Setup dashboard and catalog banners

Setup dashboard and catalog banners

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. 

NotesNote: 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. 

  1. From main navigation go to Settings > My Portal > Dashboard Settings and Banners.
  2. Select Dashboard Banners > Edit Banners.
  3. In Dashboard Banners, select Enable dashboard banners? and choose a banner style:
    • Multimedia Banner
    • Image Banner
    • Centered Content
  4. 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.

  1. From main navigation go to Settings > Internal Course Catalog > Banners.
  2. In Dashboard Banners, select Enable catalog banners?
  3. Select a banner style:
    • Multimedia Banner
    • Image Banner
    • Centered Content
  4. 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. 


Add a multimedia banner

  1. Select Multimedia Banner 1, and select Edit Banner to open the Multimedia Banner page.
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. Save to preview your changes.

Add an image banner

  1. Toggle Image Banner 1, and select Edit Banner to open the Image Banner page.
  2. 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.
  3. Optionally: toggle Promotional Banner is link to a page? and enter a destination URL. 
  4. Save to finish.

Add centered content

Centered content is a basic option which positions your text and images in the middle of the banner space.  

  1. Toggle Centered Content, and select Edit Banner to open the Content Banner page.
  2. Use the CK Editor to enter and format text, and add an image.
  3. Choose settings for:
    • Allow learners to hide message?
    • Show date last updated to learners?
  4. Save to finish.




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