This guide describes every widget available on the edge staff dashboard: what each one shows, who can add it, and where its links take you. Widgets are added from the widget catalogue using the Add Widget button on your dashboard — see the companion article on customising your dashboard for how to add, remove, and arrange them. The permission listed for each widget determines whether it appears in your catalogue; widgets marked "All staff" are offered to every staff role.
This guide describes every widget available on the edge staff dashboard: what each one shows, who can add it, and where its links take you. Widgets are added from the widget catalogue using the Add Widget button on your dashboard — see the companion article on customising your dashboard for how to add, remove, and arrange them. The permission listed for each widget determines whether it appears in your catalogue; widgets marked "All staff" are offered to every staff role.
Introduction to widgets
Who sees it: All staff. This is the default widget on a brand-new dashboard.
A short help panel explaining that widgets are shortcuts personalised to your login, that you add them with the Add Widget button under the welcome box, that unwanted widgets can be deleted, and that you should save your setting after each change. It displays static help text only and has no links.
Latest Video
Who sees it: All staff.
An embedded video player showing the most recent upload from the MUSAC YouTube channel. Double-click the video to view it fullscreen. The video plays inside the widget itself.
Welcome to edge
Who sees it: All staff.
An introduction to edge for new users. It includes a Play Video button that opens a quick video tour in a new tab, and reminds you that the Software Support Team can be reached via the Contact Us button and that online help is available from the Help button on each page.
Today's Student Birthdays
Who sees it: All staff.
A list of students whose birthday falls today. Each student's name links to their Student Summary page (or the teacher-mode Student Summary if you are on the teacher dashboard). The list is refreshed hourly.
Screenshot: Today's Student Birthdays widget listing student names as links
Today's Incomplete Rolls
Who sees it: Staff with the Manage Attendance permission.
A daily count of all incomplete (unmarked) attendance rolls across the school. The count links to the Unmarked Attendance Rolls page for today's date so an attendance officer can chase up outstanding rolls. Figures are not available before 9:15am.
Students at School Today
Who sees it: Staff with the Manage Attendance permission.
A quick link that runs an export of all students at school today, via the Attendance area's Graphs and Exports page (the export runs automatically when the link is followed). On days the school timetable shows as closed, the widget instead displays School is closed today, and if the timetable cannot be checked it reports an error.
My Incomplete Rolls for Today
Who sees it: Staff with the Manage Own Class Attendance permission.
A daily count of your own incomplete rolls. The count links to the Daily Attendance List page (teacher-mode version on the teacher dashboard) so you can mark the outstanding rolls. Figures are not available before 9:15am.
Enrolled Students
Who sees it: All staff.
A daily set of enrolment counts for the school, each shown as a link:
| Figure | Links to |
|---|---|
| Currently enrolled students | Enrolled Student Summary |
| This year's pre-enrolments | List Pre-Enrolments |
| Next year's pre-enrolments | List Pre-Enrolments (filtered to next year) |
| Pending online enrolments | List Pre-Enrolments (current year) |
| This year's leavers | Student Summary page, This Year's Leavers table |
On the teacher dashboard the counts still display, but only the enrolled-students link is active — the pre-enrolment, pending online enrolment, and leaver links are disabled. Counts are cached for 5 minutes (60 minutes during the 8am–10am peak).
Locked Users
Who sees it: Staff with the Manage System Access permission.
A count of user accounts that are currently locked out. The count links to the Unlock Users page where the accounts can be unlocked.
Pre-Enrolled Students
Who sees it: Staff with the Manage Enrolments permission.
A count of this year's pre-enrolled students. The count links to the List Pre-Enrolments page.
Students With Roll Return Errors
Who sees it: Staff with the Manage Roll Returns permission.
A count of students with Ministry of Education roll return validation errors for the next roll return period (March, June, July, or September). The count links to the Roll Returns page. Early in the morning (before 9:20am) the widget shows an overnight cached figure with a Last updated timestamp; after that it validates live. If no upcoming roll return period is found, no count is shown.
YTD Attendance Rate
Who sees it: Staff with the View Attendance Analysis and Reports permission.
A pie chart of the year-to-date attendance rate, from the first day of the year to today, broken down by truancy code group: Present, Justified Absence, Unjustified Absence, and Overseas Holiday. Each slice is labelled with its percentage, and hovering shows the code, count, and percentage. Clicking the chart opens the Attendance Summary analysis page.
In admin mode the chart covers the whole school; on the teacher dashboard the same widget is automatically restricted to the teacher's own students. Data is calculated once per day per school and cached until the following morning.
Screenshot: YTD Attendance Rate pie chart with P, J, U and O segments and percentage labels
End of term Countdown
Who sees it: All staff.
A large countdown of the number of school days left until the end of the current term, based on your school's timetable. On the last day of term (and on specially configured dates) the number can be replaced by a celebratory animated image and message configured by MUSAC. The count is cached for two hours.
Students in Sickbay
Who sees it: Staff with the Manage Health and Safety Incidents permission.
A live count of students currently in the sickbay ("There are N students in sickbay"), followed by the list of their names. The count links to the Health and Safety Incidents page, and each student's name opens their sickbay incident record for editing. On the teacher dashboard the names are shown for information only, without the incident links.
My Classes
Who sees it: Teachers, on the teacher dashboard only.
The classes you teach, split into the classes on your timetable today (with their period shown) and your other classes. Each class name links to that class's Classes landing page. If you have no classes today, the widget says so. The class list is cached for your session.
Today's Attendance
Who sees it: Teachers, on the teacher dashboard only. This widget is placed at the top-left of the teacher dashboard by default.
A summary of today's rolls for your classes. For each roll it shows the start time and session, and a Marked or Unmarked status that links straight to the roll-marking page for that class and period. It also shows:
- This week's incomplete rolls — a count of your unmarked rolls since Monday, linking to the oldest unmarked roll (or All Rolls Marked when you are up to date).
- Today's attendance notes — the number of attendance notes recorded against your students today.
If the unmarked-roll count feature is disabled at server level, that panel shows a "new version coming soon" notice instead.
Screenshot: Today's Attendance widget showing each period's roll with Marked and Unmarked links, weekly unmarked count, and today's note count
Today's Attendance Statistics
Who sees it: Staff with the View Attendance Analysis and Reports permission.
A table of today's whole-school attendance, based on the most recent attendance code recorded against each student today. It shows, per code, the number of students and the percentage of the enrolled roll — Present (with a late tally where applicable), off-site codes, all other codes in descending order, students with nothing recorded yet, and the total enrolled. Statistics are not available before 9:15am; before then the widget shows a message asking you to check back later.
Information Back from ENROL
Who sees it: Enrolment Officers. This widget is added automatically and is fixed in place — it cannot be moved or removed.
A summary of your school's data exchange with the Ministry of Education's ENROL system, with five linked counts:
| Figure | Links to |
|---|---|
| Arrivals waiting to upload | Arrival Upload Batch page |
| Arrivals with issues | ENROL Issues page (arrival pre-validation issues) |
| Leavers waiting to upload | Leaver Upload Batch page |
| Leavers with issues | ENROL Issues page (leaver pre-validation issues) |
| Invalid NSNs | ENROL Issues page (NSN check issues) |
Counts are cached for two hours and the widget shows a Last Updated time. The widget requires the ENROL arrivals upload feature to be enabled for your site; when it is switched off the widget shows an unavailable message.