Week of 25-31 August 2026: The New Dashboard

A principal's first screen should answer the morning's questions — who is in, what has come in, what needs me — before showing a single chart. That is what this week's centrepiece does. Around it, two pieces of exam paperwork that schools have been producing by hand come off the printer finished, and the email a parent receives finally looks like it came from your school, because now it does.

The New Dashboard

Your school, as it stands right now. Open it from the sidebar (New Dashboard) or the Try the new dashboard button on your existing dashboard. It opens on today — attendance, what has been collected so far, what is still to collect and who is on duty — with two progress bars at the top: one showing where "now" sits between the first bell and dispersal, one showing how much of the session's fees are in. Set your actual school hours under Preferences → Academic → School Hours and the day bar follows them.

"Needs your attention" collects the decisions. Teachers absent with periods still needing a substitute, students flagged as at-risk, leave requests parents are waiting on, attendance nobody has marked yet — each with the button that settles it. When nothing is outstanding it says so, instead of showing an empty box.

Every module you own, on one screen. A tile for each part of EDII your school has switched on — students, fees, exams, transport, library, hostel, canteen, health, inventory, events and the rest — each with a live figure where there is one. An AI on duty panel gathers EdiiBrain, dropout prediction, Finance AI, Exam Insights, Self-Learn and the AI tools in one place, with the count of students currently needing attention.

The fee picture in four cards instead of sixteen charts. Collected against spent over the session, the collected-and-pending split, pending or paid by class, and the largest outstanding balances — click a name to open that student. The subject chart in Academics now lists only subjects that actually carry marks, and the full detail is still a click away in Finance AI.

Faster to open, honest when empty. Only the top of the screen loads up front; each section asks for its figures as you scroll to it. A morning with no payments yet says so and offers to record one — instead of reporting a "100% drop from yesterday" — and a month where spending exceeded collection shows the real negative figure rather than zero.

Your existing dashboard has not changed. Nothing was removed from it, it is still what you land on, and the two screens link to each other — use whichever you prefer.

Exam paperwork, off the printer finished

Hall Ticket prints a proper sheet of name slips. (Exam → Admit Card → Hall Ticket.) Instead of three cramped lines in a floating box, you now get an A4 grid with dashed cutting guides, ready to guillotine apart for exam desks or answer booklets. The roll number is the big thing on each slip — readable from across a hall — with the name beside it; class and section, admission number, photo and school name can each be switched on or off.

You control the sheet before any paper is used. Choose 8, 12, 18 or 24 slips per page and the screen says how many sheets you are about to print. The preview is the printed page at true size, slips come out in roll-number order (or alphabetical), a search box finds one student to reprint a torn slip, and CSV downloads the same list.

Consolidated Result Sheet: one sheet for the whole class. (Report → Exam → Consolidated Result Sheet.) Pick a class, sections and an exam and get the sheet schools make by hand — a row per student, a column per subject, total, percentage, attendance and a blank column for the parent's signature. Print it landscape A4 headed with your school's details, send it home, collect it back signed. CSV gives the same table as a spreadsheet.

Marks add up the way you add them. Where a periodic test is recorded in pieces — the test, Note Book, Subject Enrichment — the sheet combines them into one figure per subject, and says which parts it included. Elected languages and shared columns (Sanskrit/Urdu, Art with P.T.) print as one column, exactly as your hand-made sheet does.

Missing marks are left out, not counted as zero. A student who scored 52 of the 60 marks entered so far shows 52/60, not 52/110. Absent still counts against the paper's maximum, and letter grades are shown but stay out of the total. The sheet's printed format is prepared per school and released class by class — where it is not switched on yet, the screen says so.

Every email now comes from your school

Your name on the envelope, your office on reply. Fee receipts, reminders, calendar events, Comms messages, test results — every email now shows your school's name as the sender instead of "Team EDII", and signs off with your school's name, address, phone, email and website. When a School Email is set, replies land at your office instead of an unattended mailbox.

See exactly how it signs off. Nothing to switch on — open Preferences → School Information for a preview headed "How your emails sign off", with a list of any details still missing. Fill them in and save; they appear in every email from then on.

Readable on a phone, formatted as written. All templates are rebuilt to a single design that fits a phone screen, every email carries a plain-text version for mail apps that show no formatting, messages sent from Comms keep their paragraphs and line breaks, and one receipt design is used whether the fee was paid at the counter, online, or re-sent from the app.

Parents ask, the office approves

Corrections to student details, as requests. Until now the app could only change the email address and photo; everything else meant a phone call. Families can now send the corrected spelling of a name, a new contact number, an address or a date of birth from the app — and nothing on the record changes until an admin approves it under Student → Profile Update Requests.

Approve line by line. On approval you see what is on record against what is asked for, with a checkbox per detail — accept the corrected father's name and refuse the new phone number in the same request. The family hears back both ways, in the app and by email, with your note and exactly which details were accepted. Only an admin sees the approve and reject buttons.

You choose what can be asked. Preferences → General Settings → Student App Settings lists every Add Student field with All/None per section — the app offers exactly what you tick, and unticking everything removes the option entirely. Class, Section and anything that decides fees stay with the office, and since the contact number is what the app signs in with, confirm that request really came from the family before approving it.

Smaller touches across the system

"About this page" help on every screen. A small ? now sits in the bottom-right corner of every page. Click it and a panel explains in plain language what the screen is for, which filters to pick, and what the less obvious columns mean — and on fee and exam reports it flags the traps, such as the Fee Collection Report's month columns being the month a fee is for, not the month it was paid.

Three reports join the search box. Master Report, Fee Collection Report and Day Report can now be found from the search at the top and saved as favourites — all three were in the Fees & Finance menu but missing from search. The loading screen also now names the page it is opening.

Teacher app: letter grades can be typed in. A grade like A, B+ or EX could not be entered on the single exam marks screen — the keypad only offered digits. Enter Marks now has a Numbers/Grades switch, and remembers which one you use.

Student app: Self Learn remembers how far you read. A chapter read to the end is marked as read on the chapter list, coming back from a chapter refreshes the list straight away, and the percentage beside a chapter is your best quiz score — not how much of it you have read.

The morning, the exam hall, and the envelope