Generating Summary Reports for a Subset of Courses #245
Description
During the Graduate Attributes Committee meeting today (Sept 6), the idea came up (from @mattminnick and others) that it would be nice to be able to see the summary statistics on the graduate attributes with a subset of the measured courses. Current the summary attribute reports, like the first figure in the short summary report for each program, aggregate the data for all courses in a program. We will fix the problem of aggregating ENG 1 data when the ENG 1 courses are unmapped, but departments are still interested in seeing the influence of removing/adding different sets of measured courses. For instance, CAS summarizes their data for all courses, but then also has separate summaries for courses grouped by different themes, like all design courses, all theory courses, etc.
The proposal was made to change the measurement map and then see the consequences on the summary statistics. However, this could be problematic since the measurement map is the basis for tracking which courses need to be measured in a given year. It could cause problems if a course is removed, and then someone forgets to put it back in.
If we add this enhancement in the future, we'll need a filter that is specific for generating the report. The report generation can use an identified subset of courses, but the measurement map is unchanged.
There does not seem to be a pressing need for this report, but I thought I would summarize what I saw as the requirements for it, while it was fresh in my head.