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Classroom orchestration requires teachers to concurrently manage multiple activities across multiple social levels (individual, group, and class) and under various constraints. Real-time dashboards can support teachers; however, designing actionable dashboards is a huge challenge. This paper describes a participatory design study to identify and inform critical features of a dashboard for displaying relevant, actionable, real-time data. We leveraged a Sense-Assess-Act framework to present dashboard mockups to teachers for feedback. Although the participating teachers differed in how they would use the presented information (during class or after class as a post hoc analysis tool), two common emerging themes were that they wanted to use the data to a) better support their students and b) to make broader instructional decisions. We present data from our study and propose a customizable, mobile dashboard, that can be adapted to a teacher's specific needs at a specific time, to help them better facilitate learning activities. 

Classroom orchestration is a multifaceted pedagogical challenge, requiring teachers to simultaneously manage activities across multiple social levels and under various constraints. Teacher dashboards are commonly developed tools to aid orchestration; however, many fall short in real-time classrooms. To address this impediment, we used participatory design sessions with teachers to better understand their needs, based on which, we plan to build a dynamic dashboard with real-time actionable metrics.