Staff dashboard

Each competition opens onto a dashboard of live widgets. What you see depends on who you are: staff get the manager view — competition stats, recent activity, announcements, challenge health, and the support queue — while participants get their own standing and solves. Everything updates live over the same WebSocket layer as the rest of the app.

Those five are the manager view’s defaults. Since v1.6.0 it also carries a set of optional add-from-catalogue sections — extra operational panels you add when you want them and leave off when you don’t. See Manager sections below.

Rearranging it

Staff holding customize_dashboard (Judge and Administrator by default) get an edit mode. Since v1.4.0 it’s a fluid 12-column grid:

• Drag to move, grab a corner to resize — snapped to whole cells, with each widget keeping a sensible minimum size.
• Keyboard controls per section (move / resize) as an accessible fallback.
• Save / Cancel / Reset to default for your changes.

A section is on your dashboard when — and only when — it’s on the grid. In edit mode an Add section button opens a modal listing every section you don’t yet have as a card (name plus a short description); pick one and it drops in at the bottom, ready to drag and resize. Remove a section (the control on the section itself) and it goes back to the catalogue, where you can add it again later. The catalogue is scoped to your view, so the manager catalogue only offers manager sections.

Layouts persist per user — your arrangement is yours, not the competition’s. On mobile the grid stacks to a single column.

Upgrading from before v1.4.0

Layouts saved before v1.4.0 can’t be mapped onto the new 2D grid — they reset to the default arrangement once, and your next save sticks.

Manager sections

Beyond the five defaults, the manager view carries seven opt-in sections. None ship on the default layout — they surface only through the Add section catalogue above, so upgrading changes nothing until you add one. A section whose backing permission you lack just renders as an empty card.

• Unsolved challenges — published challenges nobody has solved yet, ranked by attempts, so the too-hard or broken ones stand out. Gated by view_competition_analytics.
• Difficulty progress — how many challenges in each difficulty tier have been solved, as a solved-of-total bar per tier. Gated by view_competition_analytics.
• Team activity — who’s most active right now and which teams have gone quiet, with an idle flag for anyone silent for an hour. (In solo competitions the subject is the individual, not a team.) Gated by view_competition_analytics.
• Brute-force watch — the teams submitting the most wrong flags, a flag-guessing signal. Gated by view_competition_analytics.
• Moderation feed — recent significant actions in this competition (deletions, score changes, freezes) — high-level summaries, not raw payloads. It draws a curated allowlist of audit-log events, not the full log; see the audit log. Gated by view_competition_analytics.
• Schedule & status — current status, the countdown to start or end, and whether the scoreboard is frozen. No extra permission — it’s derived from the competition itself.
• Instance health — live challenge instances by status, plus recent provisioning failures. Gated by instance_view (not analytics).

Adding sections needs customize_dashboard (Judge and Administrator by default) — the same grant that unlocks edit mode. The related manage_dashboard_widgets grant remains defined but enforced nowhere; the catalogue doesn’t use it. See the permissions reference.