# 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 a role-aware dashboard at **/panel/dashboard** that automatically renders a teacher control centre for staff and a clean, focused upload-and-queue page for students - all configurable from one settings screen. ## 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 from one settings screen Open **Settings → Organization → School settings → Dashboards** and pick exactly which widgets each side sees. Don't run a quota system? Turn off the quota-requests card on the teacher view. Don't use the bulletin? Hide it on both. Want students to skip the Academy CTA? One checkbox.** The system always keeps at least one widget enabled so the dashboard never goes blank, and ships sensible defaults so a fresh School account works on day one. - Teacher widgets:** file upload, queue, bulletin, help, status cards, pending users, quota requests, pending approvals - **Teacher status cards:** next finish, idle, paused, ongoing, attention, pending, offline - **Student widgets:** file upload, queue, bulletin, academy, quick links, admins, help ## Quick links and a curated "who to ask" list Two admin power tools that turn the student dashboard from a generic landing page into something tailored to *your* classroom. ### Highlighted + regular links Big coloured buttons or a compact list, each with an FA icon. ### Curate the contact list Show every teacher and admin, or hand-pick a few. ## See what students see - before you save Hit the **Preview** button in settings and SimplyPrint opens a showcase-mode render of the student (or teacher) dashboard, exactly as a learner would see it. Change a widget, preview again, 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 On a School account, non-teacher users get auto-redirected from the default landing page (printers / files) straight to **/panel/dashboard**. No "where do I click?" moment for first-time students - they open the panel and immediately see the upload zone. Teachers keep the standard landing flow. A dedicated sidebar entry (** Dashboard) is added for both roles, so anyone can jump back to the dashboard from anywhere in the panel. ## 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 dashboard (teacher or student) has its own master **Enabled** toggle in **Settings → Organization → School settings → Dashboards**. Turn one or both off and users on that role will land on the standard printers / files page instead. ### 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. In **Settings → Organization → School settings → Dashboards**, hit the **Preview** button next to either dashboard. SimplyPrint opens a showcase-mode render of that dashboard with your live widget configuration, exactly as the chosen role would see it. ### 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. ## 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/)