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title: Navigating Your Dashboards (Public vs Local)
url: "https://www.parseceducation.com/learn/navigating-your-dashboards-public-vs-local/"
updated: "2026-08-17"
category: Parsec Clarity
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# Navigating Your Dashboards (Public vs Local)

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# Navigating Your Dashboards (Public vs Local)

    Last updated August 5, 2026    ~5 minute read

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## Why this matters

Clarity has a lot of dashboards, split into two categories — Public and Local — that draw on very different data. Knowing which is which (and how to jump between them) gets you to the right view fast instead of scrolling through everything.

## Who it's for

- **Administrators and site leaders** pulling state or local data for a quick read
- **Longtime Parsec users** adjusting to the new Public/Local naming (formerly Standard/Premium)

## Step-by-step

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### Start on your homepage

Once you've logged in, confirm you're in the right spot and the right workspace — your name and workspace name are both on screen. A workspace might be your district or a specific site, and you may have more than one.

  ![The Parsec Clarity homepage showing your name and current workspace.](https://www.parseceducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Screenshot-2026-08-05-at-12.05.55-PM-scaled.png) Confirm your name and workspace before you start.      2

### Open Dashboards

Click **Dashboards** in the left-hand navigation. You'll see a lot of them — so there are two ways to find what you need:

- **Type to search** — if you just want your state test dashboard, typing the name is quick and dynamic
- **Filter by category** — use the Public/Local dropdown (next step)

  ![The Dashboards area in Parsec Clarity with the search field and category dropdown.](https://www.parseceducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Screenshot-2026-08-05-at-12.06.22-PM-scaled.png) Open Dashboards, then search by name or filter by category.      3

### Filter between Public and Local

The dropdown on the left filters between the two categories:

- **Public** — built on publicly available research file data (this is everything that used to live under Standard). These dashboards got a facelift in the new edition of Analytics.
- **Local** — student-level data (everything that used to live under Premium)

  ![The Public/Local category dropdown filtering the dashboard list in Parsec Clarity.](https://www.parseceducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Screenshot-2026-08-05-at-12.06.39-PM.png) Use the dropdown to switch between Public and Local dashboards.

**Nomenclature shift:** If you've been with Parsec a while — Public is the old Standard, and Local is the old Premium. Same idea, new names.

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### Jump into a Local dashboard

Click a dashboard's name and scroll down to reach your Local dashboards. Pick one — for example, iReady — and it pulls in your student-level data.

  ![Opening a Local dashboard such as iReady, showing student-level data in Parsec Clarity.](https://www.parseceducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Screenshot-2026-08-05-at-12.13.21-PM.png) Open a Local dashboard like iReady to see your student-level data.

That's the core distinction: **Public is research file data; Local is student-level data.** Vary your view with the dropdown filter, or type a specific name.

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