Your school's console

A principal's questions are about a school rather than about a class: who is teaching, who has nothing running yet, which children are on the roll and in no class, and how much the app is actually being used. The console answers all of them in one place. Open it from the menu behind your own picture — at the foot of the sidebar, or the top of the screen on a phone — under Console.

Staff

Everyone who works at the school, one row each, with their teams and three counts: Classes is what they teach themselves rather than everything on their team, Boards is the Mastery Boards running in those classes, and Templates is the Board Templates they have made. Every column sorts, and the search and the dropdowns narrow the list.

Last seen is the last day we heard from somebody — timed at the moment that day started for them, and never earlier than their last sign-in. It is not the same as a last sign-in: nobody is signed out of Mastery Board for being away, so a teacher can sign in once in August and be here every morning since. Days active is how many separate days they were here in the past 90 — the number to give a district that asks whether the app is being used. A day runs midnight to midnight in the district's time zone, so marking after supper and again before school is two days. While Mastery Board has been counting for less than 90 days, the note under the table says which date counting began.

• The menu at the end of a row has Edit — their name, whether they run the school, and resetting two-step sign-in for a lost phone.
• Send a password link emails them a link to choose a new one. Nobody here ever sees or sets a password, including you.
• Take off this school ends their place at once and takes them off its teams. Their classes and the marks in them stay where they are; the Board Templates they made at the school become yours, so owning one is not a way back in.
• Invite someone at the top of the page is how anybody new arrives.

Children

Every child on the roll, with their school year, the classes they are in and the boards those classes are marked against. A child in no class has an empty Classes column and a filter of their own — In no class — which is the list worth reading in September.

Choosing a child's name opens their whole record: every board their classes are marked against, every unit, and their mark where there is one. A unit they were away for says Absent and counts towards nothing, and a unit nobody has marked yet says so rather than reading as a row of noughts.

Teams

The same cards as the Teams page, for this school alone: who is on each team, who is at the school and on no team yet, and the teachers waiting for an answer to a join request. Add a team and Invite someone are both at the top.

Standards

The Standards tab shows what your district chose — the state, the grades and the subjects your teachers are offered — so when a teacher asks why she cannot find a standard, you can see the answer rather than guess at it. Your district sets it, and every school follows the same; the tab links to the district console for whoever can change it.

Your school's standards are yours to add: anything your school uses that the state does not cover. A standard needs its words, and a code only if it has one. This is also where a standard lands when a teacher types one into the Template Builder because she could not find what she needed — so you can give it its words, or retire it. Retiring takes it out of the picker and leaves every question already tagged with it alone.

Taking a list away

Export CSV, beside the count on Staff and on Children, saves the list as a spreadsheet. It holds every row and column on the screen — the rows the search and the filters have left, in the order you sorted them — and a cell the table had to shorten to "+2 more" is written out in full, because a spreadsheet has the room a row did not. The count beside the button says how many will be written, so a narrowed list is never mistaken for the whole one.

The file is a copy of children's and staff records. Once it is on a laptop or in an email it is outside Mastery Board and no longer protected by it, so send it the way your district sends anything else about a child.

A district administrator reaches the same three tabs for any school of hers by choosing its name on her district console's Schools tab — Console takes her to the district first.