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Institutional Staff
Institutional users, often within Student Affairs or Student Success teams, are PDP dashboard advocates and users — even if they were not a part of the data submission process.
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Institutions should expect finalized, built dashboards within 30 days of initial data submission.
Institutional users need to contact their User Administrator to create an account, then the user may login to their secure User Portal using their new credentials. If you are unsure who your institution’s User Administrator is, email PDPService@studentclearinghouse.org.
Data within the dashboards will be updated following PDP Effective Dates, 4 times a year. Institutions are encouraged to submit new cohort and course files twice a year.
There are benchmarking dashboards that allow you to compare your institution to up to 5 other PDP institutions. PDP Benchmarking dashboards include: First Year Credit Completion Ratio, First Year Credit Accumulation Rate, Transfer, Outcomes, and Retention & Persistence dashboards.
Yes, the PDP has a different definition of cohort than IPEDS so the cohort count may be different. IPEDS defines a cohort as first-time full-time students, whereas the PDP defines a cohort is any student new-to-the-institution that term.
The dashboards and analysis-ready files show up to 8 historical cohort years.