Using the Insights Tab — Beacon by K12 Tutoring Help Center

The Insights tab is your per-student command center — metrics, AI-generated analysis, targeted session recommendations, and full session history, all in one place. This guide walks through every section and how to act on it.

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Before you begin Make sure you are logged in with educator-level permissions. The Insights tab is not visible to students or guardians.

Step 1 — Select a Student

Use the dropdown in the top-right to choose which student to view — type their name to search or scroll to select. All data on the page updates instantly when you switch students. You'll also see a Last Updated timestamp with a Refresh link if you want to pull the latest data mid-session.

Ask Beacon Ask Beacon is a chat panel with full context on the student you're viewing. Ask questions in your own words — it'll help you make sense of the data. Try things like: "What concepts has this student been practicing most?" or "Where do they seem to need extra support?" You can minimize or maximize the panel size as well.

Step 2 — Review the Metrics

The Metrics Insights section shows five numbers that represent the student's complete activity history — this includes sessions assigned by any teacher, as well as sessions the student started independently (Skill Sessions and Homework Help).

Metrics include everything These numbers reflect the student's full history — sessions you assigned, sessions other educators assigned, and sessions the student started on their own. They give you the broadest possible picture of their engagement with Beacon by K12 Tutoring.

Step 3 — Read Strengths & Areas for Improvement

Below the metrics, Beacon by K12 Tutoring generates a detailed Strengths analysis and Areas for Improvement analysis. These are rich, paragraph-length summaries that describe specific concepts the student has demonstrated mastery in and specific gaps where they continue to struggle.

These are based on the student's last 20 sessions Unlike the metrics above, Strengths and Areas for Improvement are generated from the most recent 20 sessions the student worked on — including student-led sessions (Homework Help, Skill Sessions) and sessions assigned by any teacher.

Step 4 — Recommended Next Sessions

Directly below Strengths and Areas for Improvement, Beacon by K12 Tutoring generates a numbered list of Recommended Next Sessions — targeted skill areas with a brief explanation of why each is recommended based on the student's recent performance.

Recommended Next Sessions and Session History

Each recommendation has a View button. Clicking it opens a modal showing pre-selected exercises for that skill. From there you have three options:

Select exercises and Assign this Session — choose up to 3 exercises from the list and assign directly to the student in one click
Manually Configure Session — takes you to the Assignments tab where you can build a fully custom session using those skills as a starting point

Fastest path to a targeted assignment Recommended Next Sessions lets you go from student data to a personalized assignment in seconds — no need to manually search for skills or exercises.

Step 5 — Go Deeper with Ask Beacon

Ask Beacon is a chat panel focused entirely on your student's progress. It has full context on what they've been working on, where they're getting stuck, and how their understanding is changing over time. Ask in your own words — it's designed to help you make sense of the data so you can better support your student. You can minimize the panel to have a full screen view of insights or maximize the panel to an expanded view.

Try things like:

"What concepts has this student been practicing most?"
"Where do they seem to need extra support?"
"Are there patterns in the mistakes they're making?"
"How has their confidence or engagement shifted across sessions?"
"Write a short update for this student's guardian."
"What should I assign next based on their recent sessions?"

Step 6 — Review Session History

The Session History table at the bottom of the Insights page shows past sessions for the selected student. Use the Filter by Educator dropdown to narrow to sessions assigned by a specific educator — including yourself or any other educator who has worked with this student.

Filtering by tutor hides student-led sessions When you select a tutor from the dropdown, only sessions assigned by that person appear. Sessions the student started independently — Skill Sessions and Homework Help — will not show in a filtered view.

Each row in the table shows:

Date Started — when the student opened the session
Assigned By — the teacher or tutor who created the assignment
Status — In Progress, Completed, or Not Started, with a badge showing exercises completed out of total
Time Spent — active time in that specific session
Session Insights — View Insights, Generate Insights, or Not enough activity
Session Links — the assignment name as a clickable link that opens the full Session View

What the Session View Shows

Clicking a session link opens a dedicated page for that individual session. It has three parts:

Session Analysis (top) — a per-session Strengths and Areas for Improvement analysis. A Last Updated timestamp shows when it was last generated, and an Update Analysis button lets you refresh it.
Chat transcript (left) — the complete conversation between the student and Beacon by K12 Tutoring.
Exercise panel (right) — the actual problem the student was working on, with the question text and expected answer visible.

Use Update Analysis after a student finishes If a student was still In Progress when you first viewed the session, come back later and click Update Analysis to regenerate the Strengths and Areas for Improvement with their completed work included.

Session Analysis vs. Strengths & Areas for Improvement The Session Analysis inside a session view covers that one session only. The Strengths and Areas for Improvement section at the top of the Insights page is generated from the student's last 20 sessions they worked on.