Optimizing use of your site tabs
Your site tabs should represent the sites you use most, named in a way that is recognizable to you. Last year, we started automatically hiding old course sites every quarter so that your site tab bar featured your newest courses. This year we’ve made more improvements to help you navigate quickly and easily to your course sites. Here’s five tips, including some old tips you may not know about.
New: See course names in tabs
By default, site tabs are named after course code, including term. Undergrads take courses in a variety of subjects (e.g. PWR, THINK, SPANLANG) and often know courses by number (e.g. CHEM-31). However, graduate students may take most of their courses in a single subject and distinguish courses by name. To show course name in site tabs, go to Preferences in My Workspace, and elect to Show tabs as: Course name/description. After clicking Update Preferences, your tabs will be renamed.
Change number or order of tabs
You can change the number of tabs that are available in your navigation by going to Preferences>Customize Tabs. By default, four tabs are displayed, but since this includes My Workspace, this actually means three sites are displayed, while the rest can be found under "More Sites.” If you have more than three active sites, you may wish to increase the number of tabs displayed at one time, or move others sites to the top of the list by selecting them and using the up arrow. If your sites are wrapping to the next row, you may want to decrease the number of tabs displayed.
New: Shortcut to tools in a site
If you want to go directly to Materials, or any other tool within a site, click the down arrow on the right of any site tab, then click a tool to go directly to that page.
Finding old sites
Course sites from the previous quarter are hidden at the start of the next term. Old sites are still available on the My Sites page, which is accessible from the two locations highlighted: in the left navigation of My Workspace, or in the More Sites tab.
Hide or unhide sites
If you find you are no longer using a site often, or are using a hidden site so often that going to My Sites is inconvenient, you can use Preferences>Customize Tabs to move sites back and forth between My Active Sites and My Hidden Sites as needed.