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Getting Started
The PDP offers institutions comprehensive data, interactive dashboards, and analysis-ready files to visualize outcomes and identify areas for improvement, supporting better analysis and communication of student success. Explore our help articles to learn more and get started with using the PDP effectively.
Starting mid-November, PDP will be transitioning to a new and improved data submission process.
Users will need to submit any course, cohort, and financial aid files through our new Data Provider Intake Platform. Note: the file formats for your course, cohort, and financial aid files ARE NOT changing. Only the steps to submit your files are changing.
Download the quick start user guide for the new submission process.
When the new process is released, any files that have not been certified or that have data quality checks to acknowledge or correct, will be automatically rejected, and users will need to resubmit those files in the new interface. Because of that, we recommend that you do not submit any files on or after November 10 until the new interface has been released.
Please be on the lookout for communication and outreach from the PDP team if your files need to be resubmitted.
Additional content and resources regarding the new data submission process will be updated when the new process is available.
ARTICLES
New Users & Logging In
About the Secure Portal
Learn how to use our Secure Portal to manage users, submissions, and third party authorizations.
Managing PDP User Access Tutorial
Learn the required steps that will allow a user administrator to login to the Clearinghouse portal and access the user administration pages where they can allow other users at their organization to access and view the PDP Tableau reports.
PDP Data-Driven Insights
Gain an overview of the National Student Clearinghouse’s Postsecondary Data Partnership and learn the benefits of the PDP.
SHEEO PDP Toolkit
This toolkit supports current Postsecondary Data Partnership institutions with an overview of the PDP, tips on how to get started, and how to use and submit data.
PDP Institutional Self Assessment Tool
This assessment is an ideal starting point for any institution looking to join the PDP.
Other PDP Services
Opting In or Out of the Student Insights Dashboard
Learn about the Student Insights Dashboard and how to opt in or out.
PDP Learning
PDP Tutorials
The Clearinghouse Academy is a training hub for all National Student Clearinghouse products.
CCA’s Guidebook & Tools for Data Management & the PDP
This guidebook and tools help faculty, staff, college leadership, and policymakers understand and use measurement systems — and specifically use data to improve completion rates, close institutional performance gaps, and facilitate economic mobility for historically excluded students.
Postsecondary Data Partnership (PDP) Courses
Achieving the Dream’s Postsecondary Data Partnership (PDP) Courses are designed for users of PDP dashboards at two- and four-year institutions. Courses are delivered virtually and are free of charge.
Sharing Data
Sharing Data with Third Parties
Learn to use the Secure Portal to grant authorizations to third parties so they can view dashboards (excluding the Financial Aid dashboard), view the Financial Aid dashboard, and/or receive de-identified cohort and course analysis-ready files.