To enhance your learners’ experience within your academy, you can enable the Upcoming Due Dates gadget. This gadget helps your learners easily view and keep track of their upcoming training deadlines in one convenient place.
To configure and make this gadget available, follow the steps below.
Enabling the Upcoming Due Dates Gadget
In the left navigation, make sure you are in the Academy Workspace.
When in the Academy Workspace, select Academy Admin for all Academy Administration options.
Select Configuration and then General.
On the General page, navigate to the Homepage Editor tab.
Select the preferred configuration for enabling the Upcoming Due Dates Gadget, either by choosing the default configurations or defining a custom configuration.
Then, open the Choose Gadget dropdown menu and select Upcoming Due Dates.
Click Add to save your selection and include the gadget in your configuration.
Please note that this gadget is available exclusively on the web application.
Upcoming Due Dates Gadget
This gadget displays a stream of courses and learning paths that meet the following criteria:
- They have not been completed
- The logged-in user is either self-enrolled or has been assigned to them
- They include an upcoming due date
- Up to 16 items are displayed
For each item, the gadget provides the following information:
- The training item’s thumbnail
- An Enrolled or Assigned label, depending on how the user was added
- The enrollment or assignment date
- The due date
- The item’s title
- A Quick View option, available when hovering over the thumbnail
You can also choose how the items are sorted, using one of the following options:
- By due date (Oldest to newest or Newest to oldest)
- Alphabetically (A to Z or Z to A)
- By progress (Least to most or Most to least)
When you select the View All button, you are redirected to the In Progress tab of the My Training page, where the Due soon and Due today filters are automatically preselected.