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Drive student success with FERPA-compliant Power BI solutions. Student performance tracking, enrollment management, retention analytics, accreditation reporting, and institutional effectiveness dashboards for K-12 through higher education.
Purpose-built analytics solutions addressing the student lifecycle from enrollment through graduation, plus institutional effectiveness, compliance, and financial management.
Track student academic performance from enrollment through graduation with early alert systems for at-risk students. Monitor GPA trends, course completion rates, credit accumulation, and milestone progress to intervene before students fall behind.
Optimize enrollment funnels from prospect through enrolled student with yield analytics, recruitment effectiveness tracking, and demographic analysis. Forecast enrollment by program, modality, and student type for capacity planning.
Identify at-risk students before they drop out using predictive retention models. Track fall-to-fall retention, course-level retention, stop-out patterns, and re-enrollment rates with root cause analysis by student demographics and academic factors.
Automated reporting for Title IX, Clery Act, IPEDS, FERPA compliance, and accreditation requirements. Generate board-ready reports and self-study documentation with drill-down into institutional effectiveness metrics.
From faculty workload analysis and budget management to learning analytics and workforce development -- purpose-built for education organizations.
Track teaching loads, research output, service commitments, and advising ratios to optimize faculty resource allocation.
Track tuition revenue, state appropriations, auxiliary income, and expenditures by department with fund balance monitoring and forecasting.
Integrate with Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, and D2L to track student engagement, assignment completion, and course activity patterns.
Optimize classroom and facility usage with occupancy tracking, scheduling efficiency analysis, and capital project monitoring.
Strategic plan progress tracking, KPI dashboards for institutional goals, and benchmarking against peer institutions.
Track continuing education enrollments, certification pass rates, employer partnership metrics, and workforce training outcomes.
Proven Power BI solutions for K-12 districts, community colleges, universities, eLearning providers, and corporate training organizations.
District-wide dashboards tracking student achievement by school, grade, and demographic group. Monitor chronic absenteeism, discipline incidents, special education compliance, and teacher effectiveness with state accountability alignment.
Enrollment management, student success, and workforce development dashboards for two-year institutions. Track Guided Pathways progress, developmental education outcomes, and transfer rates to four-year institutions.
Comprehensive institutional analytics for universities covering enrollment, retention, graduation rates, research productivity, and endowment performance with accreditation support.
Learning analytics for fully online and hybrid programs tracking student engagement, course completion, learner satisfaction, and faculty online teaching effectiveness.
Statewide education dashboards for departments of education tracking school performance, accountability metrics, funding distribution, and educator workforce data.
Training effectiveness dashboards for corporate learning and development tracking completion rates, skill gap closure, certification compliance, and training ROI.
With deep education sector expertise and 28+ years of Microsoft technology experience, EPC Group understands the unique needs of K-12 districts, colleges, and universities for student success, accreditation, and compliance.
Deep domain expertise in K-12, community colleges, universities, and eLearning with consultants who understand student success, accreditation, and compliance.
Every solution designed for FERPA compliance with role-based access, audit trails, and student data privacy protections from initial design.
Extensive experience serving school districts, community colleges, state university systems, and eLearning companies.
Proven integration with Banner, PeopleSoft, Workday Student, Canvas, Blackboard, and other education platforms.
Schedule a free consultation to discuss your institution's analytics needs and how we can improve student success, retention, and institutional effectiveness.
Yes, Power BI is FERPA compliant when properly configured within a Microsoft 365 Education tenant with appropriate Business Associate Agreements. EPC Group implements role-based access controls, row-level security, audit logging, and data classification to ensure student personally identifiable information (PII) is protected according to FERPA requirements.
Power BI provides comprehensive student analytics including individual performance tracking with early alert scoring, cohort-based graduation rate analysis, course pass/fail rates, credit accumulation monitoring, retention prediction models, enrollment funnel analytics, and demographic trend analysis. Dashboards can be customized for advisors, deans, and institutional researchers.
Yes, Power BI excels at campus-wide dashboards covering enrollment management, student success, faculty workload, financial performance, facilities utilization, and institutional effectiveness KPIs. Dashboards can be embedded in SharePoint, Teams, or custom portals with role-based views for different stakeholders from president to department chair.
Yes, Power BI integrates with Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, D2L Brightspace, and other LMS platforms through REST APIs, data exports, or direct database connections. This enables learning analytics including student engagement tracking, assignment completion analysis, course activity patterns, and comparison of online versus face-to-face outcomes.
Microsoft offers deeply discounted Power BI licensing for qualified education institutions. Power BI Pro is available at reduced per-user pricing, and Power BI Premium capacity can be shared across departments. Many institutions qualify for Microsoft 365 A5 which includes Power BI Pro. EPC Group helps optimize licensing to minimize costs while maximizing capabilities.
A focused Power BI implementation for education typically takes 6-12 weeks depending on scope. This includes SIS/LMS data integration, dashboard development, FERPA compliance configuration, and training. Enterprise-wide implementations covering multiple departments and data sources may take 3-6 months with phased rollout.
Join leading educational institutions using EPC Group's Power BI solutions to improve student outcomes, drive retention, and demonstrate institutional effectiveness.