Dashboard Development Guidelines
The Data Digest offers general facts and figures related to Admitted Student data, Student enrollment, Degrees awarded, Retention & Graduation rates, and an overview of Employee counts.
Access: Public
VCU's strategic plan, Quest 2025, continues to make VCU the premier urban, public research university. This dashboard visualizes the plan's metrics and the progress toward the goal.
The HR Dashboard is available to VPs and executive leadership as well as Human Resources Professionals (HRPs). The dashboard presents an overall trend of VCU as well as each organization’s human capital and related expenditures. It includes Demographics, Recruitment, Turnover, Benefits, Compensation, Workforce Strategy, Performance Management, Retirement, and Geography metrics.
Access: Restricted to authorized VCU eID users and is assigned by role (executive level verses departmental level) and by Banner organizational units (MBUs, Departments)
Each unit on campus has the ability to achieve VCU's mission: Together We Transform. This restricted access dashboard provides units the capability to drill into their own metrics related to the overall university mission.
Access: Restricted to authorized VCU eID users. Request access to this dashboard at URL: https://irds.vcu.edu/facts--figures/access--data-requests/dpaccessrequest.html
The Principal Investigator Dashboard is a monitoring tool that allows Principal Investigators (PI) the ability to view all of their financial grant information in one place. On the dashboard, the PI can see all Grant Expenditures, Personnel Commitments on grants, Current and Pending Proposals, and Monthly Expense reports.
Access: Principal Investigators are automatically given access to the PI Dashboard when their grants become active in Banner Finance.
The Finance Dashboard is available to VPs, Deans, Chairs, Department Heads and Fiscal Administrators. The dashboard presents an overall financial picture of each organization. It includes: Fund Summary, HR Related Measures, Budget Balance by Index, Expenditure Trends, and Monthly Expense Reports.
Access: Restricted to authorized VCU eID users and is assigned by role (Dean level, department head level, fiscal administrator, fiscal staff, etc.) and by Banner organizational units (MBUs, Departments and Sub-departments)
The Research Financial Award Dashboard is for grant financial managers to monitor post awards from Banner Finance. On the dashboard, research financial managers can see post-award expenses by PI, personnel encumbrances by grant, program income, monitor deficit spending, and view post-award monthly expense reports on indexes attached to post-award grants.
Access: Restricted to authorized VCU eID users and is assigned by Banner organizational units (MBUs, Departments, and Sub-departments). Research Financial Administrators or Department Heads/Directors can request access to the dashboard by submitting a ticket through the VCU Service Desk.
The REAL Data Dashboard tracks student engagement in experiential learning activities, and provides colleges and schools a detailed picture of who is enrolling in these activities. Open to the public, the REAL Data Dashboard's primary goal is to find and address gaps in access to experiential learning by making the invisible visible, bringing to light (often unintentional) institution-wide trends.
The First Destination Survey Dashboard reflects the survey results' analysis completed by the Office of Institutional Research and Decision Support, and includes information on employment, continuing education, opinions about job placement, and preparedness for life after graduation.
Access: Restricted to authorized VCU eID users. Please visit https://irds.vcu.edu/facts--figures/access--data-requests/dpaccessrequest.html for access requests.
