not have the required data in eSIS, should contact the Service Desk and request access to the Insight Assessment Platform.

The School has access to Insight but teachers do not see all of the students in the class

The student data that is sent from ICON to VCAA for access to Insight relies on all students having an ICON ID. If some, or most students are missing when teachers log in to the Insight Assessment Platform the school can view those students without ICON IDs. An ICON ID can then be generated for the student or students. Once this task is completed the data will be sent to Insight and refreshed overnight.

The school was already using the Insight Platform prior to becoming an ICON school and is not sure if previous data will still be linked to their school or teacher account.

If your school has already had access to Insight prior to migrating to ICON, VCAA can see that old student assessment records are merged with new records. If the school has a question about this they should contact the Insight team via email: insight@education.vic.gov.au.