> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://educontroldoc.pixelspectivetech.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Dashboard and alerts

> The figures on the head teacher's dashboard, what each one counts, and the alerts that need attention.

## What the dashboard shows

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Enrolment and stats" icon="users">
    Active pupils, staff, and the shape of the current term.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Fee collection" icon="calculator">
    Billed, collected, credited and outstanding for the term, broken down by how the money arrived.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Attendance by class" icon="clipboard-check">
    Which classes are marking registers and which are not.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Attendance trend" icon="chart-no-axes-combined">
    How attendance is moving through the term.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Chronic absentees" icon="user-round-x">
    Pupils whose absence has become a pattern rather than an incident.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Needs attention" icon="triangle-alert">
    Things the system has noticed and nobody has dealt with.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

Everything is for the **current term** — see [Academic year and terms](/docs/before-the-term/academic-year-and-terms).

## Reading the collection figures

| Figure                   | Meaning                       |
| ------------------------ | ----------------------------- |
| **Billed**               | Everything invoiced this term |
| **Collected**            | What has been paid            |
| **Credited**             | Reduced by credit notes       |
| **Outstanding**          | Billed − collected − credited |
| **Percentage collected** | Collected ÷ billed            |

<Note>
  Outstanding subtracts credit notes deliberately: a waived charge is not a debt you intend to collect, so counting it as arrears would overstate what the school is owed. See [Corrections](/docs/payments/corrections).
</Note>

The split by channel is the quickest way to see how much of your income has moved from cash to MoMo — useful when deciding how much cash handling the front desk still needs to support.

## Chronic absentees

This is the list worth acting on. Attendance figures for a class average away the individual pupil who has stopped coming; this list names them.

Remember that **Late counts as present**, so a pupil who is always late does not appear here. See [The attendance register](/docs/during-the-term/attendance).

## Alerts

Alerts surface things the system has noticed: gaps in the fee grid, unallocated payments, registers that were never marked. Each carries a severity, a description, and often an action to take.

An alert that has been dealt with can be dismissed. Dismissing it clears it from the list without deleting the underlying record — the payment is still unallocated if you dismiss without allocating it.

<Tip>
  Clear alerts weekly rather than letting them accumulate. A list of forty alerts gets ignored wholesale, including the two that mattered.
</Tip>

## Who can see it

Dashboard figures follow the permissions of the person looking: finance figures need `view_finances`, attendance needs `view_attendance`.