Student Activity Hub

Last Updated: July 21, 2020 1:18:55 PM PDT

Learn about the Student Activity Hub (SAH), a next generation analytical platform that helps drive data driven decision making in support of student success.

About the Student Activity Hub

Tableau dashboard The Student Activity Hub (SAH) combines information about all graduate and undergraduate students into a single repository.

Academic analysts, advisors, and faculty can access the curated data through supported reporting and visualization tools: Tableau and Cognos.

In the initial phase, the SAH is designed to make institutional and operational reporting easier by providing access to 15 years’ worth of student data featuring retention, graduation rates, enrollments, demographics, class scheduling, and more.

In later phases, real-time learning data fed from the learning management system will allow for analysis, group building, and messaging of students based on a multitude of criteria.

SAH is Live

The Student Activity Hub is in production. New data elements and enhancements are added regularly. View the Current Release Notes (login required) on the project collab page.

Access

Access to SAH is currently by invitation only and requires pre-approval by the registrar's office, completed FERPA training and completed Privacy 101 Workshop training. Contact the Registrars office for access. Access to the data is made available through our supported analytical tools, Cognos and Tableau, after you have been approved and attended SAH onboarding.

Data availability

Once you gain access, we'll send you instructions on how to get started in addition to information on our Communities of Practice. Being part of the community will ensure you get the most out of the system.

Available packages include current and census student demographic information.
Use the search box to enter the package name in either Cognos or Tableau.
For information on getting started with Cognos, visit the Cognos Training page.
For information on getting started with Tableau, visit the Tableau Training and Resources page.

Data set	Contents	Package/Data Source	Cognos	Tableau
Enrollment	Courses, Class Sections, Grades, Units	SAH-Enrollment-View	available	available
Enrollment Census	Same as Enrollment but changes per term stop on Census Date	SAH-EnrollmentCensus-View	available	available
Major Minor	Primary Major, Secondary Major, Primary Minor, Secondary Minor	SAH-MajorMinor-View	available	available
Major Minor Detail	Changes to majors or minors	SAH-MajorMinorDetail-View	available	available
Retention	Progressed # Years, Retained # Years, Graduated within # Years	SAH-Retention-View	available	available
Retention Census	Same as Retention except changes per term stop on Census Date	SAH-RetentionCensus-View	available	available
Retention Detail	Progressed, Retained, Graduated	SAH-RetentionDetail-View	available	available
Retention Detail Census	Same as Retention Detail except changes per term stop on Census Date	SAH-RetentionDetailCensus-View	available	available
Majors Minors Census	Same as Majors Minors except changes per term stop on Census Date	SAH-MajorMinorCensus-View	available	Coming Soon
LMS	Assignments, Finals, Grades	Coming Soon	Coming Soon	Coming Soon

Helpful links

BI Tools: (Choosing a tool)
BI Tools: Licensing
IGC Definitions (login required)
SAH Ticketing Process (PDF)
SAH Cheat Sheet (Coming soon)
Report an SAH Issue to busintel@ucsd.edu

Contact the IT Services Business Intelligence and Analytics Team with questions.

Note: this page has a friendly link that's easy to remember: http://blink.ucsd.edu/go/sah.