04/23/2021
From March 26th until April 9th, the InformSU team asked our campus partners with PowerBI report access to respond to a brief user survey. Over 200 of you responded – a 28% rate of response. Your responses provide an important barometer of the needs of our campus partners. The InformSU team would like to thank all of you who participated!
We found out that the majority of people with PowerBI access utilize our reports (about 70%). Of these users, over a third use reports frequently (either every day or every week). A larger group (over 40%) look at reports a few times a month, and a small group of users look at reports very infrequently. The majority of respondents, even frequent users, indicated that they would like training on either the PowerBI platform or on specific reports. Addressing this need will be the first in a number of InformSU team actions resulting from your survey responses. We will be placing and updating virtual in-person training sign ups and schedules (training links forthcoming in the next week). We will also highlight our growing library of video report trainings as well as our basic PowerBI introduction materials. We will be following up with those of you who opted into communications with the team on training opportunities. As always, we love to hear from you, so please don’t hesitate to contact the InformSU team (click here).
04/23/2021
The InformSU team will be publishing a new version of the Admission Funnel report around the 10th of May. Additional features include:
All users with access to the Admission Funnel Report will get access to the Preview Version of the new report before it is officially published. Please look out for an email from the InformSU team with a new report link. If you have concerns or questions about these changes, please let us know (click here).
Date | Release Version | Release Notes |
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4/6/2020 | 1.0 | Initial release (with report name Active Students) |
10/5/2020 | 1.1 | New Features • Report name change from Active Students to Active Not Registered to keep consistency with SSRS report New Features • The report availability is extended to the next advanced registration date from census date of current term |
Date | Release Version | Release Notes |
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5/27/2020 | 1.1 | New Features • Updated financial aid tab with three year history and slicer panel • 2020 goal data integrated • Discount calculation update • Bug Fixes • Resolved slicer panel background bookmark • Resolved missing Waitlist Invited Stage • Improved model efficiency • Resynced slicers |
11/20/2020 | 1.2 | New Features • Early Action Status slicer added to YTD Funnel tab • Term Update Flag slicer added to YTD Funnel tab |
06/04/2021 | 1.3 |
New Features Bug Fixes Decommissioned |
Date | Release Version | Release Notes |
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3/30/2021 | 1.0 | Initial Release |
Date | Release Version | Release Notes |
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3/30/2020 | 1.0 | Initial release |
Date | Release Version | Release Notes |
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4/6/2020 | 1.0 | Initial Release |
5/1/2021
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1.1
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New Data Elements Available
• 3rd and 4th year retention rates as well as 5 year graduation rate are added to FTIC Cohorts report page • 3rd and 4th year retention rates are added to Transfer Cohorts report page New Features • Pell Grant Flag slicer is added • High School Type code is replaced by description • 3 new overview pages are available for retention and graduation rates |
Date | Release Version | Release Notes |
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7/1/2019 | 1.0 | Initial Release |
9/27/2019 | 1.1 |
• Encumbrance filter fix to pull FY20 data |
9/27/2019 | 1.2 |
• Data Load Date added to the first report page |
6/22/2020 | 1.3 |
• Prior year encumbrance filter date changed from 7/1 to 7/25 |
2/25/2021 | 1.4 |
• Available Salary & Non-Salary visual replaced with Transactions in Last 5 Post Dates |
Date | Release Version | Release Notes |
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9/17/21 | 1.0 | Initial Release |
Date | Release Version | Release Notes |
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7/11/2019 | 1.0 | Initial Release |
5/8/2020 | 1.1 | New Features • New Full Time Equivalence Trend report page • New Proportion of Full Time Students report page |
5/27/2020 | 1.2 |
Data Quality Improvements |
Date | Release Version | Release Notes |
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Monday, December 06, 2021 | 1.00 | Initial Release |
Date | Release Version | Release Notes |
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5/14/2019 | 1.0 | Initial Release |
6/5/2019 | 1.1 | New Features • On the Course Summary and Course Trends view, users can select the students’ major / program. This option should will allow users to see total registrations, credits attempted, and credits attempted by major / program. Data Quality Improvements • Resolved issue with missing school, department and major / program information. • Resolved issue where major / program assigned to the incorrect academic level. • Resolved issue where full-time status was blank. • Made minor requested revisions to department and major program names. New Data Elements Available • New Major / Program: This field, available on the Total Students Summary and Total Summary Trends pages identifies new to the university major / programs. New major / programs are as any major / program starting in the last five academic years (between the 2014-2015 and 2018-2019 academic years. Institutional Research is working with the schools and colleges to improve the accuracy of these lists. |
5/8/2020 | 1.2 | New Features • New report page for Full Time Equivalence Trend • New report page for Proportion of Full Time Students |
10/27/2020 | 1.3 | New Features • Additional slicers (such as Demographics) on the Trend pages |
3/16/2021 | 1.4 | New Features • New report page for Minors |
Date | Release Version | Release Notes |
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6/26/2020 | 1.0 | Initial Release |
Current Operational InformSU is in the process of being updated in order to expand reporting abilities and improve overall functionality. This need is being driven partially by the fact that our previous reporting tool, SUDDS, is no longer supported. However, the predominate driver is the ability to provide cost effective and easily consumable data directly to stakeholders to meet the dynamic needs across Seattle University.
In order to fill this need, InformSU is moving to a cloud based data warehouse service through Amazon Web Services (AWS), called Amazon Redshift. A data warehouse is a central repository of information that can be analyzed to make better informed decisions.
Data flows regularly into a data warehouse from SU systems. The current Operational InformSU only includes Colleague and retired SUDDS, but under Amazon Redshift InformSU will have the ability to expand to other SU systems, such as Canvas, Slate, etc. Amazon Redshift will act as a database in the Cloud, linking Seattle University system’s data.
InformSU will have enhanced access to data through Amazon Redshift. In order to provide self-service reporting, users have access to InformSU through a business intelligence tool, Microsoft’s Power BI. Power BI acts as a self-service analytics and reporting tool. Power BI enables users to create reports and analytics, schedule reports to run automatically, send reports and have dashboards with responsive designs.