Your Dashboard

The dashboard is your home base. It adapts to where you are in your teaching practice — a brand-new account looks different from one with active classrooms — so the most relevant actions and information surface without you having to hunt for them.

Sidebar navigation

The left sidebar gives you one-click access to every section of the product: Dashboard, Lessons, Students, Classrooms, Media, Assistant (part of Plus and Studio Pro — see The Assistant), and Marketplace. Lessons, Students, and Classrooms each show a small count badge with your running total in that section — a quick-glance tally, not an alert. Lessons opens your full library — see Your Lessons List.

Near the bottom of the sidebar, just above your name, Help center and Tutorials open this help center and the step-by-step tutorials in a new tab, marked with a small new-window icon, so a lesson you're building stays open where you left it.

Greeting and persona

At the top of the dashboard, a short greeting acknowledges your role and where you are in your journey with the product. The message adapts based on how you described yourself during setup (for example, a speech-language pathologist sees different copy from a classroom teacher). If you want to update your role or background, you can do so in your account settings, under Profile.

The first time you land on the dashboard, you'll be asked which role best describes you. If you signed in with a magic link and we never captured your name, that same step also asks what we should call you, so the greeting uses your real name instead of a generic "Educator."

Onboarding checklist

When you first log in, a short checklist walks you through getting set up: build your first lesson, create a classroom and add your students, and give each student their own code to open the lesson. (Homeschool parents and tutors don't see a separate classroom step.) Each step takes you straight into the thing it describes — "build your first lesson" opens the New lesson dialog right on the dashboard. The final step needs a learner, not just you — it stays open until a student actually completes their first attempt, not merely once you've handed out the codes. Once that happens, the checklist disappears and the space on the page is freed up for everything else.

Every plan can add students and assign lessons, so you can finish the whole checklist on Free. The Free plan includes one classroom with up to 5 students; Plus adds more of both. See Plans.

Needs your attention

This section surfaces moments that warrant a response. Examples include a student who has attempted the same lesson several times with low scores, a lesson that is averaging poorly across an entire class, a student completing a lesson for the first time, or — if you sell content on the marketplace — a new sale or available payout.

Up to five items are shown at once; select See all to expand the full list. Each item has a dismiss button. Dismissed items can reappear after a few days so nothing slips through permanently.

If your account is new and no student activity has been recorded yet, the section stays hidden rather than showing an empty state. It will appear automatically once learners start working.

Pick up where you left off

The Pick up where you left off card shows the lesson you edited most recently, with Resume editing and Preview buttons, and Recent lessons below it lists your latest lessons so you can continue where you stopped. Both show a picture of each lesson's opening scene, the same one you see on the lesson page — see Lesson Previews. A lesson that doesn't have a picture yet, such as one whose opening scene is still empty, falls back to a placeholder instead: a simple colored tile in Recent lessons, or a rough sketch of the opening scene's text, image, and emoji in Pick up where you left off.

Each lesson in Recent lessons shows a warning count if there are validation issues to fix, how many classrooms it is assigned to, and how many attempts students have made recently. If a lesson has warnings, fixing them before the next class session ensures students do not hit broken slides or missing audio. For details on what warnings mean, see Lesson Lifecycle.

Before your first lesson, the card says Build your first lesson instead, with three ways in: Start from scratch, Browse templates, and See how to build a lesson, which opens the Build your first quiz question tutorial. That tutorial starts from a blank lesson and walks through every click, about 10 minutes from start to a lesson that scores.

If you have not created any lessons yet, this area shows a small template gallery instead — a handful of ready-to-edit starting points for common lesson types (a multiple-choice quiz, vocabulary flashcards, matching, sorting into groups, putting steps in order, a reading check, an exit ticket, and an /r/ articulation lesson with picture cards and audio). Each one is a complete lesson — a title card, scored questions, and an ending — so you could assign it as it is, then swap in your own content. Each template ships with a coordinated visual theme — matching colors, fonts, and scene backgrounds — so your copy arrives fully styled and ready to edit. Selecting Use template copies it into your library and opens it in the studio. A template's pictures and sounds are copied into your media library too, so the lesson uses your own copies. The New lesson dialog offers the same templates, each showing a preview of its opening scene, alongside Start from scratch — one click to an empty canvas on the Classic palette, with the name and tags left for later — see Creating a Lesson and Themes and Palettes. Once you have authored your first lesson, the template gallery is replaced automatically by your recent work. For more on building from scratch, see Build Your First Lesson.

Classrooms

The classroom grid shows all of your active classrooms with a count of enrolled students and a link to jump straight into managing assignments, rosters, and attempt data. Creating a classroom is how you bundle a group of students with a set of lessons — see Classrooms and Assignment Workflows for the full walkthrough. If you sync your roster from Google Classroom, that is covered in Google Classroom Roster Sync — that integration is in beta.

Marketplace

The bottom of the dashboard surfaces marketplace options tailored to your account:

• If you publish content for sale — you see a summary of your earnings, available payout balance, and recent sales, with a link to your full publisher dashboard.
• If you have lessons but have not published yet — the dashboard invites you to list your most-used lesson, with a sense of what educators on the platform earn. You can dismiss this if you are not interested; a smaller link replaces it.
• If you have no lessons yet — the dashboard shows three top-rated listings that are popular with educators in your subject area, so you can import ready-made content and assign it right away.

For more on finding and importing lessons from other educators, see Finding Marketplace Lessons. To list your own content, see Publishing to the Marketplace.

Where to go next

• To build a lesson from scratch, read Build Your First Lesson.
• To understand the studio editor, read Studio Overview.
• To assign a lesson to students, read Classrooms and Assignment Workflows.
• To understand how lessons and scenes fit together, read Lessons and Scenes.