Student Dashboard
The Student Dashboard is the first view that your students see when they sign up or log in to your program. You can customize your dashboard to showcase your main products and courses, events, community posts, calendar and other custom information.
The dashboard can help you provide a better onboarding experience to new students, as well as introduce them to all the main products and events of your business, as students can understand at a glance where to start, how to access the community or keep updated on news and events.
The picture above shows an example of a dashboard that shows the student progress on top, the calendar and events on the right side, featured courses in the middle and the community's latest posts at the bottom.
You can edit your dashboard to your liking, and choose which elements to showcase and how to structure the different blocks.
If you want to add more section or change the layout of your dashboard, you can click on the Edit button (with the pen image) next to the heading "Dashboard" on the top of the page.
By clicking this, you will be able to edit the layout of the dashboard and instantly see what your changes look like.
Here, you can add or remove featured products (you can add up to 3 featured products, or choose to leave this field blank if you do not want to promote any course or product in particular) and choose whether or not to Enable Event Calendar.
You can start by selecting which elements you want to appear on the top section of your dashboard, which elements to show on the bottom, and whether or not to enable the event calendar on the side.
In the Top section, you can choose between:
- Student Progress: by default, this box will show in the top section, and it includes details about the student, their name, picture, and some stats. If the student is enrolled in a course, it will also show their progress and a button that lets them jump right back into their last viewed lesson.
- Student Progress + Start Here: this will show the student progress on the left side, and a "start here" box on the right side. Here, you could add a course or a product that you want your new students to view first when they enroll in your program. This option is only available for dashboards without the calendar/events column.
- Student Progress + Custom HTML: this will show the student progress on the left side, and a custom HTML box on the right side. The custom HTML could be used for a variety of use cases. You could add a personal message to your students, promote a product or an offer, add images, custom code and more.
The picture below shows an example of a dashboard showcasing the Student Progress + Start Here at the top, 3 featured products in the middle and community and events at the bottom.
The picture below shows an example of a dashboard with Student Progress + Custom HTML as a top section, and a list of courses as the middle section. In this example, we have skipped the featured products as chose to showcase a list of all courses instead.
If you choose to showcase featured products, these will appear under the Top section.
For the bottom section, you can choose:
- Courses: This will show a list of all of your courses. You can change the order of the courses by dragging and dropping them from Climb Outline. This option is only available for dashboards without the calendar/events column.
- Community: This will show a feed with the latest activity and posts in your community.
- Community + Custom HTML: This will show a view divided between community and custom HTML.
- Community + Events: This will show a view divided between the community and the latest events. This option is only available for dashboards without the calendar/events column.
Once you are happy with the settings of your dashboard, click on "Save Dashboard" to save.
The picture above shows an example of a dashboard that can be used by creators who do not sell any courses or products through Heights Platform but instead run a community and sell access to events.