Introduction to Data Management

The Data Management platform enables institutions to collect, manage and report on data useful for accreditation, student success, as well as teaching and learning. The platform is offered to end-users as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) web application, accessible via any modern web browser. The platform can, should, and in some cases, must be integrated into existing institutional data infrastructure to gain the most benefit from its capabilities through methods outlined in this document.

The Data Management exchange process enables an institution to send basic, large data sets to the Blackboard Institutional Effectiveness platform to establish user accounts and course information that will be used for data insight and reporting. There are two sets of data that Blackboard Institutional Effectiveness considers part of Data Management:

The data will need to be extracted from your institution’s SIS or Data Warehouse and transferred in a .csv format or via API to Blackboard Institutional Effectiveness in the central repository known as Data Management.  Each of the tools in the Blackboard Institutional Effectiveness platform being utilized by your institution will look to Data Management to get some of the data points needed.