Most of the Dashboard's user interface is the same for instructors, students, and visitors who are not part of a course. The following key features are present only for specific roles.

Instructor-only features

• Real names of students are visible on the Students tab
• Editing of Course Details, Description, and Timeline
• Adding Available Articles; the link to the Available Articles view is not shown to students at all if the list is empty.
• Adding and removing students

Student-only features

• The Home tab includes Upcoming Exercises, which links to the next assigned Exercise module that has not yet been marked complete. (This is only present if the student has at least one incomplete exercise.)
• The Home tab include My Articles, which allows them to manage the articles they will write or peer review, and provides guidance on the key stages of the assignment for each article.

See the Keeping track of your work on the Dashboard training module for a walkthrough of these features.