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Navigation & Dashboard

Find your way around Collaboratory

Updated over 3 months ago

Welcome Tour

At any point, you are welcome to view a tour walking you through Collaboratory's navigation. To access the tour, click into your profile's avatar in the top-right corner and select "Show Welcome Tour" in the drop-down.


Dashboard

Your dashboard is your personal workspace in Collaboratory. To access your dashboard, simply click on, or hover over, the dashboard button in top of the left navigation panel. This will expand your dashboard options.

Your dashboard is the launching pad for accessing all of your current content in Collaboratory. This includes:

Institutional Tabs

Clicking on the name of your institution within the navigation pane will open the institutional dropdown and take you to your campus' Collaboratory homepage.

From your institution dropdown, you will have access to a variety of different actions in Collaboratory. This includes:

  • My Public Profile: Visible to the public. It shows activities, courses, and collaborators with whom you work. You can edit your public profile by clicking "Edit in the upper right corner.

  • Activities: All of the activities published in your institution's Collaboratory.

  • Search: Explore your institution’s Collaboratory for activities, partners, faculty/staff, and units by keyword, theme, location, etc. Search to find specific activities or partners working with your institution.

Administrator Tabs

If you are an administrator in your institution's Collaboratory, you will have access to administrator-specific areas.

  • Content: Take action on all administrative content (e.g., activities, units, members).

  • Moderation: Review and take action on activities submitted for publication.

  • Reports: Explore your institution's data via the reports dashboard, either from a 10,000-foot view for quick statistics or craft specific reports (e.g., by unit, focus areas, populations, funding).

  • Settings: View and edit the settings of your Collaboratory portal.

  • Vault: Archive (e.g., soft delete) content to remove it from public view.

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