Work the instructor dashboard

What this achieves

The instructor dashboard is one screen for everything you are responsible for teaching. It shows your courses and how far people have got, the sessions you are due to run, and what is waiting on you to mark.

Required role: Instructor.

Steps

Go to Learning → Instructor.
Read the figures across the top: My Courses, Active Enrollments, Completion Rate, and Pending Grading.
Under My Courses, check average progress and how many learners are in progress on each.
Under Upcoming ILT Sessions, check what you are due to run.
Under Grading Queue, select Grade on a submission, or Go to Grading for the full queue.

The four figures

Option	Description
My Courses	How many courses name you as the instructor.
Active Enrollments	How many people are currently working through them.
Completion Rate	The proportion of enrolments that have completed.
Pending Grading	How many submissions are waiting on you.

Read Pending Grading first. It is the only one of the four that is a queue, and it is the only one where the delay is yours.

Your courses

Each course shows its average progress across enrolled learners, how many are in progress, and the average score where assessments have been taken.

Average progress is the useful number, and it is worth reading against time rather than alone. A course averaging a fifth of the way through in its first week is healthy; the same figure three months after launch means people started it and stopped.

Example: a course at HC Corp UK Ltd showing thirty people in progress and low average progress has an engagement problem rather than a content problem — they enrolled, so something after that lost them.

Where no courses name you as their instructor, the screen says so and explains that courses appear once an administrator assigns you to them.

Upcoming sessions

Sessions you are due to teach are listed with their timing, and online ones are marked as virtual. Where you have none scheduled, the screen says so rather than showing an empty panel.

This panel is a reminder, not a roster. Open a session itself to register people or mark who came.

The grading queue

Submissions waiting on you are listed with how many answers each contains and when it was submitted. Grade opens one directly; Go to Grading opens the full queue where several can be worked through in order.

The answer count is the useful signal for planning. Ten submissions of two answers each is a different afternoon from ten of twenty.

Where nothing is waiting, the screen tells you that you are up to date rather than showing an empty list.

What happens next

Grading a submission releases the learner’s result and feeds the course’s average score, which is the figure on this dashboard. Where a course carries a certification, completing and passing is what makes it issuable.