Office of the ADA/Section 504 Coordinator Dashboard

Affirmed – The ADA Coordinator upholds the decision by Employee & Labor Relations, the Resource Center for Persons with Disabilities or the Fundamental Alteration Review Panel.

Average of Days from Appeal Filed to Decision – The average number of calendar days from the date an appeal is filed until the final decision is made.

Consultation – The generic classification for advice the ADA Coordinator provides to units or individuals regarding disability matters.

D2L Courses – The number of D2L Courses being scanned for accessibility by the Digital Accessibility Team through Spartan Ally. D2L Courses include the files, web pages, and other digital materials for a university course stored in the D2L Brightspace learning management system.

Digital Accessibility Liaisons – The number of unit-specific Digital Accessibility Liaisons working with the Digital Accessibility team to ensure unit compliance with digital accessibility standards.

Employee – An individual over whom the university controls the means and manner of work performance. An employee may include faculty, instructors, staff, graduate assistants, teaching assistants, resident assistants, and student employees.

Individual Webpages Scanned – The number of MSU’s individual web pages being scanned for accessibility by the Digital Accessibility Team. Individual web pages are the unique URLs detected by the Silktide website accessibility scanner’s web page crawler.

Location – Unspecified – The location was unspecified in the consultation request.

Off Campus – Locations that are not physically owned or operated by the University but may include University-sponsored programs or activities occurring off-campus, or where off-campus programs/activities could impact on campus or University programs/activities.

On Campus – Any physical location owned or operated by the University or used for educational purposes by MSU.

Online Videos – The number of online videos created or maintained by MSU being scanned for accessibility by the Digital Accessibility Team. Online videos include all known YouTube and Kaltura MediaSpace videos uploaded by MSU employees or service accounts belonging to MSU units.

Reversed – The ADA Coordinator overturns the decision by Employee & Labor Relations, the Resource Center for Persons with Disabilities or the Fundamental Alteration Review Panel.

Self Reviews Completed – The percentage of unit-specific Digital Accessibility Self Reviews completed for the current academic year and submitted by Digital Accessibility Liaisons. Self reviews allow MSU units to review digital accessibility compliance metrics and update university records, and to report changes in digital accessibility compliance priorities and strategy over the course of the year.

Semester – The academic term during which an appeal was submitted. The semester is measured from the first day of class through the day before the next semester’s first day of class.

Spartan Ally – Spartan Ally is a D2L/Brightspace integration that automatically scans course content for common accessibility issues and provides feedback to help faculty and course creators gauge the overall accessibility of their course. Spartan Ally provides step-by-step guidance for fixing issues that may affect student access to content.

Student – A student is a person enrolled or participating in a collegiate-level, University-sponsored program, or course, regardless of program level; full-time or part-time status; credit, degree, or certificate awarded; location; or mode of instruction. A person remains a student until graduation or completion of the program, permanent dismissal, or non-attendance for three full, consecutive semesters (including summer semester). This definition includes a person who is on a leave of absence, withdraws, recess, or graduates after an alleged violation of student conduct policies.

Unit – A Major Administrative Unit, college, department, program, school or other unit within Michigan State University.

Websites Scanned – The number of MSU websites being scanned for accessibility by the Digital Accessibility Team. Websites must be copyrighted by MSU and in most cases are branded. We are not scanning personal websites, hosted websites, collaborations or projects involving multiple universities, or groups such as societies, clubs, associations, etc.

• ADA Appeal and ADA Consultation data is for the 2024-2025 academic year (August 26, 2024, through August 24, 2025).
• Appeals must be filed within 30 calendar days of the date an Accommodation Letter is issued. The ADA Coordinator will issue an appeal decision within 30 business days of receiving the appeal. Both timeframes may be extended for good cause. For example, good cause may be demonstrated when a student or employee is on leave and therefore unavailable to participate in the appeal process.
• Digital Accessibility data is as of September 16, 2025.

Changing Views – This guide provides instructions on how to view, navigate, and interact with the data visuals in the dashboard.

• Enter Full Screen Mode: To expand the dashboard to fill your entire screen, select the Full screen button, which looks like a diagonal arrow, in the bottom right corner.
• Exit Full Screen Mode: To return to the standard view, you can either press the Escape (Esc) key on your keyboard or select the Back to report button, which looks like two arrows pointing inwards, in the bottom right corner.
• Zoom In and Out: To magnify or reduce the size of the dashboard content, use the zoom slider located in the bottom right corner.
• Fit to Page: To automatically resize the dashboard to fit the current window, select the Fit to page button located to the right of the zoom slider.

Navigating Between Dashboard Pages – The dashboard contains multiple pages, also referred to as tiles or slides. You can move between them using the controls at the bottom of the screen.

• Standard Navigation: To move forward to the next page, select the Next page button (>). To go back to the previous page, select the Previous page button (<). These controls are located in the bottom center of the dashboard.
• Full Screen Navigation: When you are in full screen mode, additional navigation arrows appear on the bottom left for your convenience. You can also open a menu by selecting the current page’s name. This menu displays a list of all available pages, allowing you to jump directly to any page you choose.

Using Filters to Explore Data – Filters allow you to customize the data displayed in the charts and graphics. They are located around the main data visuals

• Applying Filters: Select one or more options in a filter category to narrow down the data. When no options are selected, all data is displayed.
• Multiple Selections in One Category: If you select multiple options within a single filter category (e.g., selecting two different semesters), the dashboard will show data that matches any of your selected options.
• Selections Across Different Categories: If you select options from different filter categories (e.g., a "Location" and a "Prohibited Conduct Category"), the dashboard will only show data that meets all of your selected criteria.
• Filter Interactions:
• Applying a filter may limit the available options in other filters if the remaining data does not contain those options.
• If your combination of filters does not match any available data, the graphics will appear blank.
• Resetting Filters: To clear all your selections and return to the default view, select the "Reset All Filters" button in the top right corner of the dashboard.
• Accessibility Note for Filters: Information that is not from the provided sources indicates that you can typically navigate between filter options using the Tab and arrow keys and make selections using the Spacebar. You may want to independently verify this keyboard functionality.

For more information on using the accessibility features of Power BI, please visit the Microsoft Ignite article on the topic.