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Dashboard Framework

Dashboard Framework (SIT V3) provides institutions with customizable dashboards for students, instructors, and administrators featuring data visualizations. These dashboards can be developed for custom use cases beyond those already available in Blackboard. Examples include dashboards that highlight key markers such as progress, engagement, and completion—with the ability to present role-specific views and insights.

A dashboard labeled Instructor Dashboard that has several different visualizations on it.

What you can build

Dashboards can include a broad range of visualization components.

  • Table

    A table visualization, showing columns for course_id, course_name, and role

  • Chart

    A chart visualization, showing a line that represents instructors and columns that represent students

  • Single Stat

    A single stat visualization, showing assignments that need grading

  • Card

    A card visualization, showing a filter for courses and a card with progress, role in course, and a button to Open Course for each course

  • Parameters with table

    Parameters with table visualization, with columns for Course Id, Name, Instructor Count, and Student Count

  • HTML

    An HTML visualization, showing Lorem ipsum text

  • Button

    A button visualization, with the text on the button displaying Submit

  • Image

    An image visualization, showing an image of King Arthur kneeling with Excalibur. It is titled Excalibur and has the caption "King Arthur with Excalibur."

  • Progress bar

    A progress bar visualization, titled My Progress with a portion labeled 20 in green, a portion labeled 35 in red, and a portion labeled 42 in gray. There is a legend that indicates green is Complete, red is Late, and gray is Not Started.

Example use cases

  • Instructor dashboards that spotlight course workload and action items (for example, items that need grading).

  • Student dashboards that show academic progress and completion status at a glance.

  • Administrative dashboards that provide program/term-level visibility into engagement and completion markers.

Implementation approach

Institutions work with Anthology Professional Services to develop custom visualizations and dashboards, with deliverables defined by the scope of work. Once visualizations are created, teams can assemble new dashboards using those existing visualization building blocks.

Dashboard Framework provides a repeatable dashboard foundation that supports multiple audiences, highlights the metrics that matter, and allows ongoing dashboard creation through reusable visualizations—without starting from scratch each time.

The complete Dashboard Framework help is located in the extension. To explore getting started with Dashboard Framework, contact your account representative.