Regardless of the access method (using a Gdańsk Tech account or a local Moodle account), after correctly logging into the platform, the dashboard view (i.e. account panel in the Gdańsk Tech eLearning system) will be displayed.
The dashboard displays a summary of the most important information about the system user. Sequentially, looking from top to bottom, there is:
- Timeline section - displaying reminders about any tasks resulting from the courses to which you are assigned / assigned. Information is displayed here as long as you are a participant in a course with a due date for completing a task (and this due date is within 7 days - in the default display condition).
- Recently accessed courses section - displays a list of the courses you have recently visited in your account
- Course overview section - presents a list of all courses for which:
- you have the privileges as a lecturer or manager (if you are an employee, doctoral student or student designated to manage the classes / project),
- you signed up on your own as a participant (if the course allows it),
- you have been signed in as a participant by the teacher (or by the IT system, as is the case in some compulsory and didactic courses).
The list will not display courses in which you do not have any role, ie participant or tutor.
In the Course overview section, a search engine for courses in which you have any role (participant or teacher) and a filter of displayed courses is available.
The course filter in the drop-down list (with the default value of All) allows you to visually narrow down the displayed courses in which you have any role (participant or teacher).
- The default item All allows you to display all courses, except those you have marked as hidden (to yourself) in the dashboard view.
- In progress - displays only courses where the formal start date (specified by the teacher) is earlier than the current date, and the end date specified in the course has not yet occurred with respect to the current date (i.e. formally the course has already started before, but has not yet finished)
- Future - displays only the courses whose formal start date (defined by the teacher) has not yet occurred in relation to the current date (i.e. the course has not formally started yet)
- Past - displays only courses whose formal end date (marked by teacher) has already passed from the current date (i.e. the course has formally started in the past and has passed its end date)
- Starred - displays only the courses you highlighted (i.e. marked with star) in the dashboard view. The distinction is purely visual and applies only to your account, i.e. it does not affect the appearance and settings of a given course or the distinction of the course on the accounts of other users.
- Archived - displays only courses that you have marked as archived in the dashboard view. The stealth setting is only visual and applies only to your account only, i.e. it does not affect the appearance and settings of a given course or hiding the course on the accounts of other users.
In each row/tile with courses, there is an icon of three dots - as shown in the figure below.
Clicking on this icon will bring up a context menu with two items:
- Star this course / Unstar this course (if the course is already marked with star) - allows you to mark the course with a star (highlighting the course). Then, using the odds filter set to starred, you can only view the courses that interest you as per your needs. You can withdraw a star at any time.
- Archive / Unarchive (if the course is already hidden) - allows you to visually hide the course in the dashboard view, so that by default such a course will not be displayed in your account after logging in to the platform (unless the course filter is set to the Archived position). The stealth status of a course can be revoked at any time: simply set the course filter to Archived courses, and then disable the course archived status.
The meaning of visually display changes in the Course overview section
The above-mentioned actions performed in the dashboard view in the Course overview section consisting of:
- marking/unmarking a course with star,
- marking/unmarking a course as archived (hidden)
they have only visual significance in terms of displaying information in the dashboard of a given user account of the eLearning platform. Therefore, these settings are individual for the current user profile account and do not affect the visibility or distinction of courses among other users (for whom the same courses may have very different visual status).
Example
The academic teacher has hidden the courses which he do not need in the dashboard. However, doing so will not affect the visibility (availability) of the courses for students enrolled in those courses. If the teacher wants to hide (disable) a course for the students, she/he should change the appropriate setting in that course, not in the her/his own Course overview section.