Creating and personalizing portals

Setting up portals and widgets

Click your profile picture at the top right to access the drop-down menu and select the options for your academy. Under Pages you will find the Portals item. This is where you can create widgets. A widget is an area in the portal that displays courses or other content selected for different target groups.  A widget can, for example, display only content in a specific language.  It is also possible to display courses or news for certain groups of participants only. 

Creating new portals

This is where you can now create one or more portals, edit or delete them, and define which contents are displayed. Begin by adding a name for your new portal and click the “Add” button.

Click “Edit” to adjust the settings and content of each portal.
You can edit the title you chose in the step before. You can also change the menu label, decide whether the portal is visible to specific groups within the academy, all members of the academy or if it’s public.

Like pages, portals can be added to the main navigation area and to widgets.
In the next step, you can add widgets.

Creating new widgets

Create one or more widgets and define which contents are displayed for which target group. To create a new widget, click the “Add widget” button. First select from the drop-down menu whether the widget should contain courses/workshops, sequences, pages, or a hand-picked selection (this can also be a combination of different courses and sequences), or an RSS feed.

You can also adjust the widgets later using the “Edit” button.  Widgets that you no longer need can be removed using the “Delete” button.

You can use the = icon to reorder your widgets.

Tip: When you delete a widget, only the widget is deleted, not the content it displays. 

Defining the content of widgets

When creating a new widget or after clicking “Edit” you will be directed to the filter setup for the respective widget.

Application examples

A portal can be used to…

• … show all available courses
• … only display wiki entries created with pages
• … list all live workshops 
• … only display courses for management or other target groups