Tableau for Teaching: Introduction

Contents

What is Tableau for Teaching?
Why Should I Teach Tableau?
Who is Eligible?
What is Provided?

What is Tableau for Teaching?

Tableau Academic Program equips educators with free learning resources, curricula, and software to enable the future generation with data skills. By curating and producing learning and teaching content for educators, we hope to encourage educators around the world to use Tableau for Teaching to equip all students with data skills.

Why Should I Teach Tableau?

Data skills are essential for the next generation of workers and business leaders. With thousands of customers around the world, including Whole Foods, Texas Rangers and UN World Food Programme, Tableau is a skill in high demand across industries and departments. Tableau Academic Program seeks to provide access to instructors and students to bridge the data equity gap and prepare the next generation of data workers with valuable analytical skills needed to thrive in today’s data-driven world. Interested to learn about why other schools are teaching Tableau in the classroom? Check out some of our academic success stories. 

Who is Eligible?

To qualify for the Tableau for Teaching, you must be an active educator and/or conduct non-commercial academic research at an accredited, degree-granting academic institution. For more details on who can access Tableau for Teaching, please refer to the “Requesting a license” section of the Tableau for Teaching: Getting Access to Tableau article. Terms and conditions can be reviewed under the Additional Terms and Conditions section of the online license request forms. 

Non-teachers, including administrators or staff members working at the institution, who want to use Tableau for business intelligence, measurement and/or assessment work, institutional research, consulting, or professional development do not qualify for this program. If you are interested in using Tableau for these purposes, please contact our sales team through this link.    

What is Provided?

The following products are available free-of-charge, unless indicated as discounted, for those eligible for the Tableau for Teaching program. Instructors can request a license through our Tableau for Teaching website. Details on how this process works is available through the Tableau for Teaching: Getting Access to Tableau article.

• Software
  • Tableau Desktop: The primary software for analysis. Connect to any data in just a few clicks and explore new perspectives with powerful analytics. Create live visualizations and interactive dashboards. Desktop is available for individual and course software requests. This software is recommended for classes teaching data analytics. Note: This product will not work on Chromebook, Linux, iPad, etc. If your students are using these types of devices you should request a Tableau Cloud site.
  • Tableau Prep Builder: Prep Builder transforms data for analysis. You can combine and clean data and operationalize a data flow. Once data has been cleaned, it can be connected to Tableau Desktop for analysis. Prep Builder is available for individual and course software requests. This software is recommended for classes teaching data cleaning and preparation for analysis.
  • Tableau Cloud: A fully hosted, cloud-based, enterprise-grade version of Tableau. Using Tableau Cloud, students can explore data sets and create visualizations directly on the web, making this ideal for classes using Chromebook or iPad. Along with access to a cloud-based version of Tableau products, students can download a copy of Tableau Desktop and Tableau Prep Builder to work offline on their own machines. This is recommended for classes using secure data that needs to be protected or for K-12 users that have data collection concerns. Note: This product requires some level of configuration to get started and yearly maintenance. Please review Tableau for Teaching: Tableau Cloud for additional information.
  • Tableau Public: A free data visualization publishing platform that empowers anyone to see, explore, understand, and publicly share workbooks online — only publicly available data should be shared on this platform. The Public platform gives students an opportunity to use Tableau after graduation with its own version of Tableau Desktop. This platform is recommended for publishing class work for students to start building a portfolio of their work.

• Learning & Teaching
  • Salesforce Trailhead is our free online learning platform and the front door to the Salesforce ecosystem, including Tableau.
  • Tableau eLearning is available free-of-charge to educators that have been verified through Tableau for Teaching. This platform offers over 20 hours of self-paced Tableau product training.
  • Tableau Webinars is a collection of curated webinars from Tableau. Learn how companies around the world are taking advantage of analytics to drive better decision making.
  • Tableau Help is a collection of help articles located on the Tableau website. These articles cover everything from Tableau Basics to Tableau Server Administration.
  • Tableau Knowledge Base is a curated collection of “Top Resources” for each Tableau product that includes relevant Tableau Help articles and other Technical Support articles that include information troubleshooting steps.
  • Tableau for Teaching Curriculum is a collection of resources to make sure you are ready on day 1 to teach Tableau in your classroom.
  • Tableau Desktop Specialist Exam Discount is available to educators that have been verified through Tableau for Teaching. A 20% discount off the full exam price is offered to educators for their own learning or for your students by incorporating it into the class. Email tft@tableau.com for more information.

• License Types
  
  • Individual Instructor License: Instructors can request a one-year, renewable Tableau license for each year that they are teaching Tableau in their courses. Request a license by completing our request form.
  • Student Course License: Student course licenses are termed licenses valid for the duration of a specific course, as specified on the request form. Instructors are issued a single key with enough activations to accommodate the number of students in their course. The instructor is responsible for distributing the single key to the entire class and the students are required to download and install Tableau on their personal computers. Request a student course license through our request form.
  • Tableau Cloud Site: Instructors can request a Tableau Cloud Site as the site owner and site administrator and subscribe up to 100 students to the available seats via email addresses. This offering is in the cloud and therefore works on any device (Chromebook, Linux, iPad, etc.). Request a Tableau Cloud Site through our request form.
  • Lab License: Academic lab licenses are for use in computer environments that only students and instructors have access to and are valid for one year. Instructors are issued one lab license with enough activations for all of the computers in the lab environment. Request the lab license through our request form. Please note: these lab licenses work best to support persistent environments on virtual or physical machines.

If you need additional help, follow along with the Tableau for Teaching: Getting Access to Tableau help article.