Boards visualise progress.
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Boards displaythe progress being made towards the Progress Trackers at a project and/or album level. I.e.
stats
KPIs
metrics
outcome indicators
survey results
Using a Board you can log progress in your projects and albums.
In other words, you can see progress being made towards KPIs (outcome indicators, outputs, metrics) that comes from Survey Responses, Stories and Imported Data.
Create progress too
You can also use Boards to create progress updates.
This means you can log and view progress from the same place without needing to jump between different pages.
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Information you can display on a Board
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