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.
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 | Individual basic functions can, for example, offer quick access to create or import a course or learning resource. The quick access to the question bank for test resources is also included in this portlet. | |
 | 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 that 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 | In this portlet, information about your institution is displayed. Only the institution’s administrators as well as system administrators can customise the content of the portlet for their institution. |
 | Interesting Information | This portlet provides a general search field to find resources and displays courses that may sound interesting to you in preview boxes. For this purpose, the most frequently opened courses for one month will be selected from your course catalogue. The search period can be altered in the configuration view of the portlet. |
| Course News | Here you can see messages from subscribed courses. |
| News | In this portlet, interesting information about the learning platform is displayed. |
 | My Events | This portlet shows all upcoming dates for the next 7 days from your calendar. |
 | My Notes | This portlet provides you with a quick access to your course notes. |
Depending on the content you usually rely on 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.
Add portlet
To add a portlet to the home page, proceed as follows:
| 1 | Open the tab Home page. |
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| 2 | Click on Add portlet. |  |
| 3 | A window opens with a list of all available portlets. |
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| 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 different portlets depends on both the configuration of the learning platform and your institution. The portlet My Notes, for example, is not available to all users. |
Delete portlet
To remove a portlet from the home page, proceed as follows:
| 1 | Open the tab Home page. |
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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. Via Add portlet, a removed portlet can be reintegrated into the home page at any time. |
Configure portlet
To customise the elements of a portlet, proceed as follows:
| 1 | Open the tab Home page. |
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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 the entry Configure. | |||||||
| 4 | The following configuration options will be offered to you depending on the selected portlet:
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Edit content of the portlet My Institution
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. |  |
| 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. |  |
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]> |  |
| You can use the following operators: | You can combine these operators with the following user attributes: |
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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.
| 1 | Open the resource you wish to set as your home page. |
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| 2 | Click on the expand icon | |
| 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. |
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| 2 | Click on the expand icon | |
| 3 | Select the entry Remove “course/learning resource” as home page. | |
| 4 | With the next login, your home page will again display portlets. |
