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PDP Knowledge Base > Using Dashboards
Using Dashboards
Institutions gain access to several PDP dashboards with key performance metrics, filters, and disaggregation features to view an institution’s data holistically.
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Basic Functionality
Filters and Dimensions
Learn more about general filters, dashboard specific filters, and dimensions.
Key Performance Indicators and Critical Data Elements
Learn how the PDP relies on a combination of elements to populate Key Performance Indicator (KPI) Reports.
Using the Dashboards
Learn more about dashboard metrics, navigating the dashboards, and explore use cases.
Getting to Know the Dashboards
This course provides a high level overview of the PDP dashboards.
Institution-specific Dashboards
First-Year Enrollment Dashboard
Understand your institution’s cohorts of first-year and transfer students by enrollment characteristics, demographics, and various other dimensions.
Financial Aid Dashboard
Provides an understanding of average unmet need amounts, as well as average grant aid, SAI, and cost of attendance, include for different academic years. We are currently working to redevelop the financial aid dashboard.
Subgroup Gap Analysis Dashboard
Learn more about this dashboard which displays a singular view into all the PDP metrics and KPIs (Enrollment, First Year Gateway Course Completion, Credit Accumulation Rate, Credit Completion Rate, Retention & Persistence).
Early Momentum Metrics
Credit Momentum Dashboard
Understand whether students are accumulating and completing the number of credits needed for on-time completion throughout their academic years.
First Year Gateway Course Completion Dashboard
Learn more about this dashboard which shows how many students have successfully completed their required math or English gateway courses in their first academic year.
Outcomes Over Time
Retention and Transfer Dashboard
Assess how well your institution retains students and understand the transfer activity of students who may have left your institution, including if students earned a credential before or after transferring.
Outcomes and Credentials Dashboard
Assess the proportion of your students that are still enrolled or have completed a credential from your institution, transferred to another school, or are currently not enrolled in postsecondary education across different time frames.
Benchmarking Dashboards
Outcomes Benchmarking Dashboard
Learn more about this dashboard which shows completion rates and other outcomes for students by cohort year as compared to benchmarking institutions.
First Year Credit Accumulation Rate Benchmarking Dashboard
Learn more about this dashboard which shows how successful students are at completing enough credits in their first academic year of enrollment to progress toward on-time completion as compared to benchmarking institutions.
First Year Credit Completion Ratio Benchmarking Dashboard
Learn more about this dashboard which shows how successful students are at completing the credits they attempt in their first year of enrollment compared to benchmarking institutions.
Transfer Benchmarking Dashboard
Learn more about this dashboard which shows student transfer-out rates by cohort year at the cohort institution compared to benchmarking institutions.
Retention & Persistence Benchmarking Dashboard
Learn more about this dashboard which shows first-to-second-year retention and persistence rates for students who attended your institution as first-time or transfer-in students by cohort year as compared to benchmarking institutions.