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Your teacher dashboard, explained

What each Dashboard tile and card means, where its links go, and what you see before you have any classes.

Written by Kerry Ao

Your Dashboard is the page you land on after logging in. It looks across every class you teach and answers three questions: how are my classes doing overall, what's coming up this week, and which students need me? This article explains each part of the page, what the numbers mean, where each link goes, and what you'll see before you have any classes.

The top band: five headline tiles

The colored band at the top greets you by name, shows today's date, and has a Your Classrooms button that opens your class list. Under it are five tiles. Each tile shows a figure, a small bar showing how your classes spread around that figure, and, when something needs attention, a link that lists the classes behind it. Clicking a class in that list opens the class on the tab where you can act on it.

Active classes

How many of your classes are active. If some are inactive you'll see, for example, "4 of 6". The bar splits active classes into those with a course and those without. If any class has no course yet, a link such as 1 without a course lists them; each one opens that class's Assigned Courses sub-tab so you can add one. When every class has a course, the tile says so.

Students

How many different students you teach. A student in two of your classes is counted once, and the tile notes how many students are in more than one class. With two or more active classes, small bars show each class's size. If a class has no students yet, a link such as 1 class has no students opens that class's roster so you can share the class code.

Course completion

The average share of the course your students have finished, weighted by class size. The bar sorts your classes into three groups: at 75% or more, in between, and under 25%. Under the figure you'll see completion split into lessons and quizzes. If any class is under 25%, a link lists those classes and opens each one on its Overview tab.

Early in the year this number is low for everyone, and that's normal. It's most useful a few weeks in, when one class falling behind the others stands out.

Average quiz score

The average score on the quizzes your students have answered, weighted by how many answers each class has. Classes nobody has answered a quiz in yet are left out instead of counting as zero. The bar groups classes into mastery (80% and up), developing, and needing support (under 55%), and a link lists any class averaging under 55%. The line under the figure tells you how many quiz answers it's based on.

On the Free plan this tile is blurred and reads "Quiz scores are part of paid plans", because scores are part of student performance (see Why is a feature locked or blurred?).

Retention

How often students get review questions right when they come back to material they learned earlier. It's a sign of whether learning is sticking, not only whether it happened. The line under it says how many review answers it's based on and, when there's enough data, roughly how many days after learning. Until students have answered review questions it reads "No review questions answered yet". With fewer than 30 review answers you'll see "Too few to read much into yet", so don't make big decisions from it early on. On the Free plan review results are hidden, so this tile stays at "No review questions answered yet".

Finish setting up your classroom

Until you've finished the five setup steps (profile, first class, students, a course, and a look at the teaching resources), a reminder appears under the tiles showing how many steps are done. Continue setup opens the Onboarding checklist. The X hides the reminder for good; the checklist stays in the sidebar under Onboarding. See Your first week with Intertwined: a setup checklist.

This week

The This week card lists what's planned and what's due in the next seven days across all your classes, grouped by day ("Today", "Tomorrow", then dates).

  • Planned lessons come from your Planner and show the class, the kind of item, and its length. Clicking one opens that class's Planner.

  • Assignments due show the class and a chip with how many students are done, such as "12 of 25 done" or "All done". Clicking one opens that class's Assignments sub-tab.

  • Overdue sits at the top when a recent assignment's due date has passed and some students haven't finished; the chip shows how many are "not done".

The card shows up to eight rows. If there's more, See everything due opens the Assignments page in the sidebar. With nothing planned or due you'll see "Nothing planned or due in the next seven days." followed by a Plan your week link to the Planner. On the Free plan, where the Planner isn't included, the card shows assignment due dates only. More in Tracking assignment progress and completion and The Planner: mapping out lessons on a calendar.

Students to check on

The one card that names people. It lists students across your active classes who could use a nudge, most urgent first, with the reason beside each name:

  • Quiet and a number of days: the student hasn't done anything in the course for 10 days or more. These come first.

  • Score and a percentage: their quiz average is under 55%, based on at least five answers so one bad quiz doesn't flag them. (Paid plans only, since it uses scores.)

  • Not started: the student hasn't begun, while at least two classmates have. This keeps a brand-new class from flagging everyone on day one.

The card shows the first six; the subtitle tells you how many there are in total. Click a student to open their page inside the right class (see Looking at one student's progress in depth). When nobody is flagged you'll see "No one needs a nudge right now. Everyone is active and scoring above 55%."

Since you were last here

A strip at the bottom with four figures covering the time since your last visit to the Dashboard: Students active, Lessons finished, Quizzes finished, and the Most missed topic, with how many wrong answers it drew. Clicking the topic opens Reteach for that class (see Reteach: finding what your class needs to revisit). On the Free plan the topic shows Part of paid plans instead.

The heading tells you where the window starts, for example "Since you were last here, earlier today". Your last visit is remembered in the browser you're using, so the first time you open the Dashboard on a new computer it looks back one week. Reloading the page or coming back within an hour counts as the same visit, so the numbers don't reset every time you click around.

Before you have any classes

A brand-new account shows the welcome band without tiles, the setup reminder, and a No classrooms yet card that says "Create your first class to start seeing reports here." with a Go to Classrooms button. Once you create a class the tiles appear, and they fill in as students join and start working.

Tips

  • Check the Dashboard at the start of the week: This week shows what's due, and Students to check on gives you a short list for quick conversations.

  • Use the tile links as a to-do list. A class "without a course" or with "no students" is one click from being fixed.

  • Inactive classes don't produce check-in flags, so setting last semester's classes to inactive keeps the Dashboard focused on this term.

  • Quiz averages and retention mean more with more answers behind them. Read the small print under each figure before drawing conclusions.

Common questions

It says "Your dashboard didn't load." What should I do?

Click Try again on the yellow bar. If it keeps happening, reload the page, and if that doesn't help, see A page is stuck loading or looks broken.

Why don't my Dashboard numbers match one class's Overview?

The Dashboard combines all your classes and weights each one by its size, while a class's Overview shows that class alone. A small class with a high score moves the Dashboard less than a big one.

Does a student in two of my classes count twice?

Not in the Students tile, which counts each student once. Their work in each class still counts toward that class's completion and scores separately.

Why is "Since you were last here" different on my school computer and my laptop?

Each browser remembers your last visit separately. The numbers are correct for the window shown in the heading.

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