The teacher, student and admin dashboards: a classroom-ready landing page

When a class of 30 students opens SimplyPrint, they shouldn't see the same screen as the teacher running the lab. On the School plan, SimplyPrint ships two reserved dashboards inside the Custom Dashboards feature - a Student dashboard and a Teacher dashboard - and automatically shows each person the right one when they open /panel/dashboard: a focused upload-and-queue page for students, a control centre for teachers, and the same teacher view with a settings shortcut for admins and partners.

This article gives you the full tour: what each dashboard does, who sees what, where it lives in the panel, and how to configure it. Each section has a deeper-dive article linked at the end if you want to go further.

Table of contents

• Who sees which dashboard
• Where to find the dashboard
• The student dashboard at a glance
• The teacher dashboard at a glance
• The admin / partner variant
• The shared bulletin board
• Configuring everything
• Plan and feature requirements
• Related articles

Who sees which dashboard

SimplyPrint picks the dashboard for you based on the role on your school account. There's no role switcher and no separate sign-in.

• Students see the student dashboard. On a School account, every user who is not a teacher and not an admin is treated as a student by default. There is no separate "student" rank to assign.
• Teachers see the teacher dashboard. A user is a teacher when the Teacher checkbox on their account row is ticked, or when they hold a rank that grants teacher behaviour.
• Admins and account partners see the same surface as the teacher dashboard, plus a direct Settings page shortcut in the help card. The org owner is always treated as an admin.

The decision is made server-side at every page load, so as soon as a user is promoted to teacher, they get the new dashboard on their next page reload.

Where to find the dashboard

/panel/dashboard is the unified Custom Dashboards page, reached from the Dashboard entry in the left sidebar. On a School account, the Student and Teacher dashboards are reserved dashboards that live here alongside any custom dashboards you build.

Once a reserved dashboard is enabled, everyone with that role lands on it automatically: students open the Student dashboard, teachers open the Teacher dashboard, so nobody has to ask "where do I click first?". You can also open one directly at /panel/dashboard/student or /panel/dashboard/teacher, then switch to edit mode to change it.

The student dashboard at a glance

The student view is built around the three things a student actually needs: upload a file, see their queue, know who to ask for help.

In the left column: a greeting, a big drag-and-drop file upload zone, and the student's queued prints. In the right column: the classroom bulletin board, an Academy CTA, the teacher-curated quick links, a list of teachers and admins to contact, and a help card.

Read more in The student dashboard explained.

The teacher dashboard at a glance

The teacher view is built around the classroom workflow: approve new students, grant quota when someone runs out, see which printers need attention.

In the left column: a greeting, pending student approvals, pending print approvals, the quota requests inbox, the classroom bulletin and the live school queue. In the right column: fleet status cards (next finish, idle, paused, attention, offline, ongoing, pending), a file upload card and a help card.

Read more in The teacher dashboard explained.

The admin / partner variant

Admins, account partners and the org owner see the same surface as the teacher dashboard. The only difference is a small Settings page link in the help card that drops them straight into the School settings, where they can enable or disable each reserved dashboard and jump to the Dashboard builder.

If you've added a partner to your school account, they'll see this view automatically.

The shared bulletin board

The bulletin is a teacher-to-student broadcast that shows up on both dashboards. Teachers post, students read. Use it for printer outages, project deadlines, open-lab hours, a new build plate that just arrived, or anything else the whole class needs to know.

Students can't author or edit bulletin posts, which keeps the board a clean announcement channel rather than another chat feed.

Read more in Posting and managing the classroom bulletin board.

Configuring everything

Configuration happens in two places. You enable or disable each dashboard in Settings -> Organisation -> School settings, and you tailor everything else in the Dashboard builder.

In School settings you get an Enable the student dashboard checkbox, an Enable the teacher dashboard checkbox, and an Open the Dashboard builder button. While a reserved dashboard is disabled, only dashboard managers can see it, so you can stage and edit it before students or teachers ever land on it. Enable it when you're ready to show it to the class.

Everything else lives in the Dashboard builder. Open /panel/dashboard, open the reserved Student or Teacher dashboard, and switch to edit mode to:

• Add, remove and rearrange the cards on each dashboard (file upload, queue, bulletin, status cards, quick links, and so on)
• Choose which status cards the teacher sees (next finish, idle, paused, attention, offline, ongoing, pending)
• Add quick-link buttons that show up on the student dashboard
• Hand-pick which teachers and admins appear in the student's "Your teachers" card

Two articles cover this in detail:

• Setting up your school dashboards covers the enable checkboxes and editing the reserved dashboards in the builder.
• Customising dashboard links and the "who to ask" list covers the quick-links cards and the admin selector.

Plan and feature requirements

The dual teacher / student dashboard is exclusive to the School plan. Several related features also live on the School plan and feed into the dashboards.

If you're on Free, Basic, Pro or Print Farm, the dashboard isn't available — but you can still upgrade to School to unlock it. The full plan comparison lives on the pricing page.

Related articles

• Setting up your school dashboards
• The student dashboard explained
• The teacher dashboard explained
• Posting and managing the classroom bulletin board
• Customising dashboard links and the "who to ask" list
• Custom Dashboards: build your own panel landing pages

Updated on: 11/07/2026