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Campus service unit board — requests, turnaround and capacity by college and term
One Power BI model that shows which colleges use the service, how fast requests come back, where the team's hours go, and what to hand a new Power BI hire on day one.
Demonstration · Illustrative dataPrepared for SteveSeptember 2026 · Academic year 2025–26
Term
College / unit
Service line
Weekly requests across the semester timeline
Bars = requests received this year · line = same weeks last year · shaded bands = term start / finals
2025–262024–25 (prior)
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What this board answers
Three questions the unit gets asked — with the number
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Campus map — colleges sized by requests
Tile area = requests received · colour = average turnaround vs. the service-line target · click a tile to filter
under half of targettwo-thirdsmost of target used
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Top requesting units
Requests received · average turnaround in days
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Service-line mix and turnaround
Share of requests · avg days vs. target
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Ask the data
Natural-language layer over the same model
Which departments' requests took longest last term?
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Hand-off ready for your new Power BI hire
What ships with the model — and what needs a named owner
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