MyNAU Tutorial

Introduction

Logging In

Moving Around

Page Layout

Tabs

Adding Content

Changing Your Skin

Now that you know how to log in to MyNAU, let's take a look at what you'll see after you log in.

Tabs

Directly below the top banner area is a strip of tab names that represent different pages of information. Clicking on a tab name will take you to that page. The name of the tab that you are currently reading will display with a different background color to indicate it as the "active" tab. In the example below, the Help tab is the active tab.

Everybody starts out with the same set of tabs in the same positions:

• Services is your front page with NAU announcements, links to campus services, LOUIE, an email channel (PortalMail), and tools to search for NAU people, departments and web sites.
• Today@NAU keeps you up-to-date with what's happening at NAU, including an events calendar, NAU news and athletics headlines, a link to the online version of the student newspaper, weather channels and What's New at the Library.
• Learning gives you access to your Blackboard Vista courses and also contains a Cline Library tool to search for online materials, as well as links to Distance Learning services. Students will see a channel that lets them estimate their GPA.
• Community connects you to campus life and beyond: film schedules, classified ads, local news and events, student organizations, and entertainment.
• Help provides basic help information about how to use MyNAU, as well as a button to link to more extensive help information. There's also a list of all the channels that are available in MyNAU (not all channels are provided by default; you can pick and choose among many to add to your layout). In case you still have questions, there's a list of contact information in the Technical Support channel.
• My Stuff includes three channels specific to you: Bookmarks, My Memos and RSS Selector. Anything you enter in these channels is seen only by you and will be saved for you. There's also an introduction to the My Stuff tab that will help get you started in customizing MyNAU the way you want it.

You can rearrange the tabs, change what's on them, and even add your own tabs. The Tabs lesson in this tutorial discusses how to customize your tabs.

Channels

The channels are the boxes of information on each of the tabbed pages. A channel can contain anything from a single image link (for example, Flagstaff Events or MovieFone on the Community tab), to a list of links (Student Services or Faculty/Staff Links on the Services tab), to a complete web tool that lets you accomplish some task (PortalMail for reading and sending email, Directory Services to search for NAU people and departments, etc.).

In the upper right-hand corner of each channel are buttons that control the channel's appearance.

FOCUS puts the channel in "full screen" mode; it will take up the entire MyNAU page. Click the "Return to Tabs" link to return to normal view.
MINIMIZE collapses the channel so that only the title and control buttons are visible.
MAXIMIZE expands a minimized channel to display its content
DETACH opens the channel in a new browser window. This allows you to print a channel's contents.
REMOVE deletes the channel from your MyNAU layout. The channel will no longer display until you subscribe to it again. (Some channels are required and cannot be removed.)

In addition to these buttons, there may be other buttons to add functionality to a channel.

HELP will display help information about the channel.
EDIT allows you to change settings for the channel.
ABOUT will display additional information about the channel.

Introduction

Logging In

Moving Around

Page Layout

Tabs

Adding Content

Changing Your Skin