# Teacher & student dashboard for 3D printing classrooms **Minimum Plan:** School Give every teacher and every student the right view of your 3D printers. SimplyPrint's School plan ships a dual-mode dashboard with a teacher control centre (pending approvals, quota requests, fleet status) and a student landing page (file upload, queue, bulletin board, quick links, academy) - configurable per widget, no code required. **Categories:** organization *One URL, two surfaces, zero confusion* ## Teacher & student dashboard When a class of 30 students logs into SimplyPrint, they shouldn't see the same screen as the teacher running the lab. SimplyPrint's School plan ships two reserved role dashboards inside the Dashboard builder at **/panel/dashboard** - a teacher control centre for staff and a clean, focused upload-and-queue page for students - all built from configurable cards, no code required. ## Built for K-12, universities, libraries and makerspaces The teacher / student split is part of the School plan - the same plan trusted by schools running everything from a single classroom printer to a full lab of fleets. Students get a friendly landing page they can use without training; teachers get a control centre with everything they need to approve, monitor and unblock the class. ## The teacher dashboard: everything you need to run the lab The teacher view is built around the classroom workflow: approve new students, grant quota when someone runs out, see which printers need attention, broadcast a message to the whole class - all without digging through menus.** What's on it:** pending approvals (one-click approve / deny), quota requests inbox (grant, reply, notify), fleet status cards (next finish, idle, paused, attention, offline), pending print approvals surfaced on the dashboard, school queue, bulletin board. ## The student dashboard: simple enough for day one Students don't need a fleet overview - they need to upload a file, see their queue, and know who to ask for help. The student dashboard puts exactly those things front and centre.** What's on it:** a big drag-and-drop upload zone that goes straight to the queue, the student's own queued / running / finished prints, teacher-curated quick links, a contact list of teachers and admins with name + photo + email + phone, the bulletin board (read-only), and a SimplyPrint Academy shortcut. ## A shared bulletin board for the whole class Teachers write, students read. Use the bulletin to announce a printer being down, a homework deadline, a new build plate, the day's open lab hours - whatever the class needs to know. The board lives on both dashboards, so a message posted by a teacher shows up the next time a student opens the panel. Rich text, scheduled visibility, multiple messages pinned at once - it's a tiny CMS designed for the classroom, not a glorified *Slack* channel. ## Configure both dashboards in the Dashboard builder Each reserved dashboard is built from cards, exactly like a custom one. Open the **Student dashboard** (**/panel/dashboard/student**) or the **Teacher dashboard** (**/panel/dashboard/teacher**), hit **Edit**, and add, remove, reorder or reconfigure cards from the palette. Don't use the bulletin board? Remove it from both. Want a different set of shortcuts for students? Edit the quick-links card.** The two master Enabled** toggles stay in **Settings → Organization → School settings**, next to a shortcut into the builder. Fresh School accounts start from sensible reserved-dashboard templates, so both sides work on day one. - **Teacher dashboard:** printer status, the print queue, an approvals to-do (print-queue approvals, pending members and quota requests in one place), file upload, the bulletin board and quick links - **Student dashboard:** file upload, the print queue, the bulletin board, quick links and an admin directory (their teachers and admins) ## Quick links and a curated "who to ask" list Two power tools that turn the reserved student dashboard from a generic landing page into something tailored to *your* classroom. Both are cards you configure in the builder on the reserved **Student dashboard**. ### Highlighted + regular links Big coloured buttons or a compact list, each with an FA icon - edited on the quick-links card. ### Curate the contact list Show every teacher and admin, or hand-pick a few - set on the admins card. ## See what students see - before you save Open the reserved **Student** (or **Teacher**) dashboard and you're looking at exactly what that role sees - the builder renders it live with your real cards and data as you edit. While a dashboard is still disabled, only you and other dashboard managers can open it, so you can stage and preview the whole thing before you flip the **Enabled** toggle and reveal it to the class. Change a card, watch it update, save when it looks right. No more "let me log out and log back in as a test student". ## Students land on the dashboard the moment they log in When a student's reserved dashboard is enabled, the **Dashboard** entry (**) leads their sidebar - and because the first visible sidebar item is the account's landing page, they open the panel straight onto their upload zone. No "where do I click?" moment for first-time students, and teachers get the same treatment for the reserved teacher dashboard. If both reserved dashboards are disabled, the Dashboard entry drops lower and greys out - still reachable, but never forced as anyone's home page - so those users land on the standard printers / files view instead. ## How a quota request actually flows, end to end The student-to-teacher quota loop is four steps:** - Student hits "Request more quota"** from their dashboard - either from the quota widget or the print-blocked modal when they hit their cap mid-job. - **Teacher sees it in their inbox widget** on the teacher dashboard - thumbnail, current usage, the student's note about why they need more. - **Teacher grants (with optional note) or denies (with reason)** in one click. They can grant the exact amount the student asked for, or override it up or down. - **Student gets a notification** in-app and by email, with the teacher's note attached. If denied, the reason text is included so the student knows what to do next. The whole loop usually takes a teacher under 30 seconds per request. Pair with [school quotas and balance](/features/organisation-management/education) for the full picture. ## Frequently asked questions ### Who counts as a "teacher" vs a "student"? On a School account, every user is either a teacher (the teacher flag is set on their company membership) or a student (every other non-admin user). There's no separate student role to assign - if someone isn't a teacher or admin, they're a student by default. Admins and account partners are treated as teachers for dashboard routing. ### Can I turn the teacher / student dashboard off entirely? Yes. Each reserved dashboard (teacher or student) has its own master **Enabled** toggle in **Settings → Organization → School settings**. While a dashboard is disabled, only dashboard managers can still open it (so you can stage and edit it first) - normal students or teachers on that role won't see their role dashboard until you switch it back on. ### Do students see other students' prints in the queue? The dashboard's queue widget shows the student's own queued items. The full school queue (with everyone's items) lives at **/panel/queue** and is permission-gated - so you control whether students can see only their own prints or the whole class. ### Can students post to the bulletin board? No - the bulletin is a teacher-to-student broadcast. Students see messages but can't author or edit them. This keeps it a clean announcement channel, not another social feed. ### What happens when a student requests more print quota? The request appears in the **Quota requests** widget on the teacher dashboard (also embedded in settings). A teacher can grant a specific amount, deny it, reply with a message, and optionally notify the student. Resolved requests collapse into a history list so the inbox stays focused on what's pending. ### Does this need SSO? No. The dashboard works with any sign-in method - native SimplyPrint accounts, Google sign-in, or full SSO (SAML / Unilogin). SSO is a separate School-plan benefit that lets you import classes automatically; the dashboard works either way. ### Can I preview the student dashboard without logging in as a student? Yes. Open the reserved **Student** (or **Teacher**) dashboard from the Dashboard page - the builder renders it live with your real card configuration and data, exactly as that role would see it. While it's still disabled, only you and other dashboard managers can open it, so you can preview and stage the whole dashboard before enabling it for the class. ### Which plan includes it? The teacher / student dashboard is exclusive to the **School** plan (marketed as **Education**). It's bundled with the wider classroom feature set - quotas, queue approval, Academy custom courses, SSO and more - at no extra cost. See the [pricing page](/pricing) for full School plan details. ## Want to build your own dashboards too? The teacher and student dashboards are reserved, ready-made views. On top of them, the School plan includes the full custom dashboard builder - drag cards for printer status, statistics, the queue, maintenance and more onto a grid, and share each dashboard with your whole account or a specific group. Schools get 5 custom dashboards on top of the reserved teacher and student ones. ## Part of the bigger SimplyPrint for schools picture The dashboard is one piece of a complete classroom platform: print quotas, queue approval, classes (manual or SSO-imported), an Academy you can tailor, role-based permissions, and printer monitoring built for a lab full of mixed printers. See the full [SimplyPrint for schools](/schools) page to explore everything the School plan includes, or read about how SimplyPrint handles [multiple users on the same printers](/features/multiple-users). --- **Learn more:** [Help Article](https://help.simplyprint.io/en/article/the-teacher-student-and-admin-dashboards-a-classroom-ready-landing-page-1ooxwkz/)