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Course Dashboard

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The Course Dashboard Home Page

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The Course Dashboard on the Schoology home page enables users to view all their courses as a tiled list. From the Course Dashboard, click any one of your courses and go directly to its main landing page. Drag and drop the tiles to rearrange the order of your courses on the dashboard. This also rearranges the order in the Courses drop-down menu.

Notes:

Users can also access the Recent Activity view, which remains the default home page for all Schoology accounts. Users can set the default view from Account Settings, but can still toggle between both views at the top of the page.

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Setting the Default Home Page

All users can set the default home page for their own accounts to the new Course Dashboard view or the Recent Activity view. If the setting is not customized, the default view remains Recent Activity.

Setting the Default Home Page for your account

  1. Click the down arrow in the upper-right of the screen, next to your name, and select Settings.

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  2. Scroll down to Other Options at the bottom of the page.
  3. Under Set Home Page To:—select Recent Activity or Course Dashboard.

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  4. Click Save Changes to apply.

Setting the Default Home Page for your Enterprise Organization

Although you can't selectively enable or disable the Course Dashboard, Enterprise system administrators can select a default home page for users in their Enterprise organization. This setting will apply to all users in the organization who have not customized the setting in their own Account Settings.

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  1. As a System Admin, click Tools in the header and select School Management.
  2. Scroll to the Set Default User Home Page to: setting at the bottom of the page.
  3. Select Recent Activity or Course Dashboard.
  4. Click Save Changes to apply.
Important Notes:
  • This default will apply to all users in the organization who have not customized the setting in their own Account Settings. Once a user has set this default view in their own Account Settings, that selection overrides the system-level default.
  • System administrators cannot set the home page for different roles or specific users in their organizations.

Setting the Default Home Page for your Enterprise Organization with multiple schools

Enterprise system administrators of organizations with multiple schools can select a default home page for individual school buildings. For example, you can set the district-level default as Recent Activity, but set the default for all elementary schools as Course Dashboard.

Like the organization-level setting in System Settings, the school-level setting will apply to all users in the school who have not customized the setting in their own Account Settings.

Set the default home page for a school from the School Profile:

  1. As a System Admin, click the down-facing arrow in the top right of Schoology.
  2. Click the name of your organization in the drop-down menu.
  3. From the organization profile, a list of schools appears on the right side.
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  4. Click the name of the school for which you'd like to set the default home page. 
  5. Click School Options under the school profile photo.
  6. Select Edit Privacy from the drop-down menu.
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  7. Scroll to the Set Default User Home Page to: setting at the bottom of the page.
  8. Select Recent Activity or Course Dashboard.
  9. Click Save Changes to apply.
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Important Notes:
  • This default will apply to all users in the school who have not customized the setting in their own Account Settings. Once a user has set this default view in their own Account Settings, that selection overrides the school-level default.
  • System administrators cannot set the home page for different roles or specific users within a school.

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    Kim Penrod
    • Edited

    Is there any way to shrink the size of the course buttons on the Course Dashboard?   I have 14 courses this semester, and I would prefer to view them as a sortable list, or at least smaller icons so I could view more than 6 on the screen at a time.

    Thanks-

    Kim

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    Charles Black
    • Edited

    Hello Kim,

    This new course display option provides a more concise view of courses and allows you to sort the order of your courses via drag-and-drop.

    Unfortunately, there is currently no way to change the size of course photos in Schoology. You may consider adding an upvote and comment to this Feature Idea for support of customizable profile photos: https://support.schoology.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360014281154-Course-pics-different-sizes

    Thank you for sharing your feedback.

    Charles
    Knowledge Management & Community Specialist
    Schoology, Inc.

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