Your academic year, on one screen. The view your chairman will ask for.
Open it Monday morning. See the whole year. Holidays in green, exams in amber, events in teal — every day of April to March, colour-coded. Share the PDF with the chairman before lunch. Your school looks the way it actually runs.
8:50 a.m. Monday. The principal walks in.
Her phone is buzzing. A parent wants to know if Dussehra is a holiday this year. The chairman wants the date of Founder's Day. The Class 10 coordinator is asking how many working days are left before pre-boards. The office assistant has just emailed her a printed Excel of the calendar with a yellow highlighter on today's row.
Four questions. Four people. Four different views of the same calendar. None of them in one place. The principal opens her tabs, fumbles for two minutes, answers three of the four. She makes a mental note to ask the office to print a fresh sheet. Same time tomorrow, same four questions.
We built the Events Command Center for that exact moment. One screen. The whole year. Every number the principal cares about, every event the office plans around, every chart the chairman asks to see. Open it once. Get all four answers in 30 seconds. Close it. Move on with your morning.
What's actually on the screen
The top of the dashboard is four big numbers, each in its own tile: total events in the year, total holidays, total exams, working days remaining until session-end. Right below is a session progress bar that fills as the year passes — "142 of 240 working days complete, 59% of session" — and an alerts panel that flags things like "Annual Function clashes with Class 10 pre-boards" or "Eid date not yet confirmed".
The middle of the dashboard is the heatmap — the entire academic year as a grid, every day a coloured cell. Holidays in green. Exams in amber. School events in teal. Off-days in blue. The eye finds the busy weeks and the empty weeks in three seconds. Click any cell to see what's happening that day. Click any KPI to drill into the filtered list.
The bottom of the dashboard is the analytics: a donut showing your year's mix of holidays vs exams vs events, a stacked monthly bar chart, the next seven days as a timeline, every exam window as a sortable list, and two cards that answer the questions the office asks every week — "how many working days does October actually have after holidays?" and "which classes have how many events?"
What you'll see on this screen
- Four headline numbers — total events, holidays, exams, working days remaining — each with the change from last quarter
- Session progress bar — how far you are through the academic year, with start and end dates labelled
- Alerts panel — things to fix this week (date clashes, missing class assignments, lunar dates not confirmed)
- 12-month heatmap — the entire year, day by day, colour-coded, click to see what's happening
- Composition donut — your year as a pie: how much is holidays, how much is exams, how much is school events
- Monthly stack chart — events per month, stacked by type, find your heavy weeks and your free weeks
- Upcoming timeline — the next seven days, every event, with class scope and a one-click edit
- Exam schedule — every exam window in the session, sortable by date or by class
- Holiday impact — working days each month after holidays, the number you need for fee calculations
- Class impact — events per class from Class 1 to Class 12, find the classes overloaded with events
- One-click PDF export — send the entire dashboard to the chairman's WhatsApp before lunch
The dashboard in detail
The four numbers a principal cares about
Total events. Total holidays. Total exams. Working days remaining. They sit at the top of the screen because they're the only four numbers that matter on a Monday morning.
They carry the trend from last quarter. "Working days remaining: 64. That's 12 fewer than last year by the same date." Now you know exactly what to tell the syllabus committee, and you didn't open Excel.
The heatmap is the screen everyone remembers
Class 10 coordinator wants free weeks between Diwali and Republic Day? She finds them in the heatmap in five seconds. Office assistant wondering which days are heavy with overlapping events? Each cell shows a small count chip when there's more than one event.
Click any day. The popover shows every event for that date, with a one-click edit. No flipping months. No three-tab Excel. The entire year is one picture, and the picture tells the story.
Holiday impact: the number for fee calculations
October has 31 calendar days. After Dussehra, Diwali, Bhai Dooj and four Sundays, it has 19 working days. The accountant prorating fees for January joiners needs that number. The substitute-teacher coordinator needs it. The syllabus planner needs it.
Until now, someone counted by hand. Or someone looked at a paper calendar and guessed. The Holiday Impact card gives you the working-day count for every month, in real time, no spreadsheet.
Class impact: spot the overloaded classes
Class 10 has 23 events scoped to it — pre-boards, board exam window, special PTMs, prep camps, board prep camps. Class 1 has 8. By mid-September, the Class 10 coordinator is exhausted and the Class 1 teachers are wondering why nobody plans anything for the little ones.
The Class Impact card shows you the imbalance before September. Click any row to see that class's events. Add or remove until the load is fair. The chairman doesn't have to ask why — you can already show him.
Real Mondays in real schools
The Monday morning briefing. The principal opens the dashboard. Three events in the next seven days — Class 10 pre-board on Wednesday, school-wide Diwali assembly on Thursday, half-day Friday for teacher training. Screenshot. WhatsApp to department heads. Time: 20 seconds.
The unannounced chairman. Walks in at 11. Asks for the year's snapshot. Principal opens the dashboard, hits export, the chairman walks out with three printed pages — KPIs, heatmap, exam schedule, class impact. Time: 90 seconds.
The CBSE inspection. The inspector asks for the school's published academic calendar. Principal exports the PDF, hands it over. The inspector signs it as the affiliation document, with school letterhead and a verifiable URL. Time: 60 seconds.
The fee waiver calculation. Accountant needs working-day counts to prorate fee waivers for late joiners. Holiday Impact card shows January has 22 working days after holidays. Number copied into the calculation. No spreadsheet, no manual count.
What you can do from here
- Switch sessions — view AY 2024-25 historical or AY 2026-27 future calendars without leaving the page
- Click any heatmap cell to see the day's events with one-click edit links
- Click any KPI tile to drill into a filtered list of just those events
- Export the whole dashboard as a PDF with school letterhead for the management committee meeting
- Share to WhatsApp — send the PDF to the chairman or the management committee in two taps
- Read the alerts every Monday to fix small calendar issues before they cause a big one
- Use Class Impact to balance event load across classes before mid-session
See it on your school's data
20-minute walkthrough on a real CBSE / ICSE / state board school. Bring your AY 2025-26 events — we'll show you your dashboard live, on the call.
A few things worth knowing
The dashboard is for viewing, not editing. To change events, you go to Bulk Calendar Setup, the per-event edit form, or the 12-month calendar view. This is deliberate — nobody accidentally wipes a year's events from a dashboard view.
What you see depends on who you are. The principal sees everything. The class teacher sees only her class's events. The parent app shows only the events scoped to her child's class. Permissions are managed in Identity & Access Management — set up once when you onboard.
The alerts in the corner are advisories, not blockers. They flag the small things — "Eid date not confirmed", "Annual Function clashes with Class 10 pre-boards" — but they never stop you from saving an event. The principal still owns the calendar; we just point at the things worth a second look.
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7 questionsCan I export the dashboard for the management committee meeting?
Yes — one-click PDF export with your school letterhead, the session label, and today's date. The PDF includes every section: KPIs, heatmap, exam schedule, holiday impact, class impact — across three pages. Share it to the chairman's WhatsApp directly from the export dialog. No screenshot stitching, no spreadsheet rebuilding.
Who in my school can see the dashboard?
Anyone with the events.read permission — typically every staff member. PDF export needs an extra permission, usually given to office staff and the principal. Class teachers see only the events affecting their assigned class section. Parents see a read-only version filtered to their child's class. Permissions are set once in [Identity & Access Management](/modules/identity-access-management) and the right people get the right view automatically.
Can I see last year's dashboard for an audit?
Yes. Use the session switcher at the top to load AY 2024-25 or earlier. The dashboard recomputes for the selected session. Historical events are preserved indefinitely — the dashboard works for affiliation audits going back to your first year on Inkwelly. Useful for CBSE inspections, board affiliation renewals, and chairman reviews.
Does the heatmap handle days with multiple events?
Yes. When more than one event lands on the same day — say a religious holiday plus a Class 10 board exam — the cell takes the colour of the primary event and gets a small count chip in the corner. Click the cell and the popover lists every event for that day with one-click edit. Sundays always render in red, the cultural convention every Indian school grew up with.
How do the working-day numbers help with fees?
The Holiday Impact card shows you working days per month *after* holidays are subtracted — October has 19 working days, not 31. Your accountant uses that number to prorate fee waivers for late-joining students, calculate substitute-teacher payouts, and plan syllabus pacing. Until now this was hand-counted from a paper calendar; now it updates the moment you save a holiday.
Can I see exam load by class?
Yes. The Class Impact card shows event count per class from Class 1 to Class 12 (or your school's range), so you spot imbalances early. The Exam Schedule card lists every exam window in the session, sortable by date or class, with links to the [Examinations module](/modules/examinations). Click any class row to drill into that class's events.
Do the alerts block anything from saving?
No — alerts are always advisory. They flag the small things (lunar festival date not confirmed, exam clashing with a school event, no PTM in this quarter) and link straight to the offending event for one-click resolution. The principal owns the calendar; we just surface the things worth a second look on Monday morning.
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