Menu Categories

Super administrators have the option of creating individual categories that can be displayed as a separate menu icon and optionally also as a widget in the dashboard. These categories can be filled with any learning elements (e.g., courses, seminars, videos, learning pages, course series, tests) and, like the classic course page, have a filter dropdown menu.

Creating a new category

You can create as many new categories as you like under Super Administrator Settings > Menu Categories. To do this, first enter the name of the category and then upload the desired icon. Supported formats for the icon: jpg, jpeg, png, svg; max. size: 1024 KB

 

Assign elements and users to a category

Each new category that is created will then appear in the advanced settings in the “Category” drop-down menu when creating a learning element (e.g., for courses, seminars, etc.). If you want a learning element to be displayed in a specific category, you can select it there.
If no category is selected, the learning element can be assigned as usual and will then appear for the corresponding learners in the “Courses” area.
We will show you how to assign learning elements and users to a newly created category using the example of the created category “Onboarding.”
(1) Select the desired group for which the content should be visible. In our example, we want the elements to be visible to users in “All Groups.”
(2) / (3) In the corresponding tab (in our example, “Onboarding”), click on “Add Units” to make the desired elements accessible to the selected group.
(4) Switch to the “Settings” tab to ensure that the newly created icon (in our example, “Onboarding”) is also visible for the relevant group by setting the corresponding check mark.
The icon is now visible in the menu and leads to the learning elements stored in the category:
To see the menu category and the learning content assigned to it, the corresponding group must be selected on the start page.
If you want menu categories to be displayed in the top-level group “Group,” you must check the box next to “Union groups” under Administration > Settings > Configuration.

Display a category on the dashboard

Each category created can also be optionally displayed as a widget on the dashboard. Under Administration > Settings > Configuration > Dashboard, you can activate the desired menu categories by checking the box and adjust the number of learning elements displayed on the dashboard.

With 3 elements displayed, the example category “Onboarding” appears as follows on the dashboard:

By clicking on the widget, learners are always taken to all learning elements stored in the category.

Note: The widgets displayed on the dashboard are visible to all users of the LMS client. Therefore, make sure that the contents of the corresponding categories are also assigned to all users in the group assignment.