Continuing our xAPI Governance blog series, the second aspect of Governance—after creating rules and processes—is documentation. So, why is keeping records of your captured xAPI data important? In this post, we’ll explain what you need to know when it comes to documentation and share steps to help get you started.

We’re excited to announce the latest Watershed features coming out this month—including fully resizable reports, improved dashboard report display, the new Metric Report, and performance enhancements.

If you want consistent xAPI data, then having processes and rules is critical. They provide a baseline so everyone in your organization knows what’s right and what’s wrong when it comes to data structures, formats, and vocabulary. In this xAPI Governance blog post, we explore the importance of rules and processes and how you can implement them.

xAPI Governance is a set of processes and controls to ensure the quality of your xAPI data. Good governance keeps your data tidy and makes your life easier when reporting on and using your data. This blog series covers everything you need to know, starting with the basics.

Our latest Watershed updates include the ability to zoom in on line charts, improvements to search results, and the ability to hide measures from heatmaps.

Our email subscription feature allows you to sign up users to receive regular emails featuring Watershed reports. This is an extremely powerful and convenient way to keep important data in front of stakeholders. But, there are certain best practices to help ensure not only successful delivery, but also that your stakeholders find value in the reports you share.

From the beginning, Watershed has enabled clients to create beautiful and impactful reporting dashboards to share L&D data across their organizations. We’ve seen our clients create and share thousands of reports, and we’ve been blown away with the positive response. With all of this usage, we’ve collected feedback from our clients on how their Watershed experience could be improved so they can collect and share even more data.

Report Subscriptions allow Watershed users to choose a report to be regularly emailed to stakeholders. With this new feature, people who receive the email don’t need to have Watershed accounts to see the data in the report.

Watershed and TorranceLearning have been friends for a number of years now. TorranceLearning does great consulting work in the Experience API space, encouraging people to tinker with the specification via the xAPI cohorts that provide opportunities to collaborate with like-minded professionals from all over the world on xAPI projects.

True or False: Opening a CSV file in Excel can change the data it contains. If you answered true, then you know how Excel automatically tries to change numbers and dates in your data into a format that it thinks you would prefer.