Intended Audience: Administrators
Summary
Choose
from 3 types of banners in your portal's dashboard and catalog, to welcome your
learners, promote courses, or add reminders.
Add
multimedia or image banners to support your brand, share messages about coming
courses, and provide call to action links.
On
the dashboard, the banners rotate every 7 seconds.
On
the internal catalog, you can set how often the banners change, from 5 to 30
second intervals.
Note:
The banner controls for your dashboard and your internal catalog are
separate. You can use different images and messages in each area.
The dashboard is
the default view for learners when they log in.
The internal
catalog is available from learners' main navigation.
When
you upload images you can crop and resize them to fit the dimensions provided,
and add alt-text to ensure you meet accessibility standards.
Dashboard banner
setup
This
procedure sets the banner options for your learners' dashboard, before you
upload and edit each banner.
- From main navigation go
to Settings > My Portal > Dashboard Settings and Banners.
- Select Dashboard
Banners > Edit Banners.
- In Dashboard Banners,
select Enable dashboard banners? and choose a banner
style:
- Multimedia Banner
- Image Banner
- Centered Content
- Save to finish.
The
following screenshot shows the Dashboard Banners card.

Catalog banner setup
This
procedure sets the banner options available for your internal catalog, before
you upload and edit each banner. When you set up and enable 2 or more banners
from the list of 5 available, the Interval between each slide option
appears, to set the pace for the banner changes.
- From main navigation go
to Settings > Internal Course Catalog > Banners.
- In Dashboard Banners,
select Enable catalog banners?
- Select a banner style:
- Multimedia Banner
- Image Banner
- Centered Content
- Save to finish.
The
following screenshot shows catalog banner settings, with Enable catalog
banners? turned on, Multimedia Banner selected, 2 of
5 banners enabled, and Interval between each slide set at 15
seconds.

- Select Multimedia
Banner 1, and select Edit Banner to open
the Multimedia Banner page.
- The Multimedia Banner page
provides controls to assemble your banner including:
- Background Color:
use the color picker, RGB or hex code to choose a color
- Text color: use
the color picker, RGB or hex code to choose a color
- Multimedia Banner
Heading: enter text
- Short Description:
enter text up to 220 characters
- Use Video:
enter a YouTube or Vimeo URL
- Use Image:
upload an image
- Optionally: for Button
options, toggle Display call to action button?
- Add Button
Text: up to 20 characters
- Select one of: Button
opens dialog or Button is a Link
- For Dialog
Content: enter text which appears in a dialog box.
- For Button is
a Link: enter the link address
- Save to preview
your changes.
Add an image banner
- Toggle Image Banner
1, and select Edit Banner to open the Image
Banner page.
- Upload an image to display in
the banner. Image banner size is 1540px x 320px, and up to 300Kb in
size. Smaller images appear centered in the banner space.
- Optionally: toggle Promotional
Banner is link to a page? and enter a destination URL.
- Save to finish.
Add centered content
- Toggle Centered
Content, and select Edit Banner to open
the Content Banner page.
- Use the CK Editor to enter
and format text, and add an image.
- Choose settings for:
- Allow learners to
hide message?
- Show date last
updated to learners?
- Save to finish.