Personal front page/Dashboard

When you log into Mitt UiB, the first thing you will see is the Dashbord. The dashboard will either show an overview over courses or an overview over recent activities. By clicking the three vertical dots on the right from the headline "Dashboard", you can choose the kind of dashboard view you prefer. You can choose between Card View, List View or Recent Activity. The colour overlay changes the brightness on your cards.

Screenshot of the menu where you can change the dashboard settings in Mitt UiB.

Examples of Recent Activity can be announcements, personal messages, assignment notifications and discussion posts. If you are a member of a lot of courses in Mitt UiB, the Recent Activity function can be a convenient choice for daily use. Either way, your courses are easily accessible from the red global menu.

You are free to choose which of your courses should be displayed on your dashboard.

The red menu to the left in Mitt UiB is the global menu, and this menu is in a fixed position and cannot be moved or changed. The right hand menu is called the right-margin menu. It is dynamic and will adapt based on which page you're currently on. When you're in dashboard-viewing mode, the coming/recent/new activities will be displayed in the right-margin menu: 'To do', 'Coming up', and 'Recent feedback'.

Global menu

The global menu is your own, and it has a fixed position. In the Account section, you can make some personal choices. The menu choice Dashboard will bring up your start page. Courses will give you your list of courses. Calendar lets you view the event information for all your courses. Inbox is the place to send and receive messages. History gives you an overview of your recently visited pages and recent activities.

Hjelp will give you guidance and the opportunity to contact user support (Brukerstøtte Mitt UiB, using the choice "Opprett brukerstøtte"). Please note that the menu choice Hjelp is only available in Norwegian. Speak up leads you to the student page called "Speak up about the student environment". At the bottom of the menu, you will find an arrow button that lets you adjust the width of your menu.

Courses in the global menu

With the Courses menu choice, you can find all your courses. You can choose "favorites" in order to display specific courses on your dashboard, and you can visit courses where you're not a member.

How to find courses you can visit as a guest:

Choose Courses in the global menu. Use the choice All courses, at the bottom of the white menu that pops up, and then choose Browse more courses on the pages that opens. This enables you to visit all the courses that allows guests to enter. As a guest, you can see all public content. However, some of the content will always be reserved for the members of the course.

How to pick favourite courses:

Choose Courses in the global menu.
Choose All courses.
Now you can mark the courses with stars. The star-marked courses are called favourites, and will be displayed on the dashboard. The favorite courses will also show up on the top of the calendar lists.
No star marking at all simply means that all the courses will be displayed on the dashboard.
Please note: When you've picked a favourite, no other courses will be displayed on the dashboard. This means that you will then have to choose Courses and All Courses in the global menu in order to find new or other courses.

Screenshot of the All Courses menu, where you can choose which courses to appear on the Dashboard in Mitt UiB.

Course front page and the course menu

When you are on the course page of a course, you can see the course menu between the main page and the global menu. You can choose to show/hide the course menu by clicking on this icon: Skjermbilde av et emneikon som brukes til å skjule emnemenyen.

The content of the course menu varies from course to course. If you click on the choice View Course Calendar in the right-margin menu on the course page, you will see the calendar events on the course level and the group level for this specific course. When you're on a course page, the content of the right-margin menu is limited to the course in question, and the link View Course Calendar will only retrieve information about the course in question.

Screenshot of what the front page of a course in Mitt UiB might look like.

Groups in the global menu

Groups in the global menu retrieves the shortcuts to all the groups that you are a member of. In the group, you can publish announcements, start discussions and publish documents that you want the other group members to access to.

If you choose "View Calendar" in the right-margin menu when you are on the group page, you will see only local calendar events for the specific group. The rest of the content of the right-margin menu is also limited to the chosen group.

Please note: When you're at the group level, everybody has access to equal rights. This goes for both students and teachers. Please be careful so you don't edit other peoples' documents, announcements and so on.