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Power BI for managers

new for autumn 2024

This is a new version of out Introduction to Power BI, this time contextualised to college managers. 

The starter files required are data masked copies of the real Moodle reports which we use to track student progress. (data masked being the names / emails of our students overwritten ‘to protect the guilty’ 🙂

There are 4 pre-recorded tutorials and the starter files can be found below

here's one i made earlier

The embedded Power BI below is a copy of our ‘real’ student progress tracker… but will all the student names ‘data-masked’ ie overwritten…to ‘protect the guilty’… 🙂

There are a total of 16 datasets included.

There are 5 classes, and each class has 2 Moodle reports:

1) Student Tasks Complete – arranged in Theory Tasks first and then Practical

2) Moodle Progress and Completion Trackers. This report identifies when the student was last on Moodle, and at what stage they are at with their completion trackers


In addition, we have a separate table for each class identifying which of their IV record paperwork has been completed, and finally an IV Summary Table with all the IV Record due dates.


We wanted to identify:

Students who were falling behind for any reason:

We now have a alert to show if anyone hasn’t accessed Moodle for a given number of days

Running Total PIs for each class – calculated by dividing the number of tasks completed per student by number of tasks due

starter files

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Power BI for Managers

Starter files

Starter files for Power BI for Managers

Download the 2 starter files and save to your OneDrive.

The first is the main starter file which is a combination of 2 Moodle outputs

24.25 sem 1 progress – Data Masked


The second is an Excel spreadsheet of IV Records, due dates and completed

IV Paperword 24.25 PBI Managers

The third is a ZIP folder with the 5 class images

Class Images

Video Tutorials - power bi for managers

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Power BI for Managers

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Certificated free courses

Introduction to Power BI - Colleges Completion Rates

Introduction to Power BI - Colleges Completion Rates

The first of our Introduction to Power BI - updated for Autumn 2024 - based on a dataset of college completion rates in Scotland. Suitable for Power BI beginners with a good grounding in Excel

Excel Power Query - The Chase

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Excel Power Query - The Chase

Introduction to data transformation using Excel Power Query - based on 4 years of statistics from ITV's The Chase

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Excel Zero to Excel Hero #1

Suitable for Excel beginners with no prior knowledge required

Starter files for youtube tutorials

The various starter files for our YouTube tutorials can be found here

Introduction to Power BI College Completion Rates starter file

Intro to PBI Completion Rates starter file

Starter file for Excel Power Query – The Chase
The Chase Stats – starter file

Starter file for Excel Zero to Excel Hero #1

Excel Zero to Hero starter file

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