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Illinois State University

Power BI

PowerBI is a tool that is part of Microsoft’s Office 365 offerings. Many departments are publishing individual dashboards. This page will list the centralized dashboards that can be available across departments.

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Student Success Dashboard

  • Assists in identifying students who could benefit from Advisor contact. Includes data from Campus Solutions, Achieve, ReggieNet, and Redbird Life.
  • Information for the current term, and the immediate terms before and after
  • Data updates overnight
  • Security enabled, access may be requested via ITHelp
  • Published via PowerBI App – 365@IllinoisState.edu

IT Help

Report not correct? Cognos not responding? PowerBI Dashboard won’t open?

For all technology support questions, contact the Technology Support Center.

(309) 438-HELP (4357) ITHelp@IllinoisState.edu IT Help Website

Frequently Asked Questions

  • How do I Request a Power BI Pro License?
Pro Licenses allow users to perform such functions as publish content to workspaces, collaborate in those workspaces, and subscribe to dashboards and reports. An approval for the issuance of the license will be required.
  1. Open a ticket in Cherwell to request a Power BI Pro License
  2. You will be notified once access has been granted
  • How do I Request that Power BI Desktop (64-bit) be Installed on my Machine?
While the Power BI Portal provides a good deal of report development functionality, users will require the Power BI desktop to have the full development capabilities provided by Power BI.
  1. Open a ticket in Cherwell to request Power BI Desktop (64-bit) be installed
  2. You will be notified once access has been granted
  • How do I Request a Workspace be Assigned to Premium Capacity?
Assigning workspaces to Premium Capacity affords several benefits, including dedicated processing power and the ability to publish content to non-Pro license users.
  1. Open a ticket in Cherwell to request a workspace be assigned to Premium Capacity
  2. You will be notified once access has been granted
  • How do I Request a New Workspace be Created and Assigned to Premium Capacity?
Power BI workspaces provide the ability for a Power BI content creator to share their content with other creators and business partners. Additionally, Power BI workspaces can be assigned to Premium Capacity. Assigning workspaces to Premium Capacity affords them several benefits, including dedicated processing power and the ability to publish content to non-Pro license users.
  1. Open a ticket in Cherwell to request a new workspace be created and assigned to Premium Capacity
  2. You will be notified once access has been granted
  • How do I Request Additional Resources be Added to Workspace?
Access to Workspace will need to be requested for any staff members who do not already have access.
  1. Open a ticket in Cherwell to add a resource(s) to a Power BI Workspace
  2. You will be notified once access has been granted
  • How do I Request Certification of a Dataset?
If you wish to have a dataset that you have developed certified for use by other workspaces, follow the steps below. In most cases, the underlying data in these datasets will be enterprise data, as opposed to faculty research data for instance. For security and quality purposes, the dataset should be reviewed and determined to be suitable for sharing amongst other workspaces before it should be made more widely available.
  1. Open a ticket in Cherwell to request certification of dataset
  2. You will be notified once access has been granted
  • How do I Request Access to a Certified Dataset?
To access previously developed and certified enterprise datasets for Power BI report development, follow the steps below. Enterprise datasets will be developed to provide users with a predefined and easily accessible data source without having to connect to various databases and model data in Power BI.
  1. Open a ticket in Cherwell to request certification of dataset
  2. You will be notified once access has been granted
  • How do I Request to Publish an App?
For Workspace Owners to get a Power BI app published, follow the steps below. Upon accessing an app, users will be required to login to Power BI with their ISU credentials. The request will need to go through an Administrator to perform the actual publish as most creators will not have permissions to publish content.
  1. Open a ticket in Cherwell to request to publish app
  • How do I Request to Publish Securely Embedded Content?
For a Workspace Owner to get Power BI content published to the web in a secured manner, follow the steps below. The key output of this process will be a “Secure Embed” URL. In this case, upon accessing a link to the Power BI content, users will be required to login to Power BI with their ISU credentials. The request will need to go through an Administrator to perform the URL generation, as most creators will not have permissions to do so.
  1. Open a ticket in Cherwell to request to publish securely embedded content
  2. You will be notified once access has been granted
  • How do I Request to Publish to Web (Unsecured)?
For a Workspace Owner to get Power BI content published to the web in an unsecured manner that is accessible by the general public, follow the steps below. The key output of this process will be a “Publish to Web” URL. In this case, upon accessing a link to the Power BI content, users will NOT be required to login to Power BI. Therefore, anyone with access to the URL will be able to view the content. Given this fact, additional security review should be completed before the URL is generated. The request will need to go through an Administrator to perform the URL generation, as most creators will not have permissions to so.
  1. Open a ticket in Cherwell to request to publish to web (unsecured)
  2. You will be notified once access has been granted
  • How do I Request to Share App with Additional User(s)?
To share Power BI content with additional users, follow the steps below. Based upon your role in a workspace, you may not have the capability to share items, such as reports and apps with users. If you do not, you will need to request that a Power BI Admin share the content with the desired users.
  1. Open a ticket in Cherwell to request to share app with additional user(s)
  2. You will be notified once access has been granted