Education Dashboard

The challenge

Course platforms generate two kinds of data that are usually mixed together: business performance, and teaching performance. An administrator reviewing revenue and an operator reviewing instructor quality were using the same crowded screen and both were scrolling past the other half.

What I did

I separated them within one layout. Revenue, enrolments and course figures sit across the top as the business readout, with a revenue statistics curve beneath carrying the trend. Instructor performance occupies its own ranked panel, and recent sales sit alongside as the transactional detail. A green primary surface at the top frames the business figures and visually separates them from the teaching data without needing a second page.

The outcome

One dashboard serving both business and teaching review, with the instructor panel ranked rather than alphabetical so quality signals surface on their own.

Ranked beats alphabetical

Instructor lists default to alphabetical because it is the easy ordering. It is also the one that guarantees nothing useful appears at the top.

Ranking by performance means the panel answers a question - who is doing well, who needs support - instead of merely listing people. The same data, ordered to be informative rather than neutral.

Framing as separation

Two audiences on one screen normally leads to a request for two screens, which doubles maintenance and splits the context.

Using a coloured surface to frame the business figures creates a clear visual boundary at zero navigational cost. The teaching data below reads as a distinct region without being a distinct page.

The revenue curve carries the story

A single large trend line communicates more about the health of a course business than any arrangement of totals. Totals say where you are; the curve says how you got there and whether it is holding.

Giving it genuine width, rather than compressing it into a card, is what makes the shape readable at a glance.