Appearance, themes & menus

The cosmetic and layout settings. Nothing here can break anything, so experiment freely.

Appearance

Sidebar → Settings → Appearance

Colours and visual style for the panel. Separate from your logo and platform name, which live in platform settings.

Match your brand colour once

Set it here and it carries through the panel. Schools on their own domains still differ — their branding wins on their own address.

Dashboard themes

Schools can be given different dashboard designs. Set the platform default, and each school can be moved to another.

There is also a "Try Designs" option in the top bar that previews a theme for your current session only — nothing is saved, so you can look before committing a school to it.

Dashboard actions come from the role menu

A dashboard's shortcuts are built from what that role can actually reach. If an action is missing from a dashboard, the cause is the role's permissions or menu, not the theme.

Menu Builder

Sidebar → Settings → Menu Builder

Controls what appears in the sidebar for each role — so a teacher's menu can differ from an accountant's.

Hiding a menu is not a permission

Removing an item from a menu tidies the screen. It does not stop someone reaching the page another way.

If a role must not access something, remove the permission, not just the menu entry. See who does what.

Most installations never need this. Reach for it when a role is cluttered with modules that school does not use — though switching the module off for that school is usually the better answer.

Ready templates

Sidebar → Templates

A library of ready-made document templates — certificates, ID cards and similar — organised by category and searchable, that schools can use instead of designing from scratch.

Stock templates shorten the first week

A school that can print a leaving certificate on day one feels the system is finished. One that must design one first feels it is a kit.

Adding a few good templates per category is high-value, low-effort work.

Where each branding setting lives

Easy to lose track of, so:

To change	Go to
Platform name, logo, favicon	Platform settings
Panel colours	Settings → Appearance
Word for Class / Section / Subject	Academic wording
A school's own logo and name	That school's own settings
The login screen a school sees	Custom domains & white-labeling
App name and icon	Building the apps