Today's educators are tasked with managing a plethora of tasks. They must balance lesson planning, designing and grading assessments, creating and implementing student interventions, and analyzing data—not to mention a slew of administrative tasks—all while striving to provide meaningful student engagement.
Panorama Solara, a purpose-built AI designed specifically for K-12 educators, helps make teaching and student support easier with secure tools that are customizable to your district's goals and practices.
Solara interacts with existing Panorama data sources and aligns with your unique educational practices, helping increase educator efficiency throughout the day and supporting each student's unique path to success. By streamlining tasks—from creating lesson plans to drafting family communications to differentiating instruction—Solara allows educators to dedicate even more time to student engagement and personalizing learning experiences.
How Panorama Solara Empowers Educators
Enhanced Teaching with AI Built for K-12
Built on K-12 research and best practices, Solara includes a library of ready-made AI-powered tools (along with an interactive chat feature) that are designed specifically for educators and administrators, ensuring relevant, high-quality results that align with school and district priorities.
With Solara, educators can quickly create lesson plans, generate rubrics, draft attendance plans, write recommendation letters, and much more.
Create Personalized Student Supports
Solara connects securely with your district’s data and documents to provide actionable insights tailored to individual student needs. Some examples of what educators can do:
- Draft targeted attendance outreach letters, IEP accommodations, and behavior support strategies.
- Plan evidence-based strategies to better support students academically and emotionally.
Safe, Private AI That You Can Trust
Panorama Solara prioritizes data security and privacy, ensuring your district’s information is never used to train AI models. Solara is:
- SOC 2, FERPA, COPPA compliant, and verified for security with Student Privacy Pledge, ensuring the highest standards of student data protection and privacy safeguards.
- Hosted in Panorama’s secure environment.
- Designed with role-based access controls, so teachers only see relevant student data and district leaders gain broader insights.
AI That Works How Your District Does
Panorama Solara supports to your district’s specific needs and instructional frameworks. With customizable AI tools, educators can:
- Use district created AI tools for lesson planning, student support, and communication.
- Customize prompts and AI-generated content to fit their teaching style.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
How does Panorama Solara protect student privacy?
Panorama Solara is designed with security and privacy at its core. Our platform upholds best-in-class privacy and security standards and runs on a secure infrastructure, ensuring that all data stays within the Panorama ecosystem. No data or personally identifiable information (PII) is ever used to train models.
Panorama is verified to comply with:
- SOC 2 Type 2 standards
- FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act)
- COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act)
- Student Privacy Pledge signatory
Additionally, role-based access ensures that:
- Teachers can only view data for their own students.
- School and district leaders have broader access for reporting and resource creation.
Learn more about Panorama’s data security and privacy policies here.
What AI technology powers Solara? Which Large Language Models (LLMs) are used?
Solara is powered by the Claude family of Large Language Models from Anthropic, hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) via Amazon’s Bedrock platform. This ensures:
- A secure and reliable infrastructure for both Solara’s AI capabilities and Panorama’s data storage.
- All data remains within AWS, minimizing the risk of data exposure.
- No third-party involvement, ensuring an extra layer of privacy assurance.
Furthermore, questions and responses processed by Solara are never used to train AI models. We have implemented:
- Comprehensive monitoring and logging systems to ensure transparency.
- Governance and audit mechanisms to uphold strict privacy standards.
These measures prioritize data integrity and trust, making Solara a reliable and secure AI solution for school districts.
How does Solara integrate with other Panorama solutions?
Solara securely integrates with your existing Panorama tools, including Panorama Student Success, Panorama Surveys and Engagement, and Panorama Playbook. By pulling in data from these tools, it provides individualized insights on students’ academic performance, attendance, behavior, and survey results.
How can we customize Solara to meet our district’s specific needs?
Panorama works closely with your team to configure Solara based on the definitions, practices, and approaches in your district. All of the tools and prompts in Solara are customizable. Whether it’s attendance plans or college recommendation letters, educators will be able to rely on Solara to generate high-quality, district-approved content. Global administrators can set district instructions, learn how to do that now.
Can Solara Chat translate text into different languages?
Yes—a wide range of languages are supported by Solara. Learn more here!
What kind of training and support does Panorama provide to implement Solara?
Panorama offers a comprehensive professional development pathway to help school and district teams understand AI, its applications in education, and how to integrate Solara into daily workflows. Sessions may include an introduction to AI concepts, hands-on training on using Solara, and guidance on adapting Solara to fit specific use cases, needs, and goals. Our professional development team, composed of former educators and administrators, will work closely with you to tailor the training progression and provide ongoing support.
With over a decade of experience in K-12 education, Panorama is a trusted partner to 2,000+ districts and 11 state agencies, representing 15 million students. We have a proven track record of managing extensive state and district requirements to help school systems achieve meaningful outcomes.