Getting around: menu, search and your profile

The parts of the screen that are the same everywhere, and the settings that are yours rather than your institution’s.

4 min read · For: Everyone with an account

Every page has the same frame: your institution’s menu down the left, search and your own account along the top. Both are worth two minutes, because everything else is reached through them.

The menu

• Overview is the dashboard. Curriculum holds Programs, Courses, Rubrics and Approvals. Quality assurance holds Learning assessment, Evidence, Reports and the Syllabus archive. Catalog opens the public pages in a new tab. Administration holds Activity and Settings.
• Each heading folds and unfolds, and remembers how you left it on that device. The group holding the page you are on always stays open, so the highlighted item is never hidden.
• Support at the end writes to the Lecon team — what works, what does not, what you would like to see. Replies come to your email.
• Collapse menu at the bottom narrows the menu to icons. Your institution’s address is printed under it, which is the address to give colleagues.
• What appears depends on your role and on which features your institution has turned on, so two people may see different menus.

Search

The box at the top searches course codes, course names and descriptions, and program names. Results come back grouped into programs and courses, each line carrying the programs a course belongs to and its status, so you can tell an approved course from one under review before opening it.

Your profile

Your name in the top right opens your profile. What is here is yours, not your institution’s.

Your details

Full name, job title, email, phone and a picture. These appear on approvals, comments and the activity log, so they are worth getting right. Your role is shown but not editable — only an institution admin changes that.

Notifications

Three switches: email me when an item reaches my level, email me decisions on items I proposed, and a weekly summary of everything in review. Your institution decides what is sent at all, under Settings → Users and sign-in → Notifications; this narrows it to what you want.

Your approval responsibilities

The processes and levels you sit on, each with the number of items waiting there, so you can see why things arrive for you. Only an institution admin can change your role or your levels.

Two-step sign-in

A code after your password, so a stolen password is not enough on its own. Set up two-step sign-in offers two ways to get the code: emailed to you, or from an authenticator app on your phone. Your institution can require it of everyone who signs in with a password, under Settings → Users and sign-in → Sign-in & Security; when it does, you may still choose the authenticator app over email.

Change password

Not shown when your institution signs you in through single sign-on.