Understanding Your Dashboard

Your Dashboard is the first thing you see when you sign in to AcaTrove. It provides a personalized overview of your research activities, upcoming deadlines, and quick actions -- all adapted to your academic role.

Persona-Adaptive Layout

During onboarding, you selected your primary role. AcaTrove uses this to determine which widgets, metrics, and quick actions appear on your Dashboard. Here is what each persona sees:

Professor / Principal Investigator

• Lab Overview -- Active members, recent submissions, and pending reviews.
• Publication Pipeline -- Papers in progress, under review, and recently published.
• Grant Deadlines -- Upcoming funding deadlines and active awards.
• Student Progress -- Milestones and task completion across your advisees.
• Quick Actions -- Create project, review submission, schedule meeting.

Graduate Student

• My Tasks -- Active tasks across all projects, sorted by deadline.
• Reading Queue -- Papers and documents flagged for review.
• Writing Progress -- Word counts and milestones for active drafts.
• Advisor Updates -- Recent feedback and comments from your advisor.
• Quick Actions -- Upload document, start writing session, log research hours.

Postdoctoral Researcher

• Active Projects -- Status of current research projects and collaborations.
• Publication Tracker -- Manuscripts in various stages of the submission cycle.
• Career Milestones -- Goals, upcoming deadlines, and professional development items.
• Collaboration Requests -- Pending invitations and shared project activity.
• Quick Actions -- Create project, find grants, update CV.

Administrator

• Departmental Metrics -- Research output, grant activity, and headcount summaries.
• Budget Overview -- Active budgets, spending trends, and upcoming renewals.
• Compliance Items -- IRB submissions, ethics reviews, and pending approvals.
• Recent Activity -- A feed of notable actions across the department.
• Quick Actions -- Generate report, manage users, review budgets.

Other Roles

Specialized roles such as IRB Board Member, Grant Office Staff, Librarian, Department Chair, Development Officer, and Dean each receive a dashboard tailored to their specific responsibilities. For example, a Librarian sees collection management and research support requests, while a Dean sees high-level institutional research metrics.

Dashboard Widgets

Each widget on the Dashboard is interactive:

• Click a widget title to navigate to the full view of that section (for example, clicking "Publication Pipeline" takes you to the Publications page).
• Click individual items within a widget to go directly to that project, document, or task.
• Hover over charts and metrics to see detailed breakdowns and tooltips.

Quick Actions Bar

At the top of the Dashboard, a row of quick action buttons provides one-click access to your most common tasks. These buttons change based on your role, but typically include actions like creating a new project, uploading a document, or opening the AI Writing Assistant.

Customizing Your Dashboard

While the Dashboard layout is determined by your persona, you have some control over what appears:

• Reorder widgets by dragging them to your preferred position.
• Collapse widgets you check less frequently to reduce visual clutter.
• Change your persona from Settings > Profile to switch to a different dashboard layout entirely.

Tips

• Check your Dashboard at the start of each work session to see what needs attention. The persona-adaptive design surfaces the most urgent items first.
• If your role changes (for example, from graduate student to postdoc), update your persona in Settings to get a dashboard that matches your new responsibilities.
• Use the quick actions bar to reduce the number of clicks for tasks you perform daily.
• Widgets that show deadlines use color coding: items due within 48 hours are highlighted to draw your attention.