---
title: "Dashboard settings"
slug: "dashboard-settings"
tags: ["Site Administrator", "Reference", "Totara Platform"]
updated: 2025-07-22T10:52:18Z
published: 2025-07-22T11:18:07Z
canonical: "totara.help/dashboard-settings"
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://totara.help/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Dashboard settings

When you edit a [dashboard](/19/docs/what-is-a-dashboard) you will see the following settings, mostly around availability:

| **Setting** | **Description** | **Notes** |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Name | The name of the dashboard. | - |
| Locked | Tick to prevent users from customising this dashboard themselves. | - |
| Display order | Set the dashboard’s position in the list, with lower numbers appearing first in the list. The list starts at 0, which represents the top position. | **Available from Totara 19.1** Leaving this field blank will add the dashboard to the bottom of the list of dashboards. |
| Allow guest access | Tick to allow those accessing the site as a guest (non-logged in user) to see this dashboard. | - |
| Availability | The options are: - Available to no users - Available to all logged-in users - Available only to the following audiences | - |
| Assigned audiences | If you set **Availability** to **Available only to the following audiences** you can then use the **Assign new audiences** button to choose the desired audiences. | - |

![Course badge](https://cdn.document360.io/a007399b-031e-436b-999a-528240e16f58/Images/Documentation/course-badge_dashboards-basic-theming(1).svg?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-06T06%3A45%3A19Z&se=2026-11-06T07%3A45%3A19Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=1giwiygPUg4KhVLMZaYt4pGy0IUlw%2BaHUOWyTtrtudw%3D)The Totara Academy has a whole course dedicated to using [Dashboards and basic theming](https://totara.community/mod/page/view.php?id=23503) in Totara. Here you can learn more on how to customise your site's appearance, see best practice, and give it a go yourself.

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