Student Data Community of Practice

Available Data

Cal Answers Student Data Dashboards Map

Student Data dashboards provide Cal Answers users with the ability to view and analyze student data in order to answer questions and improve decision making. The student data dashboards currently available in Cal Answers...

Does the Summer term lead or trail in the academic calendar?

The Summer term leads in the UC Berkeley academic calendar. Note that the Financial Aid Year treats Summer as a trailing term, however.

Summer-Fall-Spring

Data Love! February CoP Friday, 02.08.19 Academic Planning Dashboard and Cal Answers Upgrade

February 6, 2019

data love

What's not to love about data and February?

February 2019 CoP session

Come learn more at the new Divisional level Academic Planning Dashboard presented by Malcolm Quon, Institutional Research Analyst with the...

NEW Graduate Applicants Dashboard! Cal Answers Student Data January Community of Practice

January 7, 2019

Happy New Year 2019!

Kicking off the new year with a new Cal Answers Student Data Dashboard-

Graduate Applicants

Come learn more at the January 2019...

December Community of Practice - Data for Grant Writing, 12.14.18

December 6, 2018

Join us for the December Cal Answers Student Data Community of Practice session on using data in support of grant writing.

Christopher Hunn, Director of Undergraduate Instruction, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the College of Engineering and Andrew Eppig, Institutional Research Analyst from the Office of Equity & Inclusion will share their experiences using data in support of grant writing. ...

Derived Residency now Available in Cal Answers Student Demographics & Outcomes

September 25, 2018

Derived Residency now Available in Cal Answers Student Demographics & Outcomes

The Residency Status column in Cal Answers Student Demographics & Outcomes dashboards has been replaced with Derived Residency, which makes it easy to distinguish between

CA Resident Out of State Domestic International students.

Previously, two separate fields were needed to accomplish this. The change applies to both prompts and column selectors in the dashboards. In...

Major Pipeline Analysis, part 2 of 2, September CoP Session Friday, 9.14.18 @ 1 pm

September 10, 2018
Pipeline Analysis, part 2 of 2 this Friday, September 14, 2018, @ 1:00 pm in Doe Library, room 308A

Pipeline Analysis, part 2 of 2

Come out to learn about the basics of analyzing the Major migration of our students from our...

Pipeline Analysis: Student Data Community of Practice this Friday, August 10th

August 8, 2018

We look forward to seeing you at our August Community of Practice session this Friday, August 10, 2018, @ 1:00 pm in Doe Library, room 308A.

Pipeline Analysis, part 1 of 2

Come out to learn...

Spring 2018 Student End of Term Data Now Available

August 2, 2018

The Spring 2018 End of Term (EOT) snapshot is now available in the Cal Answers Student Curriculum subject areas and relevant dashboards and also in the Ad Hoc Analysis->Students Registered subject areas. The End of Term (EOT) snapshot occurs approximately 8-9 weeks after the last day of the semester.

Student Curriculum example

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Join the Student Data Community of Practice

July 5, 2018
Are you a current user of the Cal Answers student data dashboards? Would you like to build your analysis skills and collaborate with like-minded data stewards on campus?

Register to be a member of the growing Cal Answers Student Data Community of Practice participating in monthly campus-wide Community of Practice collaborative working sessions where you can

share best practices via peer‐to‐peer learning inform improvements to processes, procedures, tools, and training materials solve challenging problems create...