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Setting up your school dashboards

Setting up your school dashboards


The Student and Teacher dashboards work out of the box on a School account, but every card and link is yours to tune. Enabling and disabling them happens in Settings -> Organisation -> School settings; everything else - which cards show, the teacher's status tiles, quick links and the "who to ask" list - is edited in the Dashboard builder on the reserved Student and Teacher dashboards.


The dashboards live on the School plan. You need the Manage school settings permission to enable or disable them, and dashboard-management access to edit them in the builder.


Table of contents

  • Enabling or disabling each dashboard
  • Opening a dashboard in the builder
  • Choosing which cards appear
  • Picking teacher status cards
  • Staging a dashboard before students see it
  • What students and teachers see right after a change
  • Defaults you can rely on
  • Related articles


Enabling or disabling each dashboard

Go to Settings -> Organisation and expand the School settings card. Near the bottom you'll find the Student & teacher dashboards section: a short note explaining that the dashboards now live in the Dashboard builder, two Enabled checkboxes and an Open the Dashboard builder button.


The Student and teacher dashboards section in School settings


If you can't see the School settings card at all, your account isn't on the School plan, or your rank doesn't have the Manage school settings permission. Ask your account admin to grant it, or upgrade to the School plan on the pricing page.


Each dashboard has its own Enabled checkbox:


  • Enable the student dashboard shows it to students.
  • Enable the teacher dashboard shows it to teachers.


The two are independent. Run both (the typical classroom setup), run only one, or leave both off while you build them.


While a reserved dashboard is disabled, only dashboard managers can see it. That's deliberate: it lets you stage and edit the dashboard in the builder before any student or teacher lands on it. Disabling a dashboard simply hides it from that role until you switch it back on - enable it when you're ready to show it to the class.


Opening a dashboard in the builder

Click Open the Dashboard builder (or open Dashboard in the left sidebar). This is the unified Custom Dashboards page at /panel/dashboard. Open the reserved Student dashboard or Teacher dashboard, then switch to edit mode to change its cards, layout and links.


A reserved dashboard open in the Dashboard builder


You can also jump straight to one at /panel/dashboard/student or /panel/dashboard/teacher.


The reserved dashboards can't be deleted - they're always there for the Student and Teacher roles - but everything inside them is editable.


Choosing which cards appear

In edit mode, each dashboard is a grid of cards. Add the ones you want, remove the ones you don't, and drag them into the layout that suits your class.


Teacher dashboard cards


  • File upload
  • School queue
  • Bulletin board
  • Help card
  • Status cards
  • Pending users
  • Quota requests
  • Pending print approvals


Student dashboard cards


  • File upload
  • Queue
  • Bulletin board
  • Academy CTA
  • Quick links
  • Teachers and admins
  • Help card


For example, if you're not using the quota system, remove the Quota requests card from the teacher dashboard so it doesn't take up space. If you don't want a bulletin board, remove the Bulletin card from both dashboards.


Picking teacher status cards

The teacher dashboard's status row is a strip of compact printer-status tiles. Each tile counts a slice of the fleet:


  • Next finish - the printer with the soonest finish time
  • Idle - printers ready but not currently printing
  • Paused - paused print jobs
  • Attention - printers needing a user action
  • Offline - printers that aren't reachable
  • Ongoing - currently printing
  • Pending - queue items waiting for a printer


Show or hide each tile from the status card's settings in the builder. Hide the ones that aren't useful for your classroom - a single-room lab probably doesn't need both Idle and Pending taking up two tiles.


Staging a dashboard before students see it

There's no separate preview button anymore. The builder is a live, what-you-see-is-what-you-get editor, so the layout you arrange is exactly what the class gets. To try changes safely, leave the dashboard disabled while you edit it: only dashboard managers can see a disabled dashboard, so you can arrange cards, add links and check the result without a student or teacher seeing a half-finished page. Enable it once it looks right.


Staging with the Enabled checkbox off is much faster than logging out, logging in as a test student, and remembering to log back in as yourself.


What students and teachers see right after a change

Changes to a dashboard's layout apply as soon as you save them in the builder. The next time a student or teacher loads /panel/dashboard, they'll see the new layout; anyone who already had it open sees it on their next refresh or navigation. Toggling a dashboard on or off in School settings takes effect the same way.


There's no broadcast notification when you rearrange a dashboard - the change just shows up. If you're rolling out a big rearrangement, post a heads-up in the classroom bulletin so students know what's new.


Defaults you can rely on

A fresh School account ships with sensible defaults:


  • Both reserved dashboards present, each with a sensible default card layout
  • All teacher status tiles visible
  • An empty quick-links list (so that card doesn't appear on the student dashboard until you add at least one link)
  • The teachers / admins card shows every teacher and admin on the account by default


Flip the Enabled checkboxes in School settings whenever you're ready to show a dashboard to the class, and tune the cards in the builder as you learn what your class needs.


Updated on: 11/07/2026

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