Free MCAS & ACCESS Dashboards

DESE has partnered with Open Architects to provide free support for developing your district goals. We have developed powerful, interactive dashboards to provide district-, school-, and student-level insights for your MCAS & ACCESS data.

Free MCAS & ACCESS Dashboards

MCAS & ACCESS Dashboards

Our dashboards are built to answer your most common assessment questions.

  • Ellipse Which student groups had the highest levels of progress
  • Ellipse Which MCAS items where the most challenging for our students
  • Ellipse How did our results compare to the similar schools within the state?
  • Ellipse How do our results compare to previous years?
  • Ellipse Where are our areas of improvement?
MCAS Explorer

MCAS Explorer

Find out how students performed over time, which questions students most struggled with, and more.

MCAS Explorer
ACCESS Explorer
ACCESS Explorer

ACCESS Explorer

Our new ACCESS Explorer tool makes it easy to compare your results to previous years and drill down to the student level.

ACCESS Explorer
Partner portal

Partner portal

Access your tools through our Partner Portal that provides a secure dashboard experience for users of all kinds that updates in real time using your existing data.

Partner portal

Features

Easy implementation
Easy implementation

We’ve designed our dashboards to be simple and easy-to-use. We believe you shouldn’t need advanced training to use our dashboards.

Secure portal
Secure portal

Your dashboards sit behind a secure portal with custom permissions for district and school staff.

Filter, slice, and select
Filter, slice, and select

Go deeper into your data by applying demographic filters, slicing by school, and selecting date ranges.

Who we are

Open Architects (OA) provides custom-built visualization tools to give public service leaders the information they need to make data-informed decisions. Our tools seamlessly collect, combine, analyze, and present data from disparate sources. Staffed by former practitioners, OA creates the tools we wish we had when we worked in public service roles.

Who we are

Next steps

Get started

Fill out our contact form and we will reach out to you to schedule a needs assessment call where we can learn more about your organization and how we can help.

Get started step one

Fill out our contact form

Get started step two

We schedule a call with your team to discuss your data needs

Get started step three

We decide how best we can help and start our partnership