Reports and Analytics News
February 24, 2020
RPG Release: Time Schedule Enrollment by Day and Time Visualization in BI Portal
The Report Prioritization Group released a new visualization to the BI Portal: Time Schedule Enrollment by Day and Time. This tool enables planning by displaying a heat map of current enrollment counts broken down by day and time in order to demonstrate times of high and low campus activity. The analysis tool divides the academic day into 30 minute increments. Student enrollments are counted during a 30 minute period if a course is scheduled during any part of a period. How to Use this Visualization: There are two primary ways to use this analysis tool: Planning an Event: A program...
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February 4, 2020
UW Profiles Release: Student Academic Performance Dashboards Updates
In collaboration with the Office of Planning and Budgeting (OPB), we updated the following three dashboards with new features: Undergraduate Retention and Graduation Rates Undergraduate Graduation Patterns and Time to Degree Undergraduate Student Persistence and Graduation by Year of Study Undergraduate Retention and Graduation Rates Table View: Cohort Retention and Graduation Rates by Cohort Year was improved with the following: Users can select from Primary and Secondary breakdowns. Both breakdowns now include a Military Affiliation dimension. Color highlighting was added to show increasing and decreasing rates from previous cohort years. A “Cohort Year” multi-select filter was added. The “Variation” visualization...
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January 16, 2020
RPG Release: New Current Student Information Report in BI Portal
The Report Prioritization Group released a new report to the BI Portal, Current Student Information. This report consolidates two previous reports: Current Student Information by Major and Current Student Information by Minor. Remember to update your bookmarks to point to the new report location. Report Summary: This report displays a population of students that have enrolled in courses during the current quarter based on the selected major or minor. This report has a couple of key features: Consolidation: You no longer have to access two separate reports to get information on current students by major and minor. The report now...
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January 10, 2020
RPG Release: New Filters and Fields on Class List Report
Based on user feedback, the Report Prioritization Group just released several updates to the report Class List By Curriculum Course Section. Run the report to see for yourself! Change Summary: Based on user requests, we made several updates to functionality, including: Selected Qtr Class column: First, some context. When you select "Class" from the Columns to Display dropdown, two Class columns display. "Current Class" is the student's class level for the current quarter "Selected Qtr Class" is the student's class level during the Quarter selected in the "Quarter" filter. Before the update, when you ran the report for future quarters,...
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January 3, 2020
New Report: General Ledger Transactions by Month
Enterprise Reporting and Analytics has partnered with the DATAgroup in Financial Management to release a new report to the BI Portal: General Ledger Transactions by Month. Report Summary: This report gives users who are responsible for auditing and reconciling GLs a way to see individual transaction data for a specific GL Account/Fund Code combination by accounting month. The report sources data from the Enterprise Data Warehouse and refreshes nightly. What has Changed? If you previously ran this report on the Financial Management site, you might be wondering, “what has changed?” Nothing has changed with the report, only where you go...
December 26, 2019
Tableau Server Upgraded to Version 2019.4
We have completed the upgrade of the UW Tableau Public, Transitional, and Production servers to Version 2019.4.0. You can read about the new features in the latest version here: Tableau 2019.4 What You Need to Know: Latest Version: If you're ever curious what is the latest server version, you can see for yourself. Follow the steps on our Tableau FAQ Ask Data: If you were previously using Ask Data for your data source, you will need to explicitly enable it as the server default is to have Ask Data disabled. The process to enable is as follows: Navigate to your...
December 24, 2019
RPG Release: New Filters and Fields on Study Abroad Report
In July, we added the Study Abroad Students by Unit Report to the BI Portal. Following that release, we received feedback from many users on how to make the report better. Based on this user feedback, the Report Prioritization Group just released several updates to the report. Run the report to see for yourself: Study Abroad Students by Unit Report. Change Summary: Based on user requests, we added several new filters to the Study Abroad report. Quarter Filter: The filter allows you to narrow down to specific UW Quarters of interest. Since some study abroad programs span multiple quarters, the...
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December 3, 2019
UW Profiles Release: Updates to Size of Academic Units and Type of Students Served
Based on user feedback, the UW Profiles team released updates to the Size of Academic Units and Type of Student Served dashboard. Change Summary: Undergraduate Major Status Filter: A new “Undergraduate Major Status” filter was added to allow users to filter Undergraduate students by Declared Major and Pre-Major. This filter allows you to answer new questions like: “how many students have a declared major in our college?” New features: Bars representing Baccalaureate data in the College and Department bar charts are separated into sections for Pre-Declared and Declared Major. Hovering these sections will display a tool tip with data for...
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December 2, 2019
Archiving Report: 2013 Base Year Paid FTE Report
On November 19, 2019, the ERA Team archived the 2013 Base Year Paid FTE Report due to low usage and outdated information. Archiving: What does that mean? Archiving simply means that we removed this report from the BI Portal, and it will no longer be accessible. The purpose of archiving is to allow our team to reduce the volume of redundant or unnecessary tools that we support, and to focus on building new higher value solutions for you! Replacement: Where can I get this info after the report is archived? You can still access this information by connecting to Research...
November 18, 2019
RPG Release: New Fields Added to Time Schedule Information Report
We recently shared that you can now access Jointly-listed course information in the Time Schedule Report. Based on user feedback, the Report Prioritization Group just released several more updates to the BI Portal report, Time Schedule Information. Change Summary: Based on user requests, we added several new columns to the Time Schedule report. You can find these fields in the Columns to Display dropdown: Instructor Netid Displays the UW Netid for the instructor(s) associated with this course. Census Major Enrollment Displays total enrollments of major students in a course on census day of the quarter. Census Non-Major Enrollment Displays total...
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