Customizing Your Hub With Widgets

Owned by joe.pernick (Deactivated)
Last updated: Jul 12, 2024
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The Hub Builder allows you to use both dynamic and static widgets to customize your Hub. This will customize both the Left Menu on the web platform and the Menu on the mobile app. Follow these steps to customize your Hub.

  1. Manage the group who is hosting the hub

  2. Click on the More Tools dropdown and select Hubs

  3. Manage your hub

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  4. Complete the Hub Settings

  5. Navigate to the Dashboard button to view an overview of the Hub, including Metrics to see the data about user engagement and Promote to view and edit a flyer that you can use to help promote the Hub to users

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  6. Navigate to the Features section to edit your Left Menu on web platform and the Menu on the mobile app

  7. Drag and drop widgets from the Features list to add the widget

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Some Features are unique like “Activity Feeds” and “Logout” and can only be added once, whereas other can be added to the Hub multiple times like "Group of Menus" or "Custom List"

  1. Click on the Edit icon to customize the widget

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  2. Customize the widget - each widget has different settings but all widgets will include the following:

    • Menu Name

    • Menu Icon

    • Restriction (limit the access rights to limit the widget to certain users)

    • Colorize with your school’s color (used only for custom icons)

    • Display menu on (limit the widget to web only, mobile app only, or both web and mobile app

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Our most commonly used widgets

  • Page (web only) - a customizable home page

  • Feed - a collection of feed posts from both the community feed and the group feeds

  • My Activity Section (web only) - a list of content a user has engaged with (my events, my forms, my groups, etc.)

  • My Activity Dropdown - a dropdown version of the My Activity Section

  • Group of Menus - a customizable dropdown to host other widgets

  • Menu Section - a simple way to separate content

  • People - a list of users in the directory

  • Deep Link - a URL that opens a specific page in another app (requires an app update to work)

  • Checklists - redirect users to a specific checklist

  • Surveys & Forms - redirect users to a specific form

  • Custom List - provide information in a list format, such as an FAQ or To Do list

  • Switch Hub - an easy way to switch between hubs if you are using multiple hubs

Event Hub Specific Widgets

  • Agenda - a full event schedule set by the event coordinator

    • Includes My Events - list of events user is registered to

  • Track - a filtered view of events for a specific cohort or pathway of users

  • Information Booth - start a chat with the event coordinators

 

We recommend including at least the following widgets

  • Page (Home)

  • Feed

  • My Activity

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Please contact support@campusgroups.com with any questions.