Personalizing Your Campus Start Page

All of the features of this page will not work or show until you are logged into your account.

The links to your personal calendar, your email account and your docs and spreadsheets will wok after you log in. You will also find News updates posted here about new features added to the campus project. The Google Talk gadget is intended for use with the Online Writing Center Assistance Project. You can meet them online and use the text chat feature while discussing your writing assignment in Google Docs. You need to arrange this appointment in advance, of course.

The Writing Center Calendar can be seen by clicking on the link. You can see the days and hours it is open and appointments made for online Writing Center assistance.

Your email and your Google Docs files will also appear in the left column after you log in.

The center and right column can be customized by you. You merely remove the "gadgets" you don't want to show and then add the ones you do want. Here are directions to do remove and add "gadgets."

To remove gadgets from the Start page click on the X that appears in the top right corner of the gadget you want to remove. Example:

 

To add gadgets click on and you can then select from a wide range of options:

You can select from any of the categories and view the options. When you find a gadget that you want to add, merely click on the Add It Now button.

Example:

 

Then click on the top left image: to return to your Start page.

You can add and remove gadgets from the center and right columns as often as you wish.

You can rearrange the gadgets, moving them up, down or to another column by clicking on the top brown bar of the gadget, holding down the mouse button and dragging them to a new location.