After logging in to the platform, the home page section will be displayed by default with different portlets. Portlets are elements that you can not only use as shortcuts, but also for the purpose of individualising your home page.

Alternatively, you can also set any course or learning resource available to you as your home page, depending on where you wish to begin in the system after logging in.

Opened home page with portlets

Content

Available portlets

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

Name of the portletPurpose

First StepsSome 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.
Symbol Favorit
Favourites

This portlet gives you an overview of all courses and groups that you have marked as favourites.

Symbol Kurs
Recently OpenedYour last opened courses are linked here.
Symbol Bestanden
Assessment ResultsYou will be shown an overview of all courses that you have already completed.
Symbol Gruppe
My GroupsThis portlet lists all groups in which you are registered as a tutor or participant.
Symbol Kurs
SupervisingThis portlet lists all the courses you are responsible for as a supervisor. It is only visible to authors.
Symbol Kurs
AttendingYou will be shown a list of all courses in which you are enrolled.
Symbol Institution
My InstitutionThis portlet displays information about your institution. Administrators for an institution and system administrators can adapt the portlet's content to their respective institution.
Symbol Neuigkeiten
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.

Symbol Neuigkeiten
Course NewsHere you can see messages from subscribed courses.
Symbol Neuigkeiten
NewsThis 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.
Symbol Kalender
My EventsThis portlet shows all upcoming dates for the next 7 days from your calendar.
Symbol Blätterstapel
My NotesThis 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.

Opened home page with portlets

2

Click on Add portlet.

Add portlet button
3

A window opens with a list of all available portlets.

List of available portlets

4Click on Add to add all desired portlets.
5The 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.

Opened home page with portlets

2

Click on the gear icon in the upper right corner of the portlet to open the configuration menu.

Open portlet configuration

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:

1Open the Home page tab.

Opened home page with portlets

2

Click on the gear icon in the upper right corner of the portlet to open the configuration menu.

Open portlet configuration

3Select the Configure.
4

The following configuration options will be available to you depending on the selected portlet:

Number of elementsDefine the number of elements to be displayed. By default, six entries will be shown. You can increase the number of elements up to a maximum of 20 entries.
RankingDefine the order of the displayed entries. You can choose between Increasing, Decreasing, and Newest first.
Select all visible entries

When you open this list, all entries available to you will be displayed. Using the checkboxes, you can select specific entries to be displayed.

If you select more checkboxes than configured in the Number of elements field, not all of the selected elements will be displayed.

If configuration restrictions prevent some entries from being displayed, a note in the title of the portlet will inform you about the number of entries that are actually available.

Configuration options in the portlet

Favourites portlet with the number of available elements

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.  

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.

Configure institution portlet
2Select the entry Edit.
3

In the editing mode, you can use the Text editor to customise the content of the portlet to your liking.

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.

Edit institution portlet

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]>
Open source code

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

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.

Set course as home page

2

Click on the expand iconin 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.

Remove course or learning resource as home page

2

Click on the expand iconin 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.