WSU Data Literacy Training
The goal of this site is to help you better understand where to go for different types of data and reports, thus giving you access to the most current data to improve data-driven decision making. It should empower you to become a more informed data citizen.
Here you will find WSU data training material from past webinars, videos, how-to guides, and WSU Bridge training courses for more in-depth knowledge around WSU data.
Training Series
The following are pre-recorded videos and PDFs that cover specific dashboards for specific times in the student life cycle. Future data training series, videos, and webinars will be posted here!
- Overview of the Weekly Enrollment dashboard (Webinar)
The following data training webinar covered an in-depth training of the entire Weekly Enrollment dashboard. This webinar covers open enrollment reporting, point-in-time comparisons, measures of student headcounts, Full-time Equivalencies (FTE), Student Credit Hours (SCH), and semester to semester persitence.
The following PDF demonstrates a brief summary of the Weekly Enrollment dashboard
and how to interpret different kinds of information within that dashboard:
The following video is an overview of the Weekly Enrollment Dashboard
for general knowledge and training:
The following video shows an in-depth look of the Weekly Enrollment Dashboard
for academic departments:
The following PDF is the presentation of the general training for future reference:
Link to the WSU Report Gallery
- Open Registration Key Processes (Webinar)
The following data training series took place as a webinar to cover sections of the Weekly Enrollment dashboard and sections of the Admissions & Monitoring dashboard. This webinar helps to evaluate potential enrollment issues for colleges & departments for majors and courses, understanding underlying enrollment trends, and helps to troubleshoot if your college or department needs to open more course sections.
Topics covered:
Summary of Weekly Enrollment trends
Brief overview of Admissions & Enrollment Monitoring
- Graduation Rate Training (Webinar)
The following data training series took place as a webinar to cover key definitions, the Graduation Outcomes dashboard, sections of the Student Persistence & Success dashboard and sections of the Program Review Undergraduate dashboard. This webinar helps to evaluate outcome measures and graduation trends within the college & department level, and provides next steps on how to reach out to students with 90+ credit hour completion. The graduatuion and outcomes measures discussed in this webinar are aligned to the WSU Strategic Plan.
Topics covered:
Review of Graduation & Outcome measures
Brief overview of 90+ credit completion measures
- How to count BIS Concentrations in your program
Finding the Count BIS Concentrations in your program:
The following PDF explains how to gain access to Argos and use it to find a count of Bachelors of Integrated Studies concentrations for you specific programs.
Training Material:
How to use the WSU Report Gallery Dashboards
The following information demonstrates key elements within each WSU dashboards that are published within the WSU Report Gallery app located within the eWeber portal. More videos and how-to-guides will be posted soon!
- Admissions & Enrollment Monitoring dashboard
Using the Admissions & Enrollment Monitoring dashboard:
This dashboard displays information about applicants to WSU, their enrollment status, and overall course enrollment tracking information. The dashboard is designed to be used primarily during open enrollment or open recruitment periods, and updates daily to reflect changes in counts.
Training Material:
- Course DFWI Grade Rates dashboard
Using the Course DFWI Grade Rates dashboard:
This dashboard displays information about the percentage of students in all WSU classes that receive a grade lower than a C- over time. The count used in the calculation of passing grades excludes certain types of grades such as 'AU' (Audit) or 'NG' (Not Gradable), but most other grades are included.
Data are included on the following course characteristics:
• DFWI grade rates aggregated by course, and by course and ethnicity
• Filter options for groupings such as course number, subject code or college
• Further filtering by characteristics such as delivery method, general education classification, or course level
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- Dual Enrollment Information dashboard
Using the Dual Enrollment Information dashboard:
This dashboard displays data related to concurrent enrollment, early college & NUAMES.
Data are included on the following items:
- Distinct headcount & total enrollments
- Matriculation rate, matriculation by course subject complete & matriculation by student degree
- Course enrollments
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- Enrollment Executive Summary dashboard
Using the Enrollment Executive Summary dashboard:
This dashboard summarizes WSU's official 3rd week census extracts for FTE/SCH enrollment, overall student headcount, and degree-seeking student counts for campus. This dashboard also includes WSU's Academic Year SCH/FTE instruction totals. This dashboard is optimized to provide institutional-level summaries on key metrics that are in sync with published USHE and IPEDS data.
Data are included on the following items:
• SCH & FTE (Student Credit Hours & Full-time Equivalent)
• Student headcounts & demographics
• Data by Term or Semester and Academic Year
Training Material:
- Starfish dashboard
Using the 'Starfish' dashboard:
This dashboard displays metrics around Starfish’s usage and impact on campus specifically regarding tracking items, appointments, course outcomes, and persistence.
Data are included on the following items:
• Tracking Item and Appointment
• Referral, Flag, Kudo, or To Do
• Academic Performance & Persistence
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- Student Persistence & Success dashboard
Using the 'Student Persistence & Success' dashboard:
The Student Persistence & Success Dashboard provides users additional flexibility in reporting out student retention, persistence, graduation, and other measures of student success for WSU's historic data.
Data are included on the following items:
• Retention & Graduation Rates
• Term to Term Persistence
• Other Student Success Metrics
Training Material:
- Ten Year Trends Enrollmet FTE Graduation & Majors dashboard
Using the Ten-Year Trends dashboard:
This report provides long term trends for enrollment and graduations for WSU Overall, Colleges and Departments. This dashboard has been optimized for the presentation of data for colleges and departments and is designed to be in sync with the official results reported to USHE and IPEDS.
Data are included on the following items:
• SCH & FTE (Student Credit Hours & Full-time Equivalent)
• Major trending & demographics
• Degrees earned
• Course detail trending
Training Material:
WSU Bridge Course
The following WSU Bridge courses cover all the training videos for the listed dashboards below and provides a comprehensive training, instead of the short videos lists above for these specific dashboards. The Bridge courses allow for the assessment of learning, with pre- & post-tests, short quizzes, and follow-up items to help gain a greater understanding of key processes in enrollment, trends, student persistence, and success!
Data Literacy Training
The following are excellent videos presented by Arizona State University and Crash Course, Study Hall. These are a series of tailored YouTube videos aimed at helping everyone become more data literate and good data citizens. Data literacy is important because it gives us the ability to read, write, and communicate in context, allowing us to better analyze and interpret different types of data. Data literacy helps us develop actionable insights for data-driven decision making.
Need additional training around WSU data?
For additional training or data requests, please email Daniel Jensen: danieljensen3@weber.edu or data@weber.edu
