Available portlets

Depending on the system configuration, the following portlets will be available to you:

Name of the portlet		Purpose
	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 the desired position.

Activate portlets

To add portlets to the home page, proceed as follows:

1	Open the Home page tab.
2	Click on Add portlet.
3	A window opens with a list of all available portlets.
4	Click on Add to add all desired portlets.
5	The window closes and the selected portlet(s) will be displayed on the home page.
6	Move the portlet(s) via drag and drop to the desired position in order to customise your home page. The availability of the different types of portlets depends on both the configuration of the learning platform and your institution. For example, the My Notes portlet is not available to all users.

Deactivate portlets

To remove portlets from the home page, proceed as follows:

Configure portlets

To customise the elements of a portlet, proceed as follows:

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.  

 Edit institution portlet ...

To edit the content of the portlet My Institution, proceed as follows:

1	Open the home page. Click on the gear icon in the upper right corner of the portlet My Institution to open the configuration menu.
2	Select the entry Edit.
3	In the editing mode, you can use the Text editor to customise the content of the portlet to your liking.  Integrate images ... Below the text editor, you can see the content of the portlet's resource folder. This folder offers the possibility to manage stored content such as images or videos. In addition to deleting and adding resources, you can also rename your resources. Once a resource has been selected via its checkbox, the corresponding buttons will be activated above the table.

 Integrate content into the institution portlet depending on user attributes ...

Via the HTML view of the Text editor, you can display content in this portlet depending on user attributes or the system language selected. Just add the content in the following format at the appropriate position to the HTML code:

<[html-Element] data-visibility-condition="[attribut];[operator];[wert]"></[html-Element]>

 Expand to view examples ...

Example 1: To provide a link to OPAL which will be displayed to all users whose first name begins with an E, enter:

<a href="https://bildungsportal.sachsen.de/opal" data-visibility-condition="firstname;startswith;E">Link zu OPAL</a>

Example 2: To provide a text which will be displayed to users depending on the system language selected, enter:

<p data-visibility-condition="locale;equals;en">Only users who have selected English in the general user system settings under language will see this text.</p>

You can use the following operators:	You can combine these operators with the following user attributes:
contains equals startswith endswith not (e. g. "not-equals")	firstname lastname email institutionaluseridentifier institutionalname orgunit studysubject studygroup persontype termsofstudy birthday locale (refers to the system language configured by the user)

In the editing mode of the portlet, all content is displayed. In normal mode, however, the content of the portlet is displayed depending on attributes.

Set course or learning resource as home page