.. _New Instructor Dashboard Experience:

New Instructor Dashboard Experience
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The Instructor Dashboard has been rebuilt using modern web technologies, enabling
dynamic pages and cleaner designs. Along with the visual and technology changes,
some tools have been reorganized or renamed for clarity.

.. figure:: /_images/release_notes/verawood/instdash_new.png
   :alt: A screenshot of the home tab of the new Instructor Dashboard, featuring course information at a glance (course name, start date, and enrollment numbers)
   :align: center


Sortable, Searchable Tables
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Many Instructor Dashboard pages now use visually improved tables that let you
filter or search through all entries to find what you need. Many tables also
include row-level actions for editing specific entries.

.. figure:: /_images/release_notes/verawood/instdash_tables.png
   :alt: The "Enrollment Management" table has columns for Username, Name, Email, Course Track (eg "Audit"), Beta Tester status (True or empty), and Actions (here, "Unroll" is the available action)
   :align: center

   The new Instructor Dashboard uses searchable, sortable tables to quickly display the data you need

Page-Level Actions
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The most important actions are now placed at the top right of most pages. These
include primary actions (such as adding a learner or a grading exception) and
links to related external views. Less critical actions appear in an overflow
three-dot menu.

.. figure:: /_images/release_notes/verawood/instdash_page_actions.png
   :alt: On the "Enrollment Management" tab, page-level actions are "Add Beta Testers" and "Enroll Learners", represented as buttons on the top left of the tab
   :align: center

   Page level actions highlighted in red

Content Grouping
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Some tools use tabbed navigation to group related actions. On the **Data
Downloads** page, for example, report generation tools are now grouped by report
type — such as **Enrollment Reports** or **Problem Response Reports** — rather
than listed together on a single flat page.

.. figure:: /_images/release_notes/verawood/instdash_data_downloads.png
   :alt: The Data Downloads tab has a sub-table with the header "Generate Reports". A tabbed view groups available reports into categories: "Enrollment Reports", "Grading Reports", "Problem Response Reports", and "Certificate Reports".
   :align: center

   An example of content grouping on the Data Downloads page

Renames and Reorganizations
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Several tools have been renamed and some functionality has moved to ensure that
related actions stay together:

- **Membership** is now split into two separate tools: **Course Team** and
  **Enrollments**.
- **Student Admin** is now **Grading**. Enrollment-related actions that
  previously lived here have moved to the new **Enrollments** page.
- **Extensions** is now **Date Extensions**.


.. seealso::

   :ref:`Verawood Product Notes` (reference)

   :ref:`Verawood Dev Notes` (reference)


**Maintenance chart**

+--------------+-------------------------------+----------------+--------------------------------+
| Review Date  | Working Group Reviewer        |   Release      |Test situation                  |
+--------------+-------------------------------+----------------+--------------------------------+
| 2025-07-30   | Schema                        | Verawood       | Pass                           |
+--------------+-------------------------------+----------------+--------------------------------+