The staff dashboard is the first page you see when you sign in to edge. It shows your school's announcements, edge announcements, and a set of widgets — small panels that bring counts, charts, and quick links for your favourite areas of edge straight to you. You choose which widgets appear, and where they sit, and your layout is saved against your own login, so every staff member can arrange their dashboard differently.
The staff dashboard is the first page you see when you sign in to edge. It shows your school's announcements, edge announcements, and a set of widgets — small panels that bring counts, charts, and quick links for your favourite areas of edge straight to you. You choose which widgets appear, and where they sit, and your layout is saved against your own login, so every staff member can arrange their dashboard differently.
How widgets work
Widgets are drawn from a school-wide widget catalogue. Which widgets you can pick depends on the permissions attached to your edge roles — for example, only staff with the Manage System Access permission are offered the Locked Users widget, while widgets such as Today's Student Birthdays and End of term Countdown are available to all staff roles. If your permissions change and you no longer have access to a widget already on your dashboard, that widget's content is replaced with a message telling you that you no longer have permission to view it.
A few other rules apply:
- You can have a maximum of 8 widgets on your dashboard at one time. If you try to add a ninth, edge asks you to remove an existing widget first.
- You cannot add the same widget twice.
- Staff in the Enrolment Officer role automatically have the Information Back from ENROL widget pinned to their dashboard. It is fixed in place and cannot be moved or removed.
- Teachers working in teacher mode see the teacher dashboard, which also offers the teacher-only widgets My Classes and Today's Attendance.
- A brand-new dashboard starts with the Introduction to widgets help widget, which explains how to personalise the page.
Screenshot: Staff dashboard showing the welcome banner, Add Widget and Save Setting buttons, and several widgets arranged in columns
Adding a widget
- On the dashboard, select the Add Widget button (below the welcome box).
- The Add New Widget window opens. Widgets are grouped by role — an All group holds the widgets available to every staff member, and each of your other roles has its own group showing how many widgets it offers. Select a group heading to expand it.
- Each row shows the widget's name and a short description. Select Add next to the widget you want.
- The widget is placed in the next free column on your dashboard.
- Select Save Setting to keep the change.
Screenshot: Add New Widget dialog with role groups expanded, showing widget names, descriptions, and Add buttons
Removing a widget
- Hover over the widget's title bar and select the X (Remove this widget) icon.
- Confirm the prompt This widget will be removed, ok?.
- Select Save Setting to keep the change.
Removing a widget only takes it off your own dashboard — you can add it back from the catalogue at any time (permissions permitting).
Arranging widgets
- Click and hold a widget's title bar — this is the drag handle.
- Drag the widget up, down, or into another column. Other widgets shuffle to make room as you drag.
- Release the mouse to drop the widget in its new position.
- Select Save Setting to store the new layout.
Fixed widgets (such as Information Back from ENROL for Enrolment Officers) cannot be dragged or removed.
Saving your layout
Changes to your dashboard — adding, removing, or rearranging widgets — are not permanent until you select Save Setting. When the save succeeds, edge confirms with a Data Saved Successfully message. If you leave the page without saving, your dashboard returns to its last saved layout next time you sign in.
Who sees which widgets
Every widget in the catalogue is gated by a permission. The table below summarises the staff widgets and the access each one needs — see the companion article for what each widget actually shows.
| Widget | Required access |
|---|---|
| Introduction to widgets | All staff |
| Latest Video | All staff |
| Welcome to edge | All staff |
| Today's Student Birthdays | All staff |
| Enrolled Students | All staff |
| End of term Countdown | All staff |
| Today's Incomplete Rolls | Manage Attendance |
| Students at School Today | Manage Attendance |
| My Incomplete Rolls for Today | Manage Own Class Attendance |
| Locked Users | Manage System Access |
| Pre-Enrolled Students | Manage Enrolments |
| Students With Roll Return Errors | Manage Roll Returns |
| YTD Attendance Rate | View Attendance Analysis and Reports |
| Today's Attendance Statistics | View Attendance Analysis and Reports |
| Students in Sickbay | Manage Health and Safety Incidents |
| My Classes | Teacher (teacher dashboard only) |
| Today's Attendance | Teacher (teacher dashboard only) |
| Information Back from ENROL | Enrolment Officer (fixed — added automatically) |
Notes and limitations
- Widgets must be enabled for your site by MUSAC (a server-level setting). If widgets are switched off, the dashboard shows announcements only.
- The roll-count widgets (Today's Incomplete Rolls and My Incomplete Rolls for Today) do not show figures before 9:15am — until then they display a message asking you to check back later. They can also be disabled at server level, in which case they show a "new version coming soon" notice.
- Several widgets cache their figures for performance (for example, birthdays refresh hourly and the YTD attendance pie refreshes overnight), so counts may lag slightly behind live data.