A live dashboard from your Ethos data, not another spreadsheet

Papercrane connects to the student records, course and section data, and enrollment activity your Ethos integration already exposes, and builds a hosted dashboard that refreshes itself instead of a deck you rebuild every term.

See what access this actually requires

Connect with a key you create in your Ethos settings, in about a minute. Free to connect and ask. Paid plans start when you publish a dashboard. See pricing

Twice a year, someone rebuilds this by hand

Twice a year, on the institution's census date, someone exports headcount, credit hours, and section counts and rebuilds the same enrollment snapshot for the provost, the board, or an IPEDS deadline. If that person is out sick or new to the job, the number gets rebuilt from memory of last term's formulas.

Headcount and credit hours pulled by hand on or near census date
Retention recalculated from last term's spreadsheet, formulas and all
The same three numbers re typed into a deck for the board or provost

What access this actually requires, and where it stops

Connecting Ethos gives Papercrane read access to the data types you choose, student records, course and section data, enrollment and registration activity, through a key you create and can revoke from your own Ethos settings at any time. Nothing is written back to Banner or Colleague, and your institution's data sharing agreements and FERPA obligations stay exactly where they already sit: between your institution and whoever it contracts with, us included, not on a badge on this page. Papercrane queries Ethos on the schedule your dashboard uses and doesn't keep a separate copy of your institution's records beyond what a live dashboard needs to stay current; revoking the key stops every read immediately, on both sides.

If the job is accreditation self study and assessment evidence, Watermark already owns that workflow end to end. If the job is a predictive model that flags which students are likely to leave before they do, that's Civitas Learning's, built on institution specific machine learning we don't do. Papercrane is worth connecting when the job is turning the Ethos data you already have into a dashboard your cabinet, your board, or your accreditor can open without you rebuilding it by hand.

The census date, locked automatically

Every downstream enrollment number inherits from whoever pulled the export on the correct day. Point a dashboard at your Ethos enrollment data, set it to refresh on your institution's own calendar, and the count is captured the moment census date happens instead of whenever someone remembers to run the report.

Fall 2026 census · October 12

Example institution, not real data

4,812

Headcount

61,340

Credit hours

Captured automatically, 6:00 AM that morning

Set once. It captures itself on the date that matters, whoever is or isn't in the office that week.