Overview
In this article, we will take you through how to create a dashboard and how to add charts to it, creating your own unique insights. By creating your own personalised dashboard you will now be able to get a view on a wide range of different data sets.
Create a Dashboard
In order to start personalising your insights you need to create a dashboard first. Go to your Insights section on Volunteero and press "+ Dashboard"
Name your Dashboard and decide who will be able to see this Dashboard. You can make it public, which means public to other staff users on your Volunteero Dashboard with Access to the Insights section. Or you can make it private so it's only viewable to you and other users you grant access to.
Types of Dashboard
You can create Insights Dashboard for a range of different reporting purposes. You might want to have all you data sets on one dashboard or you can split them up by:
Location
Project
Groups
Staff User that looks after that data
The possibilities are endless, create a dashboard today!
How to Edit and Customise Your Dashboard
Now you have created a Dashboard you can start adding your own personalised data sets to your dashboard canvas. Please select 'add chart' and select which dataset you want to add.
You can choose from the following datasets:
You can also add some rich text and media to your dashboard canvas to give your dashboard some more information and make it look nicer.
Editing Charts
When adding a chart to your dashboard, please name it appropriately. Choose what type of chart you want it in, you can choose from:
Line Graph
Area Graph
Bar Graph
Pie Chart
Number Card
Depending on the type of chart you choose can then plot it by different identifiers, split it by EDI information or mission templates and you can pick a timeframe. The options are endless and you can get really specific information.
Top tip: When choosing mission reports as a data set you can plot the answers from a report question.
In addition you can add filters to each chart. You can choose from the following filters:
Mission template
Qualification
Volunteer Tag
Volunteer Groups
Gender
Ethnicity
Religion
Orientation
Country
City
You can also then add multiple filters, if you want to really pinpoint a specific set of volunteers.
Dashboard filters
Other than putting a filter on the dashboard you can also leave the charts more general and putting a filter on the entire dashboard.
On the dashboard you can filter by:
Mission template
Form
Volunteer Group
Mission Group
City
Country
Gender
Orientation
Religion
Ethnicity
Volunteer Group vs Mission Group
You can filter by mission groups and by volunteer groups. Here is the difference between these two:
Volunteer groups refer to the groups that volunteers themselves belong to, so filtering here shows hours submitted by those volunteers, regardless of which missions they were assigned to.
Mission groups refer to the groups assigned to missions, so filtering here shows the total hours submitted to missions with that group attached.
Filtering by groups may yield slightly different numbers, depending on whether you want statistics based on missions or on volunteers.
To understand how to best structure groups for reporting, see our Guide to Setting up and Managing Groups and an article on Setting up Groups and Creating Hierarchies.
Volunteering Time
Volunteering time is recorded in years, months, hours, and minutes, with any partial time rounded down to the nearest whole unit. To ensure consistency across the platform, Volunteero standardises each month to 31 days (744 hours).
Here are all the time conversions:
1 hour = 60 minutes
1 day = 24 hours
1 month = 31 days = 744 hours
1 year = 8784 hours
You can hover over any volunteering time chart to see the total number of hours at a glance when needed.
Your Standard Insights Page
If you want to access the Standard Insights page with the set fields, you can find this by clicking on 'view Standard Insights'. Here is an article on what you can find on the Standard Insights Page.
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As always, if you require any further assistance with this, please use the support button in your Staff Dashboard or email us at support@volunteero.org. Our team will be happy to help!