The Course Dashboard Home Page
The Course Dashboard on the Schoology home page enables you to display all your courses as a tiled list. From the Course Dashboard, click any one of your courses and go directly to its main landing page.
- To learn more about Course Dashboard on the iOS app, see this article.
- To learn more about Course Dashboard on the Android app, see this article.
You can also access the Recent Activity area, 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.
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
- Setting the Default Home Page for your Enterprise Organization
- Setting the Default Home Page for Enterprise Organizations with multiple schools
Setting the Default Home Page for your account
- Click the down arrow in the upper-right of the screen, next to your name, and select Settings.
- Scroll down to Other Options at the bottom of the page.
- Under Set Home Page To:—select Recent Activity or Course Dashboard.
- 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.
- As a System Admin, click Tools in the header and select School Management.
- Scroll to the Set Default User Home Page to: setting at the bottom of the page.
- Select Recent Activity or Course Dashboard.
- Click Save Changes to apply.
- 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:
- As a System Admin, click the down-facing arrow in the top right of Schoology.
- Click the name of your organization in the drop-down menu.
- From the organization profile, a list of schools appears on the right side.
- Click the name of the school for which you'd like to set the default home page.
- Click School Options under the school profile photo.
- Select Edit Privacy from the drop-down menu.
- Scroll to the Set Default User Home Page to: setting at the bottom of the page.
- Select Recent Activity or Course Dashboard.
- Click Save Changes to apply.
- 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.
Organizing the Course Dashboard
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.
Alternatively, you may reorder courses from My Courses:
- Click Courses and select My Courses.
- From the Manage Courses panel, click Reorder Courses.
- Drag and drop the tiles in the desired order.
Comments
2 comments
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.
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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