The menubar on the left contains buttons for many functions, described below. It is important to understand that the MyWorkspace menubar is different from a course site's menubar, although they are located in the same area and look similar. You should also know that you have no control over the order of the left menu links. Usually Home is at the top, but not always, and the rest show up in seemingly random order under.

Home: The Home button takes you to the homepage of MyWorkspace. There are two informational boxes here. The System Administrator provides content for both boxes. The upper box is an Announcements box. By clicking the Options link at at the top of the box, you can set how much of the announcement shows, the number of days in the past your announcments can be without dropping off, and how many announcements you want to view here. The lower box welcomes you to your personal workspace. You have the options of changing the title of the box and the height. That's it. After making your choices, click the Update button. Your changes should take affect immediately.

Worksite Setup: This area contains a list of your class sites. You can access the tools of a class site by clicking in the appropriate box and then on the Revise link at the top of the page. (Do NOT click on the Delete link at this time!) If you have removed the Site Info link in a class, this is the way to access the edit tools for that class.

Preferences: There are three links at the top of the page. Notifications is the area where you can set up how you want to be notified of course activity (announcements, e-mail archives and resources). The options are to be notified of all activity, to save notification and send out in a digest once a day, or to receive no notification. The Customize Tabs page allows you to organize your course tabs at the top of the window. If you have more than a few courses (say you have tabs for courses from last term or more in the past), you may want to make them invisible and you make that choice here. A final tab allows you to set your time zone.

Schedule: Viewable in a calendar or list format, the MyWorkspace schedule will contain events from all your class schedules. You can also add your own events to this calendar.

Membership: The membership feature provides a list of Current Sites that you belong to. There is a link to Joinable Sites where, conceivably you could join other sites, but we are highly recommended that no one makes their sites joinable.

Resources: In the Resources area you can store personal files (documents, images, etc.) You may choose to arrange your Resource area into folders based on different interests, or different assignment, classes or projects. It is entirely your decision. You would not want to put class resources into this area because they would not be available to anyone but you.

Account: The account area summarizes user information, such as name, e-mail and type of account. Click on Modify to change your name, email address or password. Students will also need to do that if they change email accounts or get married, divorced, etc. Changes made here are internal to the System -- it does nothing to change their college accounts in the student information system at your school.

Announcements: Announcements are created in courses by instructors. The announcement area in MyWorkspace summarizes any announcements from courses you are a member of. You cannot alter announcements in MyWorkspace -- that needs to be done in the course area where the announcement was created.

3/8/06