As Pascale said, it sounds like you're referring to the "Primary School" theme. It's been integrated into the standard Mahara distribution, so if you go to the "Administration -> Configure Site -> Site settings", you should see it in the "Theme" menu.
More generally speaking, the dashboard image is called the "Homepage Information" box, and its contents are controlled by the theme's "homeinfo.tpl" template file, usually in conjunction with CSS attributes from the theme's "style.css" file.
Like any theme template file, you can customize it by creating your own custom theme, or by placing an override file in your /local directory. See https://wiki.mahara.org/index.php/Customising/Themes/1.2 for more information about that.
Cheers,
Aaron
]]>to help with your search I believe the theme you are refering to is the Primary School theme that was developed for myportfolio.school.nz
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