Navigate your dashboard

Your dashboard is the main landing page for Intune for Education. It's where you begin every time you sign in, and it's the starting point to manage your users, apps, and devices.

Dashboard defaults and customizations

The default dashboard shows the following tiles to help get you started with essential device management tasks:

  • Launch Express Configuration
  • School Data Sync
  • Manage user and device groups
  • Manage apps

Some tiles, such as School Data Sync and Manage apps, show metrics like configuration status and current app inventory.

Use the tools in the dashboard menu to refresh, expand, edit, export, clone, or delete your dashboard.

Screenshot of the dashboard, highlighting the toolbar options.

New dashboard

From the dashboard menu, select New dashboard to create a dashboard from scratch, or to upload an exported dashboard. When you create a dashboard, it doesn't overwrite or remove existing dashboards. Select the arrow next to the current dashboard name to access your other dashboards.

Screenshot of the dashboard name menu revealing a list of all dashboards in the tenant.

Every page in Intune for Education has a sidebar from which you can access the management areas of the portal. Select See all to view other areas and services in Intune for Education that aren't listed.

Screenshot of the Intune for Edudcation sidebar showing a list of hyperlinks to the available services and tasks.

To reorder the links in your sidebar, hover your cursor over the right-side of a link. Then click and drag to reposition the service.

Screenshot of Intune for Education sidebar with the cursor hovering over the item that needs to be reordered.

Next steps

Go through Express Configuration to quickly set up users and devices with the essential configurations. For more information, see Express configuration in Intune for Education.