When you edit a dashboard you will see the following settings, mostly around availability:
Setting | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|
Name | The name of the dashboard. | - |
Locked | Tick to prevent users from customising this dashboard themselves. | - |
Display order | Set the dashboard’s position in the list, with lower numbers appearing first in the list. The list starts at 0, which represents the top position. | Leaving this field blank will add the dashboard to the bottom of the list of dashboards. |
Allow guest access | Tick to allow those accessing the site as a guest (non-logged in user) to see this dashboard. | - |
Availability | The options are:
| - |
Assigned audiences | If you set Availability to Available only to the following audiences you can then use the Assign new audiences button to choose the desired audiences. | - |
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The Totara Academy has a whole course dedicated to using Dashboards and basic theming in Totara. Here you can learn more on how to customise your site's appearance, see best practice, and give it a go yourself.
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