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Student Success Dashboard

Written by Michael Stephenson
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Overview

The Student Success dashboard provides a comprehensive view of student enrollment in courses, course performance, and key academic metrics. Use this dashboard to monitor enrollment trends across terms, evaluate course-level performance statistics, and identify areas where students may need additional support. This dashboard is ideal for academic affairs, advising, and student success teams seeking data-driven insights into how students are engaging with their coursework.

Accessing the Dashboard

The Student Success dashboard can be found via the Insights sub-menu. The Insights module can be accessed from the Data + Automations dropdown in the top navigation.


Dashboard Features

The Student Success dashboard provides enrollment metrics, student performance data, and course-level analytics across two tabs. Explore student enrollment trends by term and dimension, review course statistics, and analyze enrollment patterns over time.

Global Controls

The Student Success dashboard can be filtered and controlled in several ways. Find the global controls at the top of each tab. These global controls affect each tab. Filters applied on one tab will carry over to the others. Select one or many from the control categories.

  • From (date)

  • To (date)

  • Campus

  • Subject

  • Course Title

  • Territory

  • Student Type

  • Active Major (Student)

  • Active Term

  • Instructor

  • Type

  • Instruction Type

  • Term (Course Section)


Tabs

The Student Success Dashboard is organized by two tabs. The Students tab focuses on student-centric enrollment and academic performance data. The Courses tab focuses on course-centric enrollment, capacity, and performance data.

Students Tab

Visualization Sections:

Students

The Students section is located at the top of the page. It provides key enrollment metrics and charts to explore enrollment trends across terms and student dimensions.

Features

  • Count of students enrolled this term

  • Students enrolled in courses

  • Enrollment records per student

  • Courses per student enrolled in courses

  • Cumulative Enrollments by Term

    • A horizontal bar chart showing the total number of enrollments for each term

  • Percentage of Enrollments by Student Dimension

    • A horizontal stacked bar chart showing the percentage breakdown of enrollments by the selected Student Dimension, organized by term and colored by student type. The title of this chart changes dynamically based on the selected Student Dimension.

Unique Controls

  • Student Dimension: Select the student dimension to group the Percentage of Enrollments chart by. Options are Major, Student Type, and Territory.

  • Comparison Terms: Filter the charts by specific comparison terms.

Student Performance

The Student Performance section is located at the bottom of the Students tab. It provides course-level statistics from the student perspective.

Features

  • Course Statistics by Course: A table displaying statistics for each course including Courses Per Student, Terms Per Student, Enrollments Per Student, Enrollment per Course Section, Average Absences, Average Grade (Current), and Average Grade (Final).

Courses Tab

The Courses tab displays enrollment metrics from the course perspective, including enrollment breakdowns by subject, top and bottom performing courses and sections, course-level statistics, and enrollment trends over time.

Visualization Sections:

Courses

The Courses section is located at the top of the tab. It provides key course enrollment metrics, a subject-level enrollment breakdown, and insight cards highlighting top and bottom performing courses and sections.

Features

  • Count of students enrolled

  • Total course enrollments

  • Total courses with enrollments

  • Student enrollment per course section

  • Enrollment by Subject:

    • Pie chart showing the distribution of enrollments across subjects.

  • Top 3 Courses for Enrollment

    • Card that displays enrollment counts

  • Top 3 Sections for Enrollment

    • Card that displays enrollment counts

  • Bottom 3 Sections for Enrollment

    • Card that displays enrollment counts

Course Performance

The Course Performance section is located at the bottom of the Courses tab. It provides course-level statistics and an enrollment trend over time.

Features

  • Course Statistics

    • A table by Course Dimension, displays statistics for the selected dimension including Enrollment, Max Enrollment, Capacity, Absences, Average Absences, Average Grade (Current), and Average Grade (Final). The title of this table changes dynamically based on the selected Course Dimension.

  • Enrollment Over Time

    • A line chart showing two metrics—Students Enrolled and Course Enrollments—plotted over Enrollment Date.

Unique Controls

  • Course Dimension: Select the dimension to group the Course Statistics table by. Options are Course Section, Course Title, and Instructor.


Metric Glossary

Metric

Definition

Students enrolled/Enrollments

Student records with enrollment milestone for selected term.

Students enrolled in courses

Distinct students enrolled in a course.

Enrollments per student

Course enrollments / Students enrolled in courses

Courses per student

Number of courses with enrollments / number of students in courses

Enrollments per course section

Enrollment records for a course / Number of sections with enrollments

Average Absences

Average number of absences per course

Average Grade

Average numerical grade per course

Course Enrollments

Number of enrollment records for given parameter

Courses with Enrollments

Number of courses with at least one enrollment

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Troubleshooting & FAQ

  • Why is there no data?

    There are a variety of reasons an Insights report is blank. Try the following quick fixes:

    • Reset the report. Visualizations may be filtering the report. Check the date controls. If the date is too far in the past, it may pre-date your activity in Element451.

    • Check what fields are being used.

    • If data is still missing, there may be issues with your data in Element. Check out this guide for data cleanup.

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