2019 D2L Connection: Dublin Edition 4th annual European D2L Connection; a professional learning opportunity for educators, corporate training professionals, and D2L employees. Wednesday-Thursday, October 9-10, 2019 at O’Reilly Hall, University College Dublin (UCD) Track 2 (User Enablement): Using MS Power BI to create full, interactive reports using Brightspace Data Sets, Robin Lawrenson, Senior Implementation Consultant, D2L

1. DUBLIN
Brightspace Datasets
with MS Power BI

2. Robin Lawrenson
Snr. Implementation Consultant EMEA
Hi,
Robin.lawrenson@d2l.com

3. Agenda
• Introduction
• Brightspace Analytics
• MS Power BI overview
• Use Case walkthrough
• Lets build a Report
• Q&A

4. Brightspace Analytics
Overview of Analytics and Data Access

5. ACCESS
Data is the foundation of
analytics.
How do you access it?
ANALYSIS
Data on its own isn’t
enough.
How do I make sense of
it?
ACTION
Knowledge + Action =
Results.
How will you use data to
drive change?
The three A’s

6. Data
Solutions
Consulting
Brightspace Analytics
Built-in reports
and dashboards in
Brightspace Learning
Environment
Brightspace Core
Rich visualizations of
achievement,
assessment, and
engagement analytics
Performance Plus -
Insights
Predictive analytics to
identify at-risk and
disengaged learners
for early intervention
Performance Plus –
S3/LEAP
Access to your data for data mining, research, and analysis
Brightspace Core

7. Brightspace Data Sets

8. MS Power BI

9. Power BI Desktop used for report creation …..it’s free
Export and Share reports securely with other users*
Create Power BI Role level security*
Brightspace Datasets can be used to create multiple different reports
Updating existing Datasets to automatically refresh reports
What are the key benefits
Clean and simple integration from 70+ datasources
* requires BI Pro

10. Using MS Power BI to create full,
interactive reports using Brightspace Data Sets

11. User Case 1
As an Instructor, I want to see summary
metrics on all courses I am assigned to
• Courses by Year, Semester, Role or Individual
• Number of Enrollments per Course
• Courses Summary listing (start dates etc, enrollments)

12. Datasets
The following datasets have been used:
• OrganizationalUnits
• OrganizationalUnitsDescendants
• UserEnrollments
• Users

16. User Case 2
As an Admin, I want to know what courses are not
ready for the new semester/term
• Number of content items
• Number of Quizzes, Discussions, Assignments
• Number of instructor logins in the last month

17. Datasets
The following datasets have been used:
• OrganizationalUnits
• UserEnrollments
• Users
• DiscussionForums
• CourseAccess
• ContentObjects
• AssignmentSummary
• QuizObjects

20. User Case 3 – build the dashboard
As an Instructor, I want to get a better
understanding of course engagement and
individual student engagement
• Content Modules and Topics in a course
• Enrollments in a course
• How many Students have completed these Topics

21. Live walkthrough setting up a simple
The following datasets will been used:
• OrganizationalUnits
• ContentUserCompletion
• Content Objects
• UserEnrollments
Datasets
Lets look at Power BI

22. Q&A

23. Thank you!

24. Resources
Brightspace
Analytics
Community
Power BI
https://app.powerbi.com/home(PBI home)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=45331(download)
https://community.brightspace.com/s/article/Brightspace-Core-Analytics-Administrator-Guide
Attachment: BSCoreAnalytics-AdminGuide.doc
Blog #1: How To Get Data From Brightspace Into Usable Reports: An Overview
https://community.brightspace.com/s/article/How-to-get-data-from-Brightspace-into-usable-reports-
An-Overview
Using Data Hub
Tale of Two Data Driven Questions https://community.brightspace.com/s/article/A-Tale-of-Two-Data-
Driven-Questions
Practical Usage of Data Hub Data https://community.brightspace.com/s/article/Practical-Usage-of-Data-
Hub-Data

25. Data Solutions Consulting Service
Service focuses on defining data-driven goals, completing a needs analysis and feasibility study and
recommending a data solution required to answer identified business problems.
The offering is available in 4 different packages, or lengths of engagement:
1 Month / 32 hours
Get Started With Data
Assist with:
• Development of
overall Brightspace
data strategy
• Use of data sets (full
and differential)
• Use of APIs for data
extraction
3 Months / 96 hours
Get Some Results
Assist with:
• Solving a specific data
problem, including:
• Identifying
relevant data sets
• Data extraction
• Data storage
• Query assistance
6 Months / 192 hours
Get Data Programs Started
12 Months / 384 hours
Partner to Evolve Your
Data Strategy
Assist with:
• Solving additional data
problems
• Gaining a deeper
understanding of
Brightspace data
relationships
• Development of final
reporting solution
Assist with:
• Combining Brightspace
data with other data
sources

26. Data Set Excel Templates
• Learner Usage: The Learner Usage example focuses on
aggregating data across your Brightspace users, and showing how
and where users were engaging with content and courses.
• Instructor Usage: The Instructor Usage example shows different
examples using the Instructor Usage data set that will focus on data
based on role, course or user.
• CLOE: Course Learning Outcomes Evaluation (CLOE)

27. Data Sets Updates
• Quiz Answers - October Release
• Quiz Attempts - October Release
• Turnitin Assignment Sub - October Release
• Competency Activity results - October Release
• LTI Links - October Release
• Intelligent Agent Runs - October Release
• Grade Object Log - November Release
• Release Condition Objects - November Release
• Release Conditions Met - November Release

28. Power BI Plans
Desktop Pro Premium
• Free to any single user
• Includes data cleaning
and preparation
• Custom visualizations
• Publish to web
• Export to excel and ppt
• 70+ datasources
• Apps
• Email subscriptions
• Embed API’s
• Sharing
• Publish & consume
from workspaces
• Scale and Performance
• Cloud hosting
• Sharing flexibility
• Data residency
• License by capacity
60 day free trial
$9.99/user/month
tenant-level Office 365
subscription
starts at $4,995free