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Managing Tabs

Every administrator can create their own tabs and rearrange them. Administrators with the right permission can also create and edit district-shared tabs that show up for everyone.

Opening the dashboards manager​

The tab strip at the top of the dashboard always ends with a Manage Dashboards option. Click it to open the management modal.

The Manage Dashboards button in the tab strip

The modal lists every tab visible to you — district tabs first, then your personal tabs — with rename and delete controls per row.

The Manage Dashboards modal listing all visible tabs with controls

Creating a tab​

Inside the Manage Dashboards modal:

  1. Click New Personal to add a tab visible only to you.
  2. Or click New District to add a tab visible to everyone. (Only shown if you have the Manage District Dashboards permission.)
  3. Type a name when prompted — for example, Operations, My Region, Billing Watch, or Help Desk.
  4. The new tab appears at the end of its section.
Personal tab limit

You can have up to four personal tabs per account. Once you hit the cap, the New Personal button is disabled until you delete one.

Renaming a tab​

  1. In the Manage Dashboards modal, click the pencil icon next to the tab.
  2. Type the new name in the prompt and confirm.
  3. The tab label updates immediately in the tab strip.

Reordering tabs​

District and personal tabs each have their own order. Inside the Manage Dashboards modal, grab any row's drag handle and drop it where you want it to land. The new order is saved as soon as you release.

Drag handle on a dashboard row in the Manage Dashboards modal

Deleting a tab​

  1. Click the trash icon next to the tab in the Manage Dashboards modal.
  2. Confirm in the dialog.
  3. Every widget on that tab is removed too — there's no per-widget recovery, so make sure that's what you want.
Last tab protection

You can't delete the only remaining dashboard you can see. The dashboards page always keeps at least one tab visible so it has somewhere to render.

District vs. personal — how to choose​

  • Use a personal tab when the widgets are tuned to your day-to-day — your campus, your queue, the metrics you check first thing in the morning.
  • Use a district tab when you're building a view every administrator should land on — a leadership dashboard, an operations status page, the metrics your superintendent expects to see.

District tabs are always visible. If a metric only matters for some roles, layer it onto a personal tab those roles can pin themselves.

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