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title: "Insights"
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canonical: "help.cirrusassessment.com/insights"
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> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.cirrusassessment.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Insights

Read built-in dashboards covering platform usage, assessment psychometrics, and candidate participation. Use this article to understand the Insights area in Reports and what each graph shows.

## Where to find Insights

Open **Reports > Insights**. Depending on your subscription tier, the Insights area contains up to three tabs:

- **Overview** for platform usage and headline metrics.
- **Psychometrics** for assessment-quality statistics.
- **Candidates** for candidate participation and attempt patterns.

## Overview tab

The Overview tab shows headline numbers and trends across your platform.

Available graphs and metrics:

- Total candidates
- Total questions
- Total assessments
- Average total score
- Time utilisation
- Pass rate

![Overview tab in Insights showing platform-level metrics](https://cdn.document360.io/cdfc20c8-6721-4154-b0a1-9f49f139d107/Images/Documentation/Screenshot%202026-05-21%20at%2012.02.10%E2%80%AFPM.png)

## Psychometrics tab

The Psychometrics tab focuses on the statistical quality of your assessments.

Available graphs and metrics:

- P value versus RIT (item-test correlation)
- P value versus RIR (item-rest correlation)
- P value versus pass rate

![Psychometrics tab showing P versus RIT, RIR, and pass-rate plots](https://cdn.document360.io/cdfc20c8-6721-4154-b0a1-9f49f139d107/Images/Documentation/Screenshot%202026-05-21%20at%2012.03.18%E2%80%AFPM.png)

For background on the metrics themselves, see [Statistics: RIT and RIR values](/docs/statistics-rit-and-rir-values).

## Candidates tab

The Candidates tab focuses on participation and attempt patterns.

Available graphs and metrics:

- First attempt versus resit
- Average score by attempt
- Top participants by total attempts

![Candidates tab showing first-attempt versus resit and average-score breakdowns](https://cdn.document360.io/cdfc20c8-6721-4154-b0a1-9f49f139d107/Images/Documentation/Screenshot%202026-05-21%20at%2012.15.43%E2%80%AFPM.png)

## Filters

All Insights tabs share the same filter set:

- Date range
- Assessment
- Pass or fail status
- Exclude low-volume assessments
- Time band

Filters apply to every graph on the active tab.

## What Insights does and does not do

Insights are designed and maintained by Cirrus. They cover the metrics most customers ask for and require no setup.

- Available directly within Cirrus on supported subscription tiers.
- No external tooling required.
- Preconfigured by Cirrus, not user-editable.
- Standard reporting, not deep custom analytics.

If you need a metric or breakdown that Insights does not show, you have two options:

- Request a **custom Insights dashboard**. Cirrus can build dashboards tailored to your organisation and add them to the Insights area. Scope and complexity are agreed with the Cirrus team.
- Connect a BI tool to the [Data](/docs/data-1) component and build the report yourself.

## Related articles

- [Data](/docs/data-1) for connecting external BI tools to a Cirrus dataset.
- [Statistics: RIT and RIR values](/docs/statistics-rit-and-rir-values) for the maths behind the Psychometrics tab.
- [Assessment performance](/docs/assessment-performance) for per-assessment analytics.