What is Student Atlas?

Student Atlas shows you how each student is progressing, how they're engaging with their learning, and what to do next. Every student's profile now has two tabs: Academic and Engagement.

Academic Insights show how a student is doing on every standard and skill, and how that has changed over time.
Engagement Insights show how a student is spending their time in Kira, using the AI Tutor, and turning in work.
Uncover Insights and Ask Kira help you understand what you're seeing and decide what to do next.

Student Atlas uses graded work on questions tagged with standards and difficulty levels. If your course or resource content doesn't include standards and difficulty levels, there is no data to show in student profiles.

Finding a student's profile

Select Student Atlas in the left navigation.
Choose a class, then a student, from the drop downs at the top of the page.
Switch between the Academic and Engagement tabs.

The filters at the top apply to both tabs:

Time window: Today, Last 7 days, Last 14 days, Last 30 days, All time, or a custom range.
Filter by resource: show data from all resources, only personalized resources, or only assessments.

Academic Insights

The Academic tab shows how a student is doing on every standard, and how that has changed since each standard was introduced.

Standard Progress

Each dot on the chart is one or more standards, placed at the student's current mastery level. Press play to watch the dots move between levels over the selected time window. Lines show each standard's path, and hovering over a dot shows its level and whether it is improving, steady, or slipping.

Use the Standards / Skills toggle to switch between standards and the skills underneath them.

A standard's level is the median of the levels of its skills that have graded work. Skills that haven't been taught yet are marked Not introduced and don't count toward the standard.

Standards needing attention

Below the chart, cards list the standards that need attention in the selected window, with each standard's code, mastery level, and direction (improving, steady, or slipping). Select View all to see the full list.

Standard and Skill details

Select a standard to see its skills, its progress over time, and the assignments that drove its current level. Select a skill to see:

A short explanation of the student's performance
A question breakdown by difficulty and Bloom's taxonomy level
Data confidence and when the skill was last practiced
Recommended next steps

How mastery levels are calculated

Each skill gets one of six mastery levels, based on two things:

Performance: the student's scores on questions tagged to the skill.
Question complexity: the average difficulty and Bloom's taxonomy level of those questions.

A standard's level is the median of its skills' levels. A skill with no questions in the student's graded history is Not introduced.

Level	What it means	Recommended action
Mastered	High performance on higher-complexity questions	Assign an activity or lesson that includes enrichment beyond the skill or standard
Secure	High performance on lower-complexity questions	Assign higher-difficulty or higher-Bloom questions to determine whether the student has mastered it
Ready to grow	Moderate performance on higher-complexity questions	Continue at the current complexity while targeting specific errors
Developing	Moderate performance on lower-complexity questions	Strengthen weaker areas, then increase complexity
Emerging	Low performance on higher-complexity questions	Check prerequisite understanding with lower-complexity questions before choosing remediation
Struggling	Low performance on lower-complexity questions	Provide foundational support at the Remember or Understand level, then reassess

You can see these definitions anytime by selecting How bands are calculated under the progress chart.

Personalized resources and support tiers

See whether personalized resources are helping

Use Filter by resource and select Personalized to see mastery from the resources personalized for that student. A banner shows which resources are included; select Clear Filter to return to all data. In a standard's details, personalized assignments are marked Personalized.

Support tiers

Tiered Support Distribution shows the student's support tier in the selected class, based on their overall progress:

Tier 1, Universal: progressing with core classroom instruction
Tier 2, Targeted: needs small-group practice in specific skill areas
Tier 3, Intensive: needs individualized intervention and close monitoring

Select the explanation button to see why the student is in that tier. A student can be in a different tier in each class.

Support tiers are separate from mastery levels. A mastery level describes one skill or standard; a support tier describes the student's overall progress in a class.

Engagement Insights

The Engagement tab shows how a student is engaging with their learning in Kira. It describes what the student did; it doesn't score or rate the student.

Metrics

Each metric is compared with the previous period of the same length.

Metric	What it shows	Good to know
Time on Platform	Total time the student spent in Kira	Includes activity across all classes and Kira surfaces
Average Session	Typical session length, with the number of sessions	Includes activity across all classes and Kira surfaces
Active Days	Share of days the student was active	Includes activity across all classes and Kira surfaces
Assignment Completion	Share of assignments due in this class that were submitted	Excused work, archived work, and assignments for specific students are not yet excluded

Platform activity

Time on platform: a day-by-day chart compared with the previous period.
Typical week: average time per weekday compared with the previous period.

AI support

See how the student uses the AI Tutor: conversations started, conversations per week, and average length. Select View all conversations to read them.

Submission behavior

Completion and on-time rates for assignments due in this class, shown side by side.

Recent activity

A timeline of the student's recent activity, including AI Tutor conversations. Filter by All or Flagged. Flags are set by the system; you can't add or clear them.

Uncover Insights and Ask Kira

Uncover Insights

Select Uncover Insights for a summary of what has changed for the student in the selected time window, with recommended actions. It appears on the Academic tab, the Engagement tab, and in Submission behavior, and it's generated on-demand.

Each recommended action links to creating or assigning a resource for the student.

Ask Kira

Select Ask Kira in the student's profile to ask questions about that student in your own words. Kira draws on the student's academic and engagement data to answer, and can suggest next steps.

Here are some prompts you can use to get started:

1. Quick overview	"What parts of [Student]'s engagement might be connected to their scores?" "What's the single most useful thing I should know about [Student] right now, using both their scores and their engagement?"
2. Same time period in both tabs	"Compare [Student]'s engagement and mastery from [start date] to [end date]." "How has [Student]'s engagement changed since last month, and did any skills move up or slip over the same period?"
3. Looking at one skill	"Why is [Student] struggling with [skill]? Show me the questions behind it and anything they asked the AI Tutor while working on it." "Which of [Student]'s skills rest on only a few questions, and do they need more practice or just more evidence?" "Which skills dropped a band, and was [Student] less active when that happened?"
4. Looking at one assignment	"For [assignment], how did [Student] score, how long did they spend on it, and did they use the AI Tutor?" "Which assigned work hasn't [Student] started, and which skills does that work cover?"
5. Help-seeking and chat	"What has [Student] been asking the AI Tutor, and does it match the skills they're struggling with?" "Does [Student] use the AI Tutor more on the skills where they score well or the ones where they struggle?"
6. Work habits	"How does [Student]'s average session length compare with how they're scoring? Are they getting enough uninterrupted time on the work?" "How does [Student]'s engagement compare with the class average?"
7. Planning next steps	"Are the personalized resources I've assigned to [Student] helping? Compare their scores before and after." "Create a short personalized lesson for [Student] that fits how they usually engage with the platform."

Tips for better answers

Give dates when you can. "Since Sept 1" works better than "lately."
Name a skill or assignment. Narrow questions get more specific answers than broad ones.
Ask "why" questions about a specific skill. That's when I pull in the AI Tutor conversations, which show where the student got stuck.

What admins see

Student Atlas gives teachers what they need to support each student, from progress and engagement to next steps. That same data rolls up into Custom Analytics, so you see progress across classrooms and schools, down to each student.

Academic tab: the same views teachers see, including a view across classes. Recommended actions are read-only if you don't have permission to create or assign resources.
Engagement tab: open it from the organization portal. Reading AI Tutor conversations will be available to admins in a later update.
Custom Analytics: student profile data rolls up into Custom Analytics, so you can see progress across classrooms and schools, down to each student.

Setting Accommodations for the Student

One other action you can take in Student Atlas is to turn on a student's accommodations, which will apply those accommodations automatically everywhere they're relevant across the Kira platform

FAQ

Why is a student's profile empty or sparse? Student Atlas needs graded work on questions tagged with standards and difficulty levels. New classes start with little data, and longer time windows fill in as work is graded. A standard with no graded work shows as Not introduced, not as failing.

Why did a student's mastery level change after this update? Mastery levels now account for how complex the questions were, not just the student's scores. For example, Secure now means high performance on lower-complexity questions, so some students may show a different level than before.

Are mastery levels the same as support tiers? No. Mastery levels describe one skill or standard. Support tiers describe a student's overall progress in a class.

Why does Time on Platform seem high for my class? Time on Platform, Average Session, and Active Days include the student's activity across all their classes and Kira surfaces, not just yours.

Why is Assignment Completion lower than I expected? Excused work, archived work, and assignments for specific students are not yet excluded from this metric.

Why don't I see a student's most recent activity? Engagement data can be up to two hours behind.

Did Class Atlas change too? Class Atlas uses the same six mastery levels, the same time window, and updated distribution and support tier views. The progress chart and the Standards / Skills toggle are only in the student profile.

Student Atlas and Progress Data