Back to School, Backed by AI: See What’s New in Panorama for 2025

The start of the school year always moves fast: lesson plans to write, data to review, goals to set. The work hasn’t changed, but the tools have. That’s why we brought teachers, staff, and school & district leaders together for a first look at Panorama’s latest AI-powered platform, designed to lighten the lift and accelerate insight when it matters most.

During our recent summer release webinar, we unveiled Panorama Solara with Class Companion: a secure, student- and educator-facing AI platform built to help teams save time and take action. But that was just the start. We also introduced new tools and updates across the Panorama platform to help educators and leaders start the year strong, from enhanced survey reporting to deeper insights on chronic absenteeism.

If you missed the live session, don’t worry. Here’s your fast-track to the features built for real classroom impact this fall.

Panorama Solara: Powering Your Teams This School Year

AI in education can’t be one-size-fits-all. Every district is different. Every student is unique. That’s why we built Panorama Solara—a customizable, district-managed AI platform designed to support the real work happening in classrooms and central offices every day.

Solara is grounded in your district’s data and priorities, built with privacy and security at its core. It’s here to help educators move faster, work smarter, and stay focused on what matters: students.

Existing Features at a Glance 

Solara Chat

Think of Solara Chat as your district’s secure, education-specific AI assistant. Whether you’re drafting a family email, building an attendance plan, or creating a new lesson, Solara pulls in the right context—safely—to help you get it done faster and better.

Solara Tools

With Solara Tools, educators can tap into a growing library of pre-built, AI-powered applications for MTSS, attendance, special education, and more. Districts can also create and customize tools to reflect local policies, programs, and goals.

Built for K-12. Backed by Experience. 

At Panorama, with over a decade of experience supporting school systems across the country. Today, more than 600 districts use our AI-powered tools, including over 380,000 students supported by Solara. With secure integrations to 20+ SIS platforms and 100+ assessment providers, Solara is deeply rooted in the systems you already trust.

Introducing Solara with Class Companion 

Now live inside Solara, Class Companion brings personalized AI into the classroom, giving every student a guide, and every teacher more time to teach. Solara with Class Companion brings together the best of both worlds: Panorama’s holistic student data + Class Companion’s real-time AI-powered instruction in one seamless, secure platform.

This means educators aren’t just generating assignments or giving feedback. They’re doing it with insight into the full picture of student needs—drawing from academic progress, attendance, behavior, interventions, and student voice data to shape how they teach and support students.

What this means:

• For students: Instant, rubric-aligned feedback that builds confidence and engagement through repeated retries, supporting sustained student growth.

• For teachers: Rapid feedback loops, clearer instructional decisions, and differentiated support based on real student needs

• For principals and coaches: Visibility into classroom practice, student engagement, and early warning signs

• For district leaders: Consistency and high-impact instruction that aligns with district strategic goals and supports improved outcomes

• For everyone: Lesson creation and differentiation anchored in state- and district-approved curriculum policies and high-quality instructional materials (HQIM), ensuring alignment and instructional rigor

Here’s how it works:

• Teachers import or create assignments and generate rubric-aligned, customizable feedback.

• Students revise in real time and receive targeted feedback and support. 

• Class Companion connects with Panorama’s secure student data, ensuring scaffolds, enrichment, and insights are informed by the full picture.

The result? A truly unified platform where data isn’t just something you review after the fact. It’s something that actively shapes instruction, support, and success.

Coming Soon: Solara AI Agents

We’re also rolling out the first use case of Solara AI Agents, which are designed to take on complex, time-consuming workflows while keeping educators fully in control.

First up (and available as beta to customers): an AI Agent for attendance intervention planning, built right into Panorama Student Success. Educators can create research-backed, personalized plans in minutes, helping MTSS teams move faster and with greater clarity.

This is just the beginning. We’ve spent the past 18 months collaborating with more than 700 schools and districts to design and build our AI platform, and we’re excited to continue that partnership as we expand Solara with additional AI Agents and functionality later this year.

More Tools to Start the School Year Strong

In addition to Solara with Class Companion, this release includes a range of new features across the Panorama platform. These features are built to help teams assess, understand, and act on what matters most this fall.

A Clearer Picture of Chronic Absenteeism, From Early Signs to Root Causes

Chronic Absenteeism Dashboard

If you're taking a proactive approach to attendance this year, the Chronic Absenteeism Dashboard in Panorama Student Success gives you the visibility you need from day one. You can monitor your district’s overall chronic absenteeism rate, identify students missing more than 10% of school, and flag those without an active attendance plan.

Longitudinal views show how rates are shifting over time, while disaggregated data helps you understand trends across schools, grade levels, and student groups.

Chronic Absenteeism Insights

To go deeper, Chronic Absenteeism Insights, powered by Panorama AI, helps uncover what’s driving those patterns. By connecting attendance data with Panorama survey responses—like students’ sense of belonging and school climate—you can move from surface-level stats to a more complete understanding of what’s contributing to absenteeism in your district.

These insights aren’t just AI-powered—they’re research-backed. Our research team analyzed complete attendance information for over 7,000 schools and 11 million student records, finding strong correlations between chronic absenteeism and key indicators like school safety, teacher-student relationships, and belonging. We infused those findings directly into the design of Chronic Absenteeism Insights, enabling the platform to surface root causes based on your district’s unique data context. 

Together, the Chronic Absenteeism Dashboard and Insights go beyond identifying problems. They empower teams to take timely, targeted action that makes a real difference.

Dig Deeper into Survey Data With Tools to Take Action

Your survey data is only as powerful as your ability to explore and act on it. That's why we've enhanced our Survey Reporting with a more intuitive way to understand student, staff, and family feedback—so your team can move from insight to action more confidently.

Start by filtering results by school, grade level, or demographic group with new Advanced Filtering tools. Want a quick read on what’s working and where to focus next? Use Survey AI Insights to surface key strengths and areas for growth across every topic.

You’ll also find a newly expanded benchmarks section to help you make sense of your data in context. Compare results with similar districts based on region, size, or urbanicity. Now, your goals can be grounded in something real, not just averages.

When it’s time to dig deeper, Enhanced Question-Level reporting make it easier to explore the specific questions behind each topic and see how different student groups are experiencing school. Whether you’re looking at sense of belonging, self-management, or family engagement, you’ll get a clearer view of what’s changing and where to focus your next steps.

These updates were built in direct response to what we’ve heard from districts: the need for survey data that’s easier to explore, easier to explain, and more relevant to the communities you serve.

Student Access, Built for Clarity and Security

This year, we’re expanding how students engage directly with Panorama, giving them greater visibility into their own progress and goals.

In addition to Class Companion, which provides students with real-time feedback on their assignments, we’re launching a new Panorama Pathways for Students experience. Students will now be able to securely log in to view their graduation progress, CTE pathways, and distinction milestones all in one place.

We’ve heard from district leaders and counselors alike: when students can see where they stand and what’s ahead, they’re more motivated to stay on track. This new update helps make that possible, supporting transparency, shared ownership, and stronger planning conversations between students, families, and staff.

With best-in-class security and authorization built in, students will have access to what they need—safely and intentionally—so they can stay engaged in the journey toward postsecondary success.

New Navigation, Same Powerful Tools

We’ve updated Panorama’s sidebar navigation to create a faster, more consistent experience across all your tools. Whether you're working in Success, Surveys, Panorama Pathways, or Solara, everything is now just a click away.

The new layout helps educators move between tools more easily, collaborate across teams, and adopt new features with confidence, making it easier to scale support without adding complexity.

For districts using multiple Panorama products, this update brings everything into one organized, streamlined experience—so staff can spend less time searching and more time supporting students.

You Support Students. Panorama Supports You.

The work ahead is big, but so is the opportunity. This summer’s release is designed to support your team where it matters most: instruction, engagement, attendance, and planning for what’s next.

From real-time classroom feedback with Solara and Class Companion, to clearer trends in survey and attendance data, to student-facing tools and simplified navigation, every update is built to help educators take meaningful action, faster.

Because when teams can move with purpose and students can see where they’re going, schools start strong and build momentum that lasts.

Couldn’t join us for the live release webinar? Catch the recording here.
Want to see how Solara could work in your district? Let’s connect.