Dashboard
Your home screen. It walks you through setting up your school, shows today's numbers, and lists who is absent so you can message their parents.
What you see when you log in
VidyaManage opens on the Dashboard. From top to bottom you'll see:
- A sample data banner, while the sample school that comes with VidyaManage is still loaded.
- Set up your school — a six-step checklist, shown until every step is done.
- Five stat cards — students, staff, today's attendance and fees.
- Four quick-action buttons for the jobs you do every day.
- Recent Announcements and Absent Today, side by side.
Sample data and starting fresh New
A new VidyaManage comes loaded with a sample school, so every page shows what it looks like in use. While it's there, the Dashboard shows a banner: You're looking at sample data for <sample school>. Explore it, then clear it to set up your own school.
When you're ready to enter your own school:
- 1Click Clear sample data on the banner.
- 2Read what will be removed, type
CLEARin the box, and click Clear sample data.
This deletes every sample record: students, parents, staff, classes, subjects, fee types, dues, receipts, attendance, exams, marks, timetable and announcements. Anything you added yourself stays, and so do your own login and staff record. The sample school's name, address, phone, email, logo and UDISE code are blanked, and receipt numbers restart at 1. Your grade scale and message templates are kept.
Set up your school New
The checklist card shows your progress, for example 4 of 6 done. It counts only records you add yourself, so the sample data never ticks a step. Each step has a button that opens the right page. Once all six are done, the card disappears.
| Step | Button opens | Ticks when |
|---|---|---|
| Classes added | Classes | You add your first class-section. |
| Staff added | Team Management | You add your first staff member. |
| Students imported | Student Directory | The school has at least one student, added or imported. |
| Attendance marked | Attendance Entry | Attendance is saved for the first time. |
| Message sent | Attendance Entry | You open your first parent WhatsApp message (an absence message, or an announcement sent to parents). |
| Receipt issued | Fee Management | You collect your first fee. |
The five stat cards
Click any card to open the page behind it.
| Card | What it shows | Opens |
|---|---|---|
| Students | Number of students in the school. | Student Directory |
| Staff | Number of staff records. | Team Management |
| Today's Attendance | Students marked Present today, as a percentage of all students. | Attendance Entry |
| Fees (month) | Fees received this month, e.g. Fees (October) ₹38,500. | Fee Management |
| Fees Overdue | Unpaid balance on dues whose due date has passed. | Fee Management |
Quick actions
- 1Mark Attendance opens Attendance Entry.
- 2Add Student opens the Student Directory, where you click Add Student.
- 3Collect Fee opens Fee Management.
- 4New Announcement opens Communications.
Recent Announcements and Absent Today
Recent Announcements lists the five newest notices with their date and audience. Click View all announcements to open Communications.
Absent Today lists every student marked Absent today with their class. Click WhatsApp on a row to open a chat with that student's parent, with the absence message already typed. If attendance hasn't been marked yet, or nobody is absent, the panel says so.
If a number looks wrong
- Students shows 0 — import or add students from the Student Directory.
- Today's Attendance is 0% — no class has been marked today. Click Mark Attendance.
- Fees Overdue is ₹0 but parents owe money — dues only count as overdue once you've generated them and the due date has passed. See Fee Management → Generate Dues.