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Portal Navigation
When you first log-in to the system, you will see a set number of tabs with predefined channels. This layout has been created with content relevant to your specific role (student, faculty, etc.). You may also add new tabs to your personal layout and populate them with other channels to which you are able to subscribe, or with any URL to which you want to link.
You will see your custom navigation bar consistently across the top of each page.
Consider this navigation bar your roadmap to accessing the various points of interest within the system. The navigation bar consists of two main areas of navigation: the tabs, which will give you access to different sections of content, and the applications, which are represented as icons across the top right-hand side of the page (groups, log-out, email and help).
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Interface and Layout:
CSPConnect’s user interface is based on a tabs-and-columns structure. Each of the tabs on the default interface consists of 3 columns. Each column contains one or more channels of information. Users are allowed to add additional tabs and/or reconfigure the existing tabs and columns. You may also add, delete, or move channels/
Tabs:
Tabs display individualized Channels with content customized to your role(s). Faculty will see different tabs than students. Some tabs you may see are Home and Library.
Channels:
This system provides content through channels. Channels are differentiated from each other by a bold rule, and each contains a title and a tool bar. In general, channels provide at-a-glance information with click through links for expanded information. Some channels you see include: personal announcements, and campus announcements. The internal channel toolbar may provide options such as the ability to delete the channel, maximize the channel, minimize the channel (thereby removing the text by preserving the title), or even get help topics about the channel.
Personal layout and content customization:
By default, CSPConnect provides great flexibility for you to customize the tabs and channels in your layout. You may be able to delete or move some but not all channels.
In general the system allows you to:
- Add tabs
- Modify tabs to remove them from your layout, move tabs to a new position, rename them, or change the way the tab opens.
- Add columns to a tab.
- Modify columns to reorder or delete them.
- Add channels to new or existing tabs.
- Modify channels to move them to other tabs, reorder channels on a given tab, or delete channels from a tab. To modify tab and channel properties or to add new tabs and channels to the layout, see the Adding a Channel and Adding a Tab part of the Wiki.
