Personalise your home page
After logging in to the platform, the home page section will be displayed by default, featuring various portlets. Portlets are elements that you can not only use as shortcuts, but also to individualise your home page.
Available portlets
Depending on the system configuration, the following portlets will be available to you:
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| First Steps | Some basic functions are offered as quick access, e. g. to create or import a course or learning resource. This also includes quick access to the question bank for test resources. |
| Favourites | This portlet gives you an overview of all courses and groups that you have marked as favourites. |
| Recently Opened | Your last opened courses are linked here. |
| Assessment Results | You will be shown an overview of all courses that you have already completed. |
| My Groups | This portlet lists all groups in which you are registered as a tutor or participant. |
| Supervising | This portlet lists all the courses you are responsible for as a supervisor. It is only visible to authors. |
| Attending | You will be shown a list of all courses in which you are enrolled. |
| My Institution | This portlet displays information about your institution. Administrators for an institution and system administrators can adapt the portlet's content to their respective institution. |
| Interesting Information | This portlet provides a general search field to find resources, and it displays courses that may sound interesting to you in preview boxes. Therefore, the most frequently opened courses in one month will be selected from your course catalogue. You can also reduce the search period in the portlet configuration. |
| Course News | Here you can see messages from subscribed courses. |
| News | This portlet displays interesting information about the learning platform. Its content is also displayed on the login page and can only be edited by system administrators. |
| My Events | This portlet shows all upcoming dates for the next 7 days from your calendar. |
| My Notes | This portlet gives you quick access to your course notes. |
Activate and deactivate portlets
Depending on the content you need when working with the learning platform, you can activate different portlets and reposition them as required. The positioning is done via drag and drop. Simply drag the portlet to your favoured position.
Activate portlets
To add portlets to the home page, proceed as follows:
1 | Open the Home page tab. |
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2 | Click on Add portlet. |
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3 | A window opens with a list of all available portlets. |
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4 | Click on the Add icon under the ones you would like to have. | |
5 | The window closes and the selected portlets will be displayed on the home page. | |
6 | Move the portlets via drag and drop to your favoured position.
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Deactivate portlets
To remove portlets from the home page, proceed as follows:
1 | Open the Home page tab. |
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2 | Click on the gear icon in the upper right corner of the portlet to open the configuration menu. |
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3 | Select Hide to remove the portlet from your home page. |
Configure portlets
To customise the elements of a portlet, proceed as follows:
1 | Open the Home page tab. |
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2 | Click on the gear icon in the upper right corner of the portlet to open the configuration menu. |
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3 | Select Configure. | |||||||
4 | Depending on the selected portlet, the following settings are available:
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Edit the content of the "My Institution" portlet
Only the institution's administrators as well as system administrators can customise the content of the portlet My Institution.
For further information please refer to Institution Portlet.
Set course or learning resource as home page
For further information please refer to Set or remove Course or Learning Resource as Homepage.