Player files with Dashboards Specialized user interfaces that can be built into a Player file. Dashboards look like "control panels", with buttons, sliders and display panels, and provide a mechanism by which inputs to a model can be modified within the Player. have an interface that typically looks like a "control panel", with buttons, check boxes, sliders, combo boxes and other controls.
The author of the Player file will typically embed instructions and graphics to provide instructions on the use of the model, including how to navigate the model, change parameters, run the model and view results.
You can close a Player file from within a Dashboard by clicking on the X in the upper right-hand corner of the window. (In some Player files, the author may also have provided a button in the Dashboard itself to close the file).