Homepage
On the homepage of your academy, you will find all the learning journeys, online learning offers, and (online) meetings that you are linked to as a trainer/mentor or participant. Your participants will see, in the same way, the offers they have been added to.
The learning journeys are sorted alphabetically by default unless a start/end date has been added to the learning journey. Read here more about the order of learning journeys.
The other learning journeys, to which you are not linked as a trainer/mentor or participant, can be found via academy management under learning journeys.
You can fully customise your homepage. To do this, go to the 'branding' page via academy management.
In the screen you will see, you can do the following:
Set the language of the interface. This changes the language of all the standard buttons in your academy for both yourself and your participants. Good to know: participants can choose under their profile or upon first sign-in whether they want to see the language you have chosen or display the interface in another language.
Header image: here you can choose an image to be displayed on the homepage. The maximum size is 1440 px by 300 px.
Title: here you set the title of your academy, which you will see on the homepage. You can change the colour of the title using the droplet icon.
Description: here you can add an introduction text. This will be displayed on the homepage, just above the learning offerings.
Click on 'more settings' to adjust even more to your liking!
Logo & colours: choose the logo that will be displayed on your homepage and optionally set a favicon. The favicon is the icon displayed in the browser tab when someone has your academy open. Use this article to set up your branding colours.
Login page: choose an image that a participant sees on your academy's login page. Want to check how it looks? Log out by clicking on your profile picture (top right corner on the homepage).
Introduction panel: this is the screen participants see when they first enter your academy. Adding an introduction panel is optional. You can use it to welcome participants or provide some information (or even request information, as that’s possible too!). We will go into more detail on this later in the article.
Extra menu button: this allows you to add an extra button to your homepage. We’ll also cover this below.
Points system: a points system allows you to award points to participants' portfolios via certificates and portfolio items.
If you choose to use an introduction panel, make sure the checkbox is ticked, and add a title and text in the description field. You can always find the introduction panel by clicking on your profile picture and selecting 'Introduction'.
Are you familiar with HTML? You can use HTML in the introduction panel to create, for example, links to other web pages. Below are some possibilities:
You can also ask a specific question to your learner upon entry. For example, do you want to know the learner's role? And/or which department they work in? You can do this as follows:
Go to 'Settings' > 'Categories' via management.
Click on 'add other category types here'.
Click on 'new category' and choose 'user'.
What do you want to ask? Add it in the name field. For example: "department".
Make it adjustable by users if you want this category to appear on the introduction screen.
Also tick 'mandatory for users' so that a person can only save their details if the field is filled in.
Now choose the question type. If you choose fixed values, you also add options. An example of this type of question is shown below. When a participant clicks on the field, a dropdown menu opens with the options you have set.
Would you like to add extra items to your menu, such as a link to your webshop? You can also arrange this via the branding settings.
Below is an example of a custom menu item. You choose the icon for the button and can then add one or more links to external pages underneath.
Choose an icon for the item you want to create.
Enter the text that should appear with the button (for example, 'Webshop').
Enter the correct URL (including https://). For example: https://pluvo.com.
Click 'update academy' and you're done!
Curious about an example? Below you can see how the 'shop' and 'website' buttons from the previous image were created.
The learning journeys are sorted alphabetically by default unless a start/end date has been added to the learning journey. Read here more about the order of learning journeys.
The other learning journeys, to which you are not linked as a trainer/mentor or participant, can be found via academy management under learning journeys.
Customising the look & feel of your homepage
You can fully customise your homepage. To do this, go to the 'branding' page via academy management.
In the screen you will see, you can do the following:
Set the language of the interface. This changes the language of all the standard buttons in your academy for both yourself and your participants. Good to know: participants can choose under their profile or upon first sign-in whether they want to see the language you have chosen or display the interface in another language.
Header image: here you can choose an image to be displayed on the homepage. The maximum size is 1440 px by 300 px.
Title: here you set the title of your academy, which you will see on the homepage. You can change the colour of the title using the droplet icon.
Description: here you can add an introduction text. This will be displayed on the homepage, just above the learning offerings.
More settings
Click on 'more settings' to adjust even more to your liking!
Logo & colours: choose the logo that will be displayed on your homepage and optionally set a favicon. The favicon is the icon displayed in the browser tab when someone has your academy open. Use this article to set up your branding colours.
Login page: choose an image that a participant sees on your academy's login page. Want to check how it looks? Log out by clicking on your profile picture (top right corner on the homepage).
Introduction panel: this is the screen participants see when they first enter your academy. Adding an introduction panel is optional. You can use it to welcome participants or provide some information (or even request information, as that’s possible too!). We will go into more detail on this later in the article.
Extra menu button: this allows you to add an extra button to your homepage. We’ll also cover this below.
Points system: a points system allows you to award points to participants' portfolios via certificates and portfolio items.
Introduction panel
If you choose to use an introduction panel, make sure the checkbox is ticked, and add a title and text in the description field. You can always find the introduction panel by clicking on your profile picture and selecting 'Introduction'.
Using HTML in the introduction panel
Are you familiar with HTML? You can use HTML in the introduction panel to create, for example, links to other web pages. Below are some possibilities:
| Function | HTML | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Line break or new line | <br> for a line break or <br><br> for a new line | Create your own academy with Pluvo.<br><br>Start now! |
| Link text | <a href="[url]"></a> | Create your own academy on <a href="https://www.pluvo.co/">our website</a> |
| Bold text | <b></b> | <b>Try it now!</b> |
| Italic text | <i></i> | <i>Creating e-learning with Pluvo is super easy!</i> |
You can also ask a specific question to your learner upon entry. For example, do you want to know the learner's role? And/or which department they work in? You can do this as follows:
Go to 'Settings' > 'Categories' via management.
Click on 'add other category types here'.
Click on 'new category' and choose 'user'.
What do you want to ask? Add it in the name field. For example: "department".
Make it adjustable by users if you want this category to appear on the introduction screen.
Also tick 'mandatory for users' so that a person can only save their details if the field is filled in.
Now choose the question type. If you choose fixed values, you also add options. An example of this type of question is shown below. When a participant clicks on the field, a dropdown menu opens with the options you have set.
Extra menu button
Would you like to add extra items to your menu, such as a link to your webshop? You can also arrange this via the branding settings.
Below is an example of a custom menu item. You choose the icon for the button and can then add one or more links to external pages underneath.
How to create a menu item?
Choose an icon for the item you want to create.
Enter the text that should appear with the button (for example, 'Webshop').
Enter the correct URL (including https://). For example: https://pluvo.com.
Click 'update academy' and you're done!
Curious about an example? Below you can see how the 'shop' and 'website' buttons from the previous image were created.
Updated on: 04/10/2024
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