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Student Dashboard Overview

📊 RTS Home Base​

The RTS Dashboard serves as a dynamic workspace and reflective ledger for each student’s journey from Research to Story.

Rather than treating RTS as a linear checklist, the dashboard visualizes each student’s unique path across the Movements and Remix Modules. It supports exploration, decision-making, and reflection by giving students a persistent view of their evolving project.

🧭 Key Features​

  • Movement Progress Tracker: A visual indicator showing which Movements the student has engaged with, which are in progress, and which are complete. Students can revisit or extend any Movement at any time.
  • Reflections Ledger: Every reflection prompt and response is timestamped and saved. Students can return to past thoughts, trace the development of their inquiry, and even tag or highlight meaningful shifts in perspective.
  • Deep Dive Generators: Each of the five Interaction Design categories (e.g., *Personal Connection & Curiosity, *Research Potential & Narrative Arc, *Audience Awareness & Research Impact, *Unfolding Inquiry & Researcher's Journey, *Synthesizing for the Listener) becomes its own space for further questioning. Students can launch extended AI interactions on a category they want to explore more deeply.
  • Synthesis Snapshots: AI-generated summaries, mirror responses, and keyword suggestions are archived and viewable at a glance, helping students stay grounded in what they’ve learned and how it connects.
  • Production Planning Tools: Timeline builders, asset organizers, and mini-workflows will help students move from research and reflection into audio production with clarity and resilience.
  • Opening The Black Box: The dashboard allows students to revisit these reflections as a meta-inquiry into their relationship with compositional tools like audio editors, transcription apps, citation managers, or metadata systems. These aren’t hurdles to jump; they’re rhetorical spaces that shape how knowledge is made, framed, and shared.

By returning to these reflections, students can:

  • Track their evolving relationship with the tools of scholarly production
  • Recognize patterns of struggle, breakthrough, or resistance
  • See tools as sites of meaning-making, not just delivery mechanisms

🌀 Why the Dashboard Matters​

The dashboard makes reflection visible. It gives students a home base within the RTS ecosystem and serves as a space of ongoing inquiry. It allows for recursive thinking, nonlinear progression, and just-in-time scaffolding.

Rather than moving “forward” toward a grade, students move inward toward understanding, and outward toward impact.