Available portlets
Depending on the system configuration, the following portlets will be available to you:
Name of the portlet | Purpose | |
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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 the desired position.
A supplementary video is available for this function.
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:
1 | Open the Home page tab. | |
2 | Click on the gear icon in the upper right corner of the portlet to open the configuration menu. | |
3 | Select Hide to remove the portlet from your home page. A removed portlet can be reintegrated into the home page at any time via Add portlet. |
Configure portlets
To customise the elements of a portlet, proceed as follows:
1 | Open the Home page tab. | |||||||
2 | Click on the gear icon in the upper right corner of the portlet to open the configuration menu. | |||||||
3 | Select the Configure. | |||||||
4 | The following configuration options will be available to you depending on the selected portlet:
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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.
Set course or learning resource as home page
Set course or learning resource as home page
You can set any course or learning resource visible to you as your personal home page. After successful login, you will then be directed to this page.
A supplementary video is available for this function.
1 | Open the resource you wish to set as your home page. | |
2 | Click on the expand icon in the upper right corner. | |
3 | Select the entry Set “course/learning resource” as home page. | |
4 | With the next login, this course or learning resource will be displayed directly after the login. |
Change selected home page
Once you select the entry Set “course/learning resource” as home page from within another resource, this new resource will be displayed after the login.
Remove course or learning resource as home page
To display portlets on your home page again, proceed as follows:
1 | Log in to the platform. The resource currently selected as your home page opens. | |
2 | Click on the expand icon in the upper right corner. | |
3 | Select the entry Remove “course/learning resource” as home page. | |
4 | With the next login, your home page will again display portlets. |