This tour covers every part of the Teacher Portal: the sidebar on the left, what the padlocks and Soon labels mean, the shortcut for finding any student, your profile, and the tabs inside a classroom. Each stop has one or two lines on what it's for and a link to the article that goes deeper, so you can use this page as a map whenever you're not sure where something lives.
The sidebar at a glance
The sidebar is the same on every page. From top to bottom it has a search box for students, three main pages, four groups that open like drawers, and your account links at the bottom.
Click the Intertwined logo to go back to your Dashboard from anywhere.
The small panel button next to the logo collapses the sidebar into a narrow strip of icons, which gives you more room on a small laptop. Click it again to bring the labels back.
The four groups (Insights, Library, Simulators, Resources) start closed. Click a group's name to open it, or hover over it to see its pages in a pop-out menu without opening it. Intertwined remembers which groups you left open.
Find a student
The box at the very top, Find a student, searches every class you teach at once. Click it, or press ⌘K on a Mac or Ctrl K on Windows and Chromebooks, then start typing a name. Picking a student opens their page inside the right class. It's the fastest way to answer "how is this student doing?" when a parent emails or a student stops by your desk. See Finding any student quickly.
The main pages
Dashboard: your home page. It sums up every class: active classes, students, completion, quiz scores and retention, what's planned and due this week, students worth checking on, and what happened since your last visit. See Your teacher dashboard, explained.
Classrooms: every class you teach or co-teach, as cards or a list, with Create Class in the corner. You can search, filter to active classes, and drag classes into the order you like. See Creating and organizing your classrooms.
Planner: a lesson-planning calendar. Pick a class and lay your course out across dates. The same planner is also inside each classroom under Coursework. See The Planner: mapping out lessons on a calendar.
Insights
Pages that look across your classes. Most have a class picker, so you choose which class (and course) you're looking at.
Assignments: every assignment across every class on one calendar, with who's late and who hasn't started. See Tracking assignment progress and completion.
Gradebook: every student against every lesson and quiz in one grid. See Using the Gradebook.
Reports: build a report on a class or a student, then print or export it. See Reports: exporting and sharing student progress.
Reteach: the sections a class missed most, and who missed them. See Reteach: finding what your class needs to revisit.
Integrity: quiz protections and attempts to copy or paste during quizzes. See Academic integrity: quiz protections and the Integrity page.
Library
Courses: the Course Library, one shelf per subject. Open a course to read it, or use Add to a class. See Browsing the Course Library.
Teaching Toolkit: lesson plans, slides, worksheets and other materials to teach alongside the courses.
Prerequisites: a map of which sections build on which, handy when a class struggles and you want to know what to review first.
Pacing Guides: marked Soon.
More on the Toolkit and Prerequisites in The Teaching Toolkit, Prerequisites, and other teacher resources.
Simulators
Economy, Budget, Investing, Startup and Business each open a page about that simulator (what students do, what you control, and what it teaches) with a Choose a class list. Simulators are set up per class, so picking a class takes you to that class's Simulators tab. Arcade opens the games page, the same one your students see. See The simulators at a glance: which one fits your lesson and The Arcade: teacher guide.
Resources
Student Tools: marked Soon.
Development: opens our professional development and teacher community site inside the portal.
Advocacy: opens our Advocacy Toolkit inside the portal.
What padlocks and Soon labels mean
A small padlock beside a sidebar item means your current plan doesn't include that page. The item stays visible and clickable on purpose: clicking it shows a card that explains what the feature does and how to get it. Nothing breaks and nothing is charged by clicking. On the Free plan you'll see padlocks on Planner, Assignments, Gradebook, Reports, Reteach and the five simulators. Integrity and Arcade never have a padlock because they're free on every plan. See Why is a feature locked or blurred?
A gray Soon label means the page is a placeholder for something we're still building. You can open it, but there's nothing to use yet.
The bottom of the sidebar
Invite Teachers: invite colleagues to Intertwined by email or with your referral link. See Inviting other teachers to Intertwined.
Onboarding: your setup checklist. The percentage beside it shows how far through it you are. See Your first week with Intertwined: a setup checklist.
Your name: opens My profile, where you edit your details, see your plan, reset your password and log out. See Managing your profile, password, and sign-in.
The chat bubble
While you're signed in as a teacher, a chat bubble sits in the bottom corner of every page. Use it to ask a question, report a problem or suggest an idea; it goes to our team. Students don't have the chat bubble, so they'll come to you with questions. See Getting help: chat, bug reports, and feature requests.
Inside a classroom
Open any class from Classrooms and you'll see a header with All Classes (back to your list), the class name, its status, and a Share Class Code button for bringing students in (see Inviting students with your class code or join link). Below the header is a row of tabs:
Overview: how the class is doing as a whole, with completion, scores, activity, and what to reteach. See The classroom Overview: reading your class analytics.
Students: the class list and each student's page. Manage roster is where you create student logins and remove students. See The Students tab: your roster and each student's page.
Gradebook: the same grid as the sidebar Gradebook, for this class. See Using the Gradebook.
Coursework: four sub-tabs. Assignments (it opens here, and it's free on every plan) for creating and tracking work, Planner for this class's calendar, Assigned Courses for adding and removing courses, and Manage Access for choosing which units students can open. See Creating an assignment, Adding a course to your classroom and Manage Access: choosing which units students can open.
Simulators: pick a simulator, set it up for this class, then follow the class and each student. See The Simulators tab in your classroom.
Rankings: leaderboards for course progress and each simulator. See Rankings and leaderboards.
The settings gear at the end of the row: Details (rename or delete the class), Instructors (co-teachers) and Certificates. See Classroom settings: renaming and deleting a class, Co-teaching: adding instructors to a classroom and Course completion certificates.
The Gradebook tab, the Planner and Manage Access sub-tabs, and the Instructors settings need a paid plan; on the Free plan they show a card explaining what they do instead.
Tips
Bookmark app.intertwinedfinance.com/dashboard so you land on your Dashboard in one click.
Most sidebar pages and the classroom tabs ask which class and course you mean. Intertwined remembers your last choice, so you won't keep picking the same class.
Keep the groups you use most open and leave the rest closed. Hovering a closed group still gets you to any page in one click.
If a page you expect isn't there, check the plan row on My profile to confirm which plan you're on.
Common questions
Why does the sidebar look different from my colleague's?
Padlocks depend on each teacher's own plan, and your open or closed groups are remembered per person.
Where did the Curriculum group go?
It was renamed Library. The same pages are inside: Courses, Teaching Toolkit, Prerequisites and Pacing Guides.
How do I log out?
Click your name at the bottom of the sidebar to open My profile, then click Log out.
Can students see the Teacher Portal?
No. Students sign in to the Student Portal, which has its own sidebar with their courses, assignments, simulators and resources. See Getting around the Student Portal.