Familiarizing Yourself with a Course Dashboard
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When you launch a course, you encounter a dashboard initially. The dashboard’s interface is mostly self-explanatory but let's take a quick look at it.

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The first three sections are related to the user interface of the **Notebook Dashboard** with a wide variety of extensions. The **Formgrader** supplies core access to nbgrader instructor tools. The **Assignments** tab provides a list of extensions of viewing, fetching, submitting, and validating an assignment.