How do I make a slide deck appear on my Dashboard?
Slide decks will automatically appear on your Dashboard if you do any of the following:
- Set it as a default slide deck every day
- Set is as a default slide deck on specific days
- Make it as a one-off deck for a timetable entry
- Connect it to a timetable entry as default
Setting a slide deck as a daily default deck
- From the Dashboard left-hand side menu click on Plan.
- Click on 'Teaching Cycle' to view it either by slides, timetable, or both options together.
- Go to 'Always-available Slide Decks' and click 'Add default decks'.
- Choose the slide deck you wish to use every day.
- Your slide deck will appear as always available in the Dashboard. Click on the slide deck to expand.
- For a fuller view, you can close the left-hand side menu. Dashboard slide decks will automatically be in presentation mode unless you click 'edit'. Close the slide deck if needed by clicking its name on the top-left.
Setting a slide deck as default for a specific day
- From the Dashboard left-hand side menu click on Plan.
- Click on 'Teaching Cycle' to view it either by slides, timetable, or both options together.
- Go to the specific day of the week and click 'Add default decks'.
- Choose the slide deck you wish to use on those specific days.
- Your slide deck will be available in the Dashboard only on those specific days.
- For a fuller view, you can close the left-hand side menu. If you have multiple decks for the day, you can switch between them or close a deck by clicking its name in the top-left corner.
Setting a slide deck as a one-off deck
One-off deck for the day
- From the Dashboard left-hand side menu click on Plan.
- Go to your Week Plan and choose a specific timetable entry to connect your one-off slide deck.
Timetable entry default slide deck
- From the Dashboard left-hand side menu click on Plan.
- Go to your Day Plan to access the timetable options you've created. Expand and choose the timetable option you’d like to connect a slide deck to. If you create a new timetable entry via the Week Plan, follow the same process.
- Your slide deck will be available in the Dashboard only on the days you've added timetable entries for.
Notes:
- To remove day default slide decks, just go to your Teaching Cycle and click on the bin icon.
- To remove one-off slide decks, go to the Week Plan and click the X icon.
- To remove default connections, follow the same process you used to add the connection, but click the X icon to remove it.
- The same processes apply to embedded slides as well