Public-facing dashboards give districts the ability to be transparent with their communities. This can be displayed on your website, through parent portals, or just shared internally. Below are a few best practices that may be helpful for you to read through to learn more about public facing dashboards.
A dashboard can be made public so that anyone can access it using a single link. This means people would not need to have an account and log in to view the dashboard. However, before you pursue this route, there are some important considerations to take into account. Once you make a dashboard public, anyone can access it and look at its data. Keep this in mind when setting up your dashboard.
- Some examples of public-facing information that districts have provided are (but are not limited to):
- demographic data,
- student count for IEPs and GIEPs,
- enrollment,
- discipline data,
- attendance data,
- fiscal spending,
- student/teacher experience data,
- and more!
Public-facing dashboards can be helpful if you are looking to save some time. Through integrations with your SIS, there is no need to manually pull in demographic data, etc - you can integrate it into the backend! In addition, to using integrations, it has automations, branching logic, and SMS capabilities - giving you the ability to have always-on channels, texts, social media, and other forms of outreach!
Public facing dashboards also provide real-time results and options for advanced analytics - Stats iQ, Driver iQ, Text iQ, Predict iQ, and Voice iQ! In addition, data can be collected over time with results that are easily transferred and tracked over multiple survey administrations! Public facing dashboards provide the the strictest security and compliance credentials to ensure data protection.
If you would like help setting up a dashboard, please utilize these resources:
Qtip: Dashboard export capabilities are not currently available in public dashboards. For workarounds, we recommend looking into automated survey data exports or Qualtrics API paired with a web service task.
What other practices have worked for your school district when creating and sharing public facing dashboards? What information has been helpful for your district to share out?