Dashboard Builder/Insight Designer resources, tips or tricks?

@Kristen Duval - I hear exactly what you are saying. At my previous position, we purchased Insight Designer very quickly in the hopes of using its potential power to gain some academic insights. One of my first major projects was doing a deep dive into grade distributions. Imagine how shocked I was when the numbers the Insight Designer gave me were different than the numbers the Grading Reports: Grade Distribution gave me. Both were looking at the exact same data, but after hours of combing through the data, I figured out that Insight Designer was not counting grades issued in a course that was later dropped. I was told that Insight Designer “was functioning as designed.” I was baffled as to why a hard-wired system report would function one way while the new cutting-edge analysis tool functioned differently with the same data. After that experience, I did not trust the numbers I was seeing via the Insight Designer Dashboard. I was also dismayed by the lack of academic data points available in the module. I felt it really limited the module's potential in this area. My current school has chosen not to purchase the module to date, so I have not worked with the module in 2 years and do not know if it has improved, but from your post, it sounds as if some of the same issues exist. Unrealized potential…

Scott

@Kristen Duval Thank you for offering to get all of this together!

I've been keeping a general list of what I'm finding in the Dashboards to begin with so that the admins I eventually share it with will have some context.
I'm still struggling with the Insight Designer and plan to wait until we're deeper into the enrollment season so that I have more data points to validate.

So far, I have-

General: There will be a time delay- at times when numbers vary from day to day, this is important to keep in mind

Reporting
* Includes returning students who haven’t yet re-enrolled
* Will include fake or test students, so mentally discount those (we try to mark them with some kind of outlier designation, like a gender that isn't otherwise being used.

Admissions Overview
* Funnel counts candidates who enrolled and then withdrew as being enrolled

?My overall goal is to create an Insight that compares Status of active applicants by grade to prior years, all on one chart. So for instance, “As of December 1st for the last 10 years, we had this many Inquiries for second grade.”

If anyone knows how I can generate something like that I'd be ecstatic.

@Kristen Duval please and thank you! I am particularly interested in what you discover re Grading Analytics!

@Kathleen Sanders
Any chance you can reshare this? I get a 404 error when I click it