Student Dashboards
Ten dashboard concepts designed to support motivation, awareness, agency, and flow — without pressure or comparison.
Student Dashboard 1: Learning Journey Overview
This dashboard presents learning as a continuous journey rather than a checklist of completed tasks. It shows where the student is right now, where they have recently been, and the immediate direction their learning is taking. The emphasis is on movement and momentum, not completion. By framing progress as something unfolding over time, it reassures students that learning is happening even when individual moments feel challenging or uncertain. The system leads this view deliberately, helping preserve flow and reducing the urge to self-judge based on isolated outcomes.
Student Dashboard 2: Progress Over Time (XP / Stars View)
This dashboard helps students understand effort and momentum across time rather than focusing on single sessions. It shows how learning activity naturally rises and falls across days, weeks, or months, reinforcing the idea that progress is cumulative and non-linear. Dips are normal, spikes are contextual, and neither defines ability. By showing long-term accumulation instead of short-term competition, the dashboard supports motivation without framing learning as a race or a streak to be maintained at all costs.
Student Dashboard 3: Topic Progress & Planning View
This dashboard supports self-directed learning outside the personalised journey. It allows students to explore topics intentionally, see how much they have already worked through within a topic, and decide what they might want to tackle next. Structure is present, but it is not overwhelming. Scores and completion signals exist here to support planning and goal-setting, while remaining secondary to understanding. This view is designed for students who want agency without needing to manage the entire learning system themselves.
Student Dashboard 4: Individual Phlow Performance
This dashboard focuses on performance within a specific Phlow. It provides clear, contained feedback on how that Phlow is going: how much has been completed, what has been earned, and how stages are progressing. It is a tactical view rather than a motivational one, intended for moments when a student chooses to revisit, practise, or deliberately master a particular area. By keeping detailed performance signals local to this context, it prevents scores from dominating the broader learning narrative.
Student Dashboard 5: Difficulty & Confidence Calibration
This dashboard helps students understand the relationship between challenge and confidence. It shows that increasing difficulty is not a sign of failure or punishment, but a response to growing capability. As confidence stabilises, challenge rises — gradually and intentionally. The language used here avoids judgement and instead describes learning states in supportive terms, helping students reframe difficulty as evidence of progress rather than something to avoid.
Student Dashboard 6: Effort Recognition & Improvement
This dashboard highlights improvement relative to the student’s own past performance, particularly in areas that were previously difficult. It rewards persistence, recovery, and gradual change rather than flawless results. By drawing attention to what has become easier or more efficient over time, it helps students recognise growth that might otherwise go unnoticed. The focus is on effort and improvement, reinforcing the idea that learning is something built, not something proven once.
Student Dashboard 7: Recommended Next Steps
This dashboard answers the question “What should I do next?” without removing student agency. It offers a small number of meaningful suggestions aligned with the student’s current state, rather than an overwhelming list of options or a single forced path. Each recommendation is framed as support, not instruction, helping students feel guided without feeling controlled. The aim is to reduce decision fatigue while preserving choice and ownership.
Student Dashboard 8: Consistency & Engagement Patterns
This dashboard helps students reflect on consistency and learning habits over time. It introduces gentle accountability without shame, allowing students to notice patterns in when and how they engage. Rather than rewarding streaks or punishing gaps, it treats consistency as something to observe and understand. The intention is to support long-term engagement by making habits visible, not by enforcing targets.
Student Dashboard 9: Recovery & Return View
This dashboard activates after a period of inactivity and is designed to make returning feel safe. It reassures students that breaks do not undo progress and that the system will help them re-establish confidence before moving forward. By temporarily prioritising familiarity and stability, it removes pressure at the point of return and prevents fragile understanding from being overwhelmed. The message is clear: coming back is supported, not penalised.
Student Dashboard 10: Reflection & Learning Awareness
This dashboard invites light, optional reflection to help students become more aware of how they learn. It is not evaluative and carries no scoring or expectation. Instead, it encourages simple noticing — what helped, what felt easier, what changed. Over time, this supports the development of metacognition without turning reflection into another task to perform. It exists to deepen understanding of learning itself, not to measure it.