> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.pawtograder.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Instructor Dashboard

> Monitor course activity, grading progress, and student engagement from a centralized overview

# Instructor Dashboard

The instructor dashboard provides a comprehensive overview of your course's grading status, student activity, and system health. Access it from the course navigation menu.

## Assignment Grading Overview

The dashboard displays all assignments in a consolidated table organized into three sections:

### Needs Attention

Assignments with incomplete work, open regrade requests, or other items requiring action:

* Assignments with incomplete submission reviews
* Assignments with incomplete review assignments
* Assignments with open regrade requests

### Upcoming with No Blocking Work

Assignments with upcoming due dates that have no pending grading or issues.

### Complete or Stable

Past-due or undated assignments where all grading is complete and no issues remain.

## Dashboard Metrics

For each assignment, you can see:

* **Grading Due**: The due date for grading work (in your course timezone)
* **Submitted Students**: How many students have submitted vs. total enrolled
* **Submission Reviews**: Completion status of overall submission grading (one per submission)
* **Review Assignments**: Individual grading tasks assigned to staff members. Multiple graders can be assigned to review different parts of the same submission, so review assignment counts may exceed submission review counts.
* **Grades Released**: Whether grades have been released (fully, partially, or not at all)
* **Regrades / Extensions**: Open regrade requests and students with active due date extensions

## Summary Cards

At the top of the dashboard, summary cards display:

* **Assignments Needing Attention**: Total count of assignments requiring action
* **Incomplete Submission Reviews**: Total across all assignments
* **Incomplete Review Assignments**: Total grading tasks pending
* **Grade Release Status**: Fully released vs. total releasable assignments
* **Open Regrade Requests**: Total open requests across all assignments

## Quick Actions

Each assignment row provides links to:

* **Grading Dashboard**: Detailed grading progress and rubric completion
* **Submissions**: View all student submissions
* **Regrade Requests**: Manage student regrade requests
* **Due Date Exceptions**: View and manage extensions

## Office Hours Activity

View recent help queue activity including:

* Open help requests
* Average wait time
* Total requests resolved in the last 24 hours

## Discussion Board Activity

Monitor discussion board engagement:

* Recent posts and replies
* Unanswered questions
* Most active threads

## Workflow Run Status

Track autograder and background job health:

* **Last Hour**: Recent workflow runs and error count
* **Last 24 Hours**: Daily workflow statistics
* **Recent Errors**: Quick access to failed workflow runs

<Tip>
  Click on any metric to navigate directly to the relevant management page for detailed information and actions.
</Tip>