Elevating Academic Administration: A Comprehensive Faculty Dashboard for Tracking Student Evaluations and Research

TL;DR

The paper introduces the USC Faculty Dashboard, a web application that centralizes data for faculty performance, research tracking, and student evaluations to improve academic administration and decision-making.

Contribution

It presents a comprehensive, user-friendly platform tailored for department heads and faculty to monitor and analyze academic and research performance.

Findings

Enhanced data accessibility for faculty and administrators

Streamlined tracking of research grants, publications, and evaluations

Improved decision-making capabilities in academic departments

Abstract

The USC Faculty Dashboard is a web application designed to revolutionize how department heads, professors, and instructors monitor progress and make decisions, providing a centralized hub for efficient data storage and analysis. Currently, there's a gap in tools tailored for department heads to concisely manage the performance of their department, which our platform aims to fill. The USC Faculty Dashboard offers easy access to upload and view student evaluation and research information, empowering department heads to evaluate the performance of faculty members and seamlessly track their research grants, publications, and expenditures. Furthermore, professors and instructors gain personalized performance analysis tools, with full access to their own data as well as curated access to peer data to assess their relative performance. The source code as well as the link to the deployed application can be found at https://github.com/SCCapstone/K3MS.