Using the Adoption Dashboard

You can export the visualizations in this dashboard to .CSV, .XLS, or .PPT using the export icon. You can view the visualizations as a table by clicking the table icon, or return to the visualization by clicking the table icon again.

Login Trend

The Login Trend card provides information about how frequently users log in to Brightspace. The visualization displays the total number of logins on each day of the date range. By default, all users of the Adoption Dashboard see the total number of users that have logged in to Brightspace each day, as well as the minimum, average, and maximum login counts for the date range. The total number of logins for the current day is displayed as a summary value when you hover over the data points in the visualization.

The visualization is interactive, and you can click and drag to highlight and zoom in to the dates you want to see.

Course Access

The Course Access visualization shows how enrolled users are accessing courses across the organization over a specific time frame. Administrators can use this information to determine which courses learners are accessing, and when. The data is rolled up to different levels of the organization hierarchy.

By default, the visualization checks the LMS roles and permissions to find the highest-level organization, where the user is enrolled in at least one course offering. The user can then view course access totals compared by org units at the next level of the hierarchy. For example, if the next level is departments, you will see course access totals for each department.

This visualization is interactive. You can click on a bar in the visualization to drill into the next level of child org units to see course access across those units. You can continue drilling through until you reach the lowest level of org units for which you have permissions to access.

The aggregated value for each bar on the graph is the total number times in a day that a course is accessed over the last 2 weeks across the child org units, regardless of user permissions. Access control restricts users from seeing individual course offerings, but will allow them to see aggregated values across higher level org units.

Course offerings are included in this visualization if they meet the following conditions:

  • The course start date is before or within the reporting period. Course access that occurs before a course begins is not counted.
  • The course end date is after or within the reporting period, or is set to NULL.
  • The course start and end dates are both NULL, and the Active flag is selected. If the course offering is active at the time the report is run, it is included in the report.
  • The course is active and has no visits.

This chart displays the minimum, average, and maximum course access counts for the course offerings on the chart.

It may be difficult to see individual data points if there are more than 10 data points. In this case, scroll to see all the data points for each org unit. Then, you can click on the bar to further drill into your area of interest.

Tool Usage Trend

The Tool Usage Trend visualization shows how tools are being used over the last 12 months in weekly summaries across courses.

By providing information about how different user roles and org units are using the available tools, you can measure the success of adoption campaigns and the use of key tools around specific tools against policies.

The following tools are included if there is usage to report in any org unit:

  • Announcements
  • Assignments
  • Awards
  • Calendar
  • Classlist
  • Chat
  • Checklist
  • Content
  • Discussions
  • Email
  • Grades
  • Quick Eval. Note: This tool is often used at the org level and not in an individual org unit. This may result in individual org units not appearing when you drill down into the data.
  • Quizzes
  • Surveys

You can choose to filter out inclusion of one or many tools by clicking on the tool(s) in the legend.

Clicking on a single colored area will drill into details about that specific tool use trend grouped by role. You can then select a role to drill into the aggregated use of that tool by the selected role across organizational units at a high level.

It may be difficult to see individual data points if there are more than 10 data points. In this case, click and drag to highlight and zoom in to the area you want to see. Then, you can click on the data point to further drill into your area of interest.

Tool Usage Comparison

The Tool Usage Comparison visualization uses a stacked bar chart to compare which tools have been used over the last 30 days across org units.

By providing information about how different org units are using the available tools, you can measure the success of adoption campaigns, the use of key tools around specific tools against policies, and understand usage patterns amongst org unit structures.

The following tools are included if there is usage to report in any org unit:

  • Announcements
  • Assignments
  • Awards
  • Calendar
  • Classlist
  • Chat
  • Checklist
  • Content
  • Discussions
  • Email
  • Grades
  • Quick Eval Note: This tool is often used at the org level and not in an individual org unit. The may result in data in the top level that does not appear when drilling into the data or in the tool usage comparison visualization.
  • Quizzes
  • Surveys

You can choose to filter out inclusion of one or many tools by clicking on the tool(s) in the legend.

Clicking on an organization on the x-axis will drill into details for that org unit structure and aggregate at the next level. You can drill down to a maximum of 6 levels, including the top level.

It may be difficult to see individual data points if there are more than 10 data points. In this case, scroll to see all the data points for each org unit.

Enrollment and Withdrawal Trends

The Enrollments and Withdrawal Trends visualization helps users to understand patterns of course enrollments and withdrawals for both regular enrollment and rolling enrollments over the previous 16 weeks. The information on this visualization can help provide information around key dates such as semester start and the last day to drop a course. In addition, it can provide information about spikes that may be due to other underlying issues.

By default, users see total enrollment and withdrawal counts grouped by day over the previous 16 weeks. Counts are for all course offerings in the entire organization regardless of whether the user viewing the report is enrolled in the courses.

The visualization is interactive, and you can click and drag to highlight and zoom in to the dates you want to see.

On the Adoption Dashboard, a withdrawal is treated as an explicit un-enrollment from a course and does not reflect if a learner’s status is changed from active to inactive.