Inspire enables users to find or create groups of students based on certain criteria available in the filter list. Filters appear in the application across Advanced Search, Groups, and Reports.
Default filter categories include the following:
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Default Filters Table
The table below includes the name, category, and definition of all default filters in Inspire. Based on your institution's configuration, you may have additional filters not defined in this chart.
Name of Filter | Category in Advanced Search | Filter Definition |
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Active/Inactive | Prioritized filter outside of advanced search. At the top of the page. | Active: Currently enrolled in a live term. Inactive: Incoming admitted students not yet enrolled for a future term, Incoming admitted students enrolled in a future term, Students who were previously registered for a section in a term that was active in the last 4 calendar years but not currently enrolled in a live term. |
Degree | Academic Information | Credential sought by the student in the academic career term. Example: certificate, associate’s bachelor’s, etc. |
Department | Academic Information | Identifies the student’s Department designation as Department. Is defined in institution data. Example: Deeper dive into college, psychology department within the College of Arts and Sciences |
Enrolled Next Term | Academic Information | Students who have or have not enrolled in courses for the next term(s). |
Full-time vs. Part-time | Academic Information | Breakdown of students by full-time or part-time status. Undergraduate students: 12+ credit hours. Graduate students: 9+ credit hours. Options: FT, PT, N/A (when the student is unenrolled) |
Undergraduate Type | Academic Information | Indicates an undergraduate student’s admit type (what they were most recently admitted as). Options: FTIC, Transfer, Readmit, High School Dual Enrollment |
Major | Academic Information | The major a student has declared during their current academic career. |
GPA | Academic Information | Cumulative GPA for students enrolled in current term. |
Academic Standing | Academic Information | Student's academic standing in the current term. (Institution values are mapped to Civitas values in filter: Good Standing, On Probation, On Warning, Dismissal, Prevent Registration) |
College | Academic Information | Identifies the student’s College designation as College is defined in institution data. |
Minor | Academic Information | The minor a student has declared during their current academic career. |
Academic Level | Academic Information | Academic level or grouping typically associated with student program enrollments and term, often referred to as Academic Career. Typically includes Graduate and Undergraduate, with programs such as MBA rolling up under Graduate. (UG, GR) |
Registered Campus | Academic Information | Institution-provided name for the campus identified as the registered (home) campus for each student in their academic career term. This is generally where the student takes the majority of their classes. |
Home Campus | Academic Information | Home Campus can be defined as: 1. Where the school has assigned the student (this should be mutually exclusive and a student should only have 1 home campus) 2. Where the student is taking the most classes this term. It's common for schools to assign a student to a home campus to start with but once they start taking classes, they may actually be at another campus more often. Institution can determine which definition they choose based on their preferences and quality of their Home Campus data. |
Prediction Score | Actionable Analytics | This is a way to filter based on our definition of “Very Low” “Low” “Moderate” “High” or “Very High,” as part of persistence prediction. |
Assigned Advisor | Advising | Indicates a specific advisor that is assigned to a caseload of students at the institution. |
Student has met with advisor or scheduled time to meet with advisor | Advising | Indicates a student who has met or scheduled time with an advisor using the system. |
Hold Type | Advising | Indicates the holds that may be attached to the student in the current term. |
Financial Aid | Advising | Indicates the types of financial aid assistance that student is receiving in the current term if they are enrolled. Self Pay, Loan, Pell Grant, Other Grant, Scholarship, State Loans, Work Study, Other Financial Aid, GI Bill |
Advisor Type | Advising | Indicates the type of advisor assigned to that particular student. Advisor types can be configured by the institution. Examples: Faculty Advisor, Major Advisor, Student Success Coach, etc. |
Student Modality | Advising | Indicates the primary modality in which the student takes courses (online, in person, blended). |
Current Address | Advising | Search based on country and state |
Permanent Address | Advising | Search based on country and state |
Alert Type | Alerts | Indicates whether an alert raised for a student is a "checkpoint" alert or "general" alert |
Alert Status | Alerts | Indicates whether an alert is open or resolved by an advisor or faculty member |
Course Number | Courses | Indicates the institutions course number for a course taken (current, past, future) |
Grade | Courses | Indicates the grade in which a student received in a particular course. |
LMS Logins (if mapping LMS) | Courses | Number of times a student has logged into a section via the LMS in an in-progress term. |
Credits | Courses | Indicates the number of credits attached to a course. |
Term | Courses | Indicates the academic term a course has taken place. |
Course Type | Courses | Indicates where the course was taken and whether it is credit bearing: abroad, transfer, at institution, AP, non-credit course, etc. |
Section ID | Courses | Section ID associated with a Course. |
Age | Demographics | Student's current age in years, presented in ranges. |
Gender | Demographics | Student’s gender: male, female or unknown. Unknowns are any student whose gender isn't 'M' or 'F'; some institutions have other labels that we don't recognize. |
Ethnicity | Demographics | Is Hispanic or is not Hispanic. |
Race | Demographics | White, African American, Asian, Native American, Two or more, Unknown |
Military | Demographics | Binary flag that identifies whether a student is affiliated with the military. Typically, affiliation includes more than just an active duty individual. This also includes individuals such as those with Veteran status as well as children, spouses, etc. of the military individual themselves. Options: Affiliated or Not Affiliated |
Student Athlete | Demographics | Identifies if they are a student athlete. Options Y/N |
Varsity Sport | Demographics | Identifies which sport/team the student plays at the institution |
Start Term/Year | Progress to Degree | Identifies the first term and year of enrollment at the institution for each student AND for their current academic career (e.g. if a student was an undergraduate student and now is a graduate student, this will display start term for their graduate career). |
Credits Earned | Progress to Degree | Cumulative count of credits earned across all enrolled terms including credits that don't count towards the student's GPA (e.g. Pass/Fail courses) |
Completed Terms | Progress to Degree | Cumulative count of terms completed by the student (calculated by Civitas). Completed terms include all terms a student was enrolled past the census date and received a passing grade in at least 1 hours (i.e. did not fail or withdraw from all courses). |
Transfer Credits | Progress to Degree | Cumulative count of transfer credits earned at another institution. This includes credits transferred in upon entry as well as transfer credits earned at another institution. |
Apply to Graduate | Progress to Degree | Identifies that the student has applied to graduate within the institution's system. |
Expected Grad Term/Year | Progress to Degree | Identifies the term and year the student is likely to graduate in their current academic career. |
Last login date | System Activity | The last time the student logged into the Inspire application. |
Last appointment | System Activity | The last time a student met with an advisor using the Inspire application. |
Next appointment | System Activity | The next time a student scheduled time to meet with an Advisor using the Inspire application. |
Date account created | System Activity | The date the student account was created in the Inspire application. |