Determining course capacity for college administrators can be a difficult task. As administrators, we want to ensure that we have an adequate offering for our students, however we also must ensure that we are efficiently utilizing our resources and minimize excess capacity for courses. This can be a difficult balancing act for administrators. Having the [...]

This has undoubtedly been an interesting year for me, brimming with reasons to look back and take stock of where things are at. In the past year, I’ve spent time all over the world; from the Far East to Europe, the Middle East, and even Mexico, working with iDashboards customers and partners has truly been [...]

Retention rates have become a key focus of Higher Education administrators over the past several years. With a focus on not only recruiting new students but on retaining existing students these admins will need access to key information. This information will have to be developed into reports from data that comes from each institutions’ Student [...]

Working with colleges and universities throughout the country has allowed me to recognize several common themes as to how institutions typically wish to roll out their dashboards.  Often times, the dashboard initiative is driven by a need to provide the President’s Cabinet or Board of Trustees with confidential dashboards. These are often strategic plan, enrollment, [...]

One of the most critical set of metrics for Higher Education organizations is related to applicant yield rates. In this blog I will discuss, and illustrate, an example of how this set of metrics can be visualized, beginning with the first point of contact point a student has with a university, an inquiry from a [...]

Trending data can be a great way to predict and analyze the performance of any metric. There are many ways to represent data with a chart. However, the best chart type to display trending values is the line chart. Line charts are often seen as financial charts that are only useful to display upward and [...]

Working within the education vertical at iDashboards, you see common interests for administrators. Whether it’s a K-12 school district Superintendent or a VP of Academic Affairs at a 20,000 student university, the need is consistent. How can we improve student success? A common example I hear is in higher education. Administrators want to know who [...]

Some of iDashboards Higher Education customers have taken advantage of their web-based platform to keep employees informed across various campuses. One customer is using iDashboards to communicate with all of their campuses (nearly 100). The old way of having IT develop reports in Excel was proving to be a waste of time every week. The [...]

Could you give a figure on the spot? What about the persistence rates? How are you trending? These are some questions that, if you do not know the answer, should raise a red flag. Universities have typically relied on the institutional research department to report back to them on their admission rate. How long does [...]

Most educational institutions have had some sort of visual reporting tool in use for about the last 10 years. Different departments have relied on these visual reports to consolidate and view their data. Institutions that had the foresight to develop a tool internally were especially ahead of the curve. Do you want the good news [...]