Bridge Advanced Analytics is a built-in business intelligence tool hosted by Looker that lets you dive deeper into your learning records and build custom reporting views.
Learn how to provision the Advanced Analytics Analyst role and access Advanced Analytics in Bridge to dive deeper into your data.
How Do I Access Advanced Analytics in Bridge?
By default, Advanced Analytics is available in Bridge Analytics to users with the following roles:
Account Admin
Advanced Analytics Analyst
By provisioning the Advanced Analytics Analyst role, you can grant specific users deep reporting access without giving them full platform administrative privileges.
Tip: To use Advanced Analytics, you will need to add the Advanced Analytics Analyst role to the user you wish to give access to. Learn more about roles and permissions in Bridge.
How to Provision the Advanced Analytics Analyst Role
You can grant specific users access to your data dashboards by updating their account permissions.
Granting the Advanced Analytics Role in Bridge
This walkthrough demonstrates how to assign the Advanced Analytics role to a user in Bridge to provide access to the Advanced Analytics reporting environment.
From the Admin menu, select Users & Permissions, then click Manage Users. Locate the user requiring the permission and click Modify Roles to view their current role assignments. Select the Advanced Analytics Analyst role by checking the corresponding checkbox. Multiple roles can be assigned simultaneously if needed. Click Save to apply the selected roles. A green confirmation banner appears at the top of the page indicating the roles have been updated.
To verify the role assignment, click on the user and select Become to masquerade as that user. Navigate to Advanced Analytics while signed in as the user. Open Analytics and access the Overview dashboard.
My Folder appears as a personal workspace where dashboards and reports created in Advanced Analytics are stored. The Explore icon provides access to the Advanced Analytics reporting environment for building and customizing reports. This can also be accessed by clicking the three dots next to a dashboard and selecting Explore.
Navigate to Manage Users > Modify Roles.
Select the account you want to update.
Check the box for the Advanced Analytics Analyst role.
Select Save Changes.
Tip: Select Become to masquerade as the user and verify that the role has been assigned correctly.
How to Use Advanced Analytics in Bridge
Use the steps below to access Advanced Analytics and familiarize yourself with the key areas for building and managing reports.
Note: Creating new widgets and dashboards doesn’t override your current configurations.
Getting Started with Advanced Analytics. Navigate the Advanced Analytics workspace. Understand main navigation and reporting areas. Explore personal and shared folders. Create, save, and organize reports and dashboards. Build advanced reports.
Navigate to Analytics and open the Overview dashboard. Apply filters to refine displayed data. Select the Explore icon or click the three dots next to a dashboard and select Explore to access the Advanced Analytics reporting environment.
The Advanced Analytics dashboard displays available fields and features on the left-hand side for building and customizing reports. Use the Search box to find specific fields. The Filters tab at the top contains filters from the main Analytics page to refine and narrow data.
The visualization area displays the original widget opened in Advanced Analytics and updates as filters are applied, fields are added, and reports are customized. The data table below the visualization is where reports are built and refined before applying changes to the visualization. Click the gear icon next to a column to remove, filter, or pivot it.
Add fields to reports by navigating to sections like Courses, expanding dropdowns, and selecting fields such as Course Duration. Added fields appear in the data table. Click Run to apply changes and update the visualization with the latest report data.
Switch between visualization types to display data effectively. Available visualization types include Table format showing data based on applied fields and filters. The In Use tab displays all filters currently applied to the report for review and updating.
Customize reports using plot options and visualization settings at the top of the page. Use toggles in the Series tab to customize data display in the visualization. Formatting options are available to customize visualization appearance. A summary shows when the report was last updated and the current time zone.
Click the gear icon in the top-right corner to save dashboards, send to others, or download. Select Save as a New Dashboard. Enter a title for the dashboard in the dialog. Apply additional settings or filters using corresponding tabs before saving. Choose a folder such as My Folder to save the dashboard. A confirmation message indicates successful save with a link to open the dashboard directly.
The newly created dashboard displays quick actions in the blue toolbar at the top for commonly used features. Click the dashboard title to rename it. Update filters to refine data displayed in the visualization. Move and resize multiple widgets to create preferred layouts. Click Edit to access the editing workspace. Click the three-dot menu for additional dashboard management options. After editing, click Run to preview updates, then Save to apply changes and return to the updated dashboard.
Navigate to other areas of standard Analytics by selecting Analytics, then choosing sections like Transcript. Click the Folders icon in the top-right corner to view available folders. Select folders like My Folder to see saved dashboards and Looks. Click dashboards or Looks to open them.
Create a Custom Filtered Report
Users with access to Advanced Analytics can drill into underlying data, apply filters, perform more detailed analysis, and create custom dashboards and widgets.
Go to Analytics and select a page from the menu to load the dashboard.
Hover over the widget you want to analyze and select the vertical three-dot menu in the top-right corner of the tile.
Select Explore from here in the dropdown menu to open the Advanced Analytics reporting environment.
Locate your target field in the left-hand menu in the All Fields Tab and use the “filter by field” on the right-hand side to narrow down your results.
Expand the Filters section and update the fields to adjust the data exposed in your report.
Select Run in the top right-hand corner to populate the updated records.
Modify and Organize Your Data
Unlike standard platform transcript views, Advanced Analytics allows you to completely customize which data rows and columns display in your final output.
Remove Columns: To delete unnecessary columns from your active view, select the gear icon in the column header of the Results and select Remove.
Reorder Columns: To rearrange your table layout, select and hold the column header, drag it to your preferred position, and drop it.
Customize Data Visualizations: Use the icons in the Visualization section to customize how your data is displayed, and click Edit in the top-right corner to make further refinements based on the type of chart you’re using.
Schedule Automatic Data Deliveries
Save your custom report for future access, where you can edit, download, and share it.
In the Row Limit field of the Results section, set the value to 5,000 rows or fewer, as larger data sizes cannot be scheduled.
Select the gear icon in the top-right corner of the page, then select Save > As a Look from the dropdown menu to save your filtered layout.
Give your Look a title, choose the folder where you want to save it, and select Save.
Select the Folders icon in the top-right corner of the screen to open your new report inside the corresponding folder.
Select the gear icon, then choose Send to set up a one-time delivery. Alternatively, use Schedule to configure your automated delivery settings, including delivery frequency, data format, and destination.
You can automate data deliveries directly to email addresses, an SFTP server, a webhook, or an Amazon S3 bucket to integrate with your external tools.
Select Send Test to send the report to yourself, then select Save All when you’re done.
Learn More About Reporting and Analytics
Use this guide to deploy the Advanced Analytics Analyst role, filter custom learner data, and schedule automated data deliveries.
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