How to open the teacher dashboard to compare multiple Google Docs

The Process Feedback for Google Docs extension can open a Writing Process Dashboard — a teacher dashboard that places multiple students’ writing processes in a single table, so you can explore and compare them without opening each report one at a time.

There are two ways to open that dashboard.

Option 1. Open the dashboard from a Google Drive folder

If all the Google Docs live inside a single Drive folder, Process Feedback places a Writing Process Dashboard button at the top of that folder. One click opens a dashboard for every Doc in the folder.

A Google Drive folder with a Writing Process Dashboard button at the top right, above a list of student documents

This option is expected to be released in October 2026. Until then, use Option 2 below. See the release updates page for the current status.

Option 2. Load process data ZIP files into the dashboard

This option works today. It requires the writing process data ZIP file for each Google Doc you want in the dashboard.

Step 1. Download the process data ZIP for each Google Doc

Open the Google Doc and click the Writing Process Report button. In the popup that opens, click Process Data instead of Open Report. The ZIP file is saved to your computer.

The Writing Process Report popup in Google Docs, with the Process Data button highlighted next to the Open Report button

Repeat this for each Doc. Step 4 below shows how to automate it.

Step 2. Load the ZIP files into the dashboard page

Open the dashboard page in the Process Feedback application, turn the Dashboard View toggle on, and then load all the downloaded ZIP files at once.

The Teacher Dashboard page for Google Docs with the Dashboard View toggle turned on, two loaded ZIP files, and the Open Dashboard button

The ZIP files are processed locally in your browser. Nothing is sent to Process Feedback servers.

Step 3. Choose your columns and open the dashboard

Click Open Dashboard, select the columns you want to see, and continue through the remaining steps. The Writing Process Dashboard opens with one row per document.

A Writing Process Dashboard table listing students with writing time, active days, last active, word count, paste count, largest paste, and a link to each full report

Step 4 (optional). Download process data automatically

Instead of clicking Writing Process Report for every Google Doc, you can set the extension to download the process data ZIP automatically as soon as you open a Doc.

Pin the extension, open its settings, and change two things:

Under Ribbon settings, select Show button but never show ribbon.
Under Other settings, check Instantly download process data.

The Process Feedback for Google Docs extension settings panel, with the ribbon setting set to Show button but never show ribbon and the Instantly download process data checkbox selected

With this mode on, you can simply open each student’s Doc in turn and collect every ZIP file without any extra clicks.