March 27 – May 15, 2025

Pricing: FREE ($0 members/$0 nonmembers)

Are you responsible for Postsecondary Data Partnership (PDP) data submission? Join a free, virtual 8-week course to support PDP data submission. 

Designed for the professional responsible for your institution’s PDP data submission, the PDP Data Submission Course will walk participants through the process of submitting the PDP cohort and course data files. The course includes weekly lectures, assignments, and optional office hours with the goal of uploading one year of cohort and course files to the National Student Clearinghouse FTP site. Course participants will also receive resources to use for future PDP data submissions.

The live sessions of this course will be held on Tuesdays at 12:00 p.m. ET in March, April, and May 2025.

Objective

By the end of this course, participants will successfully upload one cohort of the PDP cohort and course data file. In addition, participants will: 

• Articulate the PDP submission process 
• Understand the PDP cohort and course variables
• Map the PDP cohort and course variables against institutional variables identifying differences in coding
• Successfully clear validation errors from those data
• Certify those data files
• Successfully clear or override associated data quality check errors

Format and Time Commitment

• 8 virtual 90-minute lectures, held weekly on Thursdays 12:00 to 1:30 p.m. ET 
• Office hours will also be available
• Weekly dedicated hours of institutional task time outside of virtual sessions (approximately 5-10 hours; specific time will depend on the state of the institution’s data)
• In any given week, participants who do not complete the tasks can stop out of the course cohort. AIR will provide up to 5 consulting hours to help identify and address obstacles. When ready to resume submission, participants will return to the next course cycle to continue the process. There is no limit to the number of times an institution can pause and resume the course. 

Dates

• Virtual lectures will be held on Thursdays 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. ET during March, April, and May of 2025. The dates are: March 27, April 3, April 10, April 17, April 24, May 1, May 8, and May 15
• Office hours are also available  

Qualifications for Participation

The PDP Data Submission course is designed for data providers at PDP institutions who are preparing to submit data to the PDP. To meet the course objective, participants should: 

• Have a PDP FTP user account with experience logging in to it
• Understand who owns different data at the institution and how to contact those individuals, or have access to all institutional data
• Possess basic Excel knowledge and skills (ability to create formulas, sort, filter, etc.) 

Good Practices

To increase the likelihood of success, we encourage the participant to be:

• The institution’s designated "PDP data provider" (or equivalent)
• A member of the institution’s internal PDP working group

Weekly Course Topics

• Week 1: The PDP Submission Process
• Week 2: The PDP Cohort Data File
• Week 3: Creating the PDP Cohort Data File
• Week 4: Submitting the PDP Cohort Data File
• Week 5: The PDP Course Data File
• Week 6: Creating the PDP Course Data File
• Week 7: Submitting the PDP Course Data File
• Week 8: Completing the PDP Submission Process

Notes

• Registration closes March 21 at 11:59 p.m. ET or when capacity is reached. Space is limited. 
• You will receive the Zoom link and course materials before the first live session. 

Accommodations

• If you have any special needs addressed by the American with Disabilities Act, please contact the AIR Education Team at 850-385-4155 or email pdp@airweb.org.

Participant Testimonial

"The course was incredibly timely and invaluable for me. It provided the knowledge and tools we needed to better understand and work with PDP data. The course materials were thorough and immensely helpful, equipping us to develop our own solutions in-house. I’ve already recommended this course to others, as it’s a critical resource for anyone working with PDP data. Thank you for providing such a useful and relevant course!" —Jennifer Garretson, Institutional Research Officer, Kent State University

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