02. Using the Dashboard-View Courses / Recent Activity / Tasks

The Dashboard is your landing page in LMS. Depending on your institution, your Dashboard may default to one of two views: Card View or Recent Activity View.

• Card View: displays course cards for quick access to all your favorite courses (the same courses display in the Courses link from the Global Navigation Menu)

• Recent Activity View:displays all recent activity for all courses

The Dashboard may also include global announcements, which are announcements created by your institution. To remove the announcement from your dashboard, click the Remove icon.

To change your Dashboard view, click the Options menu and select your preferred viewing option.

By default, the course card is added automatically, such as by creating a Bachelor's Interlocking course, and displays up to 20 courses.

Dashboard courses are arranged in alphabetical order by course name and role in the course. Nicknames and course codes do not affect the order of course placement.  Courses with  instructor roles are listed first, followed by TA roles and student roles.

Note : If you want to remove the default subject card settings, you  can customize the  subject list and manually select your favorite courses to display on the dashboard; if you bookmark one or more courses, only the favorite subjects will be displayed on the dashboard.

The course card displays an overview of course information, including the course name, course code, and semester [1].

Each card can contain up to four tab icons [2]. Represents the four main activities (announcements, assignments, discussions, and files) for student lecture activities.

This tab displays based on visibility and order in course navigation, so if an instructor hides the announcement link, the announcement icon does not appear on the subject card.

An unread badge on the Discussions or Announcements tab indicates that there are new discussions or announcements in the course [3].

Badge  numbers indicate the number of new items.

Course aliases appear in the dashboard, course menu, course titles, and notification emails.

Subject nickname aliases do not affect the subject name at the account or subject level. Only change the subject name for the individual user who created the nickname.

If you need to know the original name of a subject, hover your nickname to see the original name; also, the subject code is not affected and will always appear on the subject card for the subject reference.

Note :

• This feature does not currently apply to dashboard sidebar elements such as global grade pages and to-do lists.
• Course nicknames are limited to 59 characters.

Subject cards allow you to organize subjects by customizing the colors synchronized with those displayed in the subjects on your calendar. To change the color, click the card settings icon [1] and then select a new color. It indicates the color and [2], the hexadecimal color code is displayed in the text field [3].

If you want to use a color that is not displayed in the window, you can enter the hexadecimal code of the color directly in the text field.

If you do not, you will see a warning icon in the hexadecimal field, and variations of white are not allowed in the course color.

Click the Apply button [4]. 

Note: If you change the color of the course in the calendar, the dashboard also updates with the new calendar color.