Feature Overview and Requirements

Introduction

LatitudeLearning® LMS streamlines Student and Manager workflows with a responsive, task-oriented user interface (UI), easily explored using a Navigation fly-in menu. This document describes the features of this interface and contrasts it with the features it replaces from the Classic user interface.

Transitioning to the responsive UI will require change management, but the benefits are clear and the process of switching itself is very simple. Additionally, organizations using Person-to-Person (Direct) management reporting will gain many benefits from the change. The responsive Student/Manager UI is designed to honor direct manager relationships in features such as My Team, which were not retrofitted to the Classic UI.

Step by Step Procedure and Field Description

Direct Users to the Navigation UI at Login

When you are ready to make the Classic UI less prominent or inaccessible to your users, you need to make some settings changes under Site Management > LMS Information > LMS Configuration section.

• Login Landing Page: Set the first page users see when they log in. If set to Navigation, they will see the icon-based Navigation page. This can be set to any page you wish, because the Navigation page options are now fully available to users if they employ the Navigation Fly-in Menu.
• Home Page: Set this to the page to which users should be directed when they click your site logo or the
  Home icon. This can be any page you wish.

Both of these settings are global LMS settings and cannot be set by organization or position group.
If Classic Home page is not specified for either setting, users are forced to use the responsive interface. Only users with Administrative rights (excludes Student and Location Manager roles) have access to elements of the Classic UI for administrative activities via the Administration icon in the LMS Header.

LMS Header Navigation

The LMS Header is always visible regardless of the user interface in use. Use it to navigate back to your established Home page, to the Navigation menu, or to Online Help. It provides Administrative users access to the Administration menu. Users with multiple profiles or with profiles at higher organizational levels can use the header to swiftly change to other profiles to get a perspective from various organizations in their purview.

1. Click the Navigation Menu at any time to navigate to another page available to the user. Icons such as My Team, Approvals, and Reports will only show for those with the roles and managerial status to view them.
2. Click the Header Logo to redirect to the Home Page established by the Portal Administrator. Configure this in Site Management > LMS Information > LMS Configuration > Home Page.
3. Click the Home icon to redirect to the Home Page established by the Portal Administrator. Uses the same setting noted in item B.
4. Use Course Search to quickly search the course catalog for a course by code, name, or keyword. You can hide this box in Site Management > LMS Information > LMS Configuration > Header Course Search.
5. Pick the Administration icon to access the Classic user interface for access to administrative tasks. This icon only appears for users with some level of Administrative rights, such as Portal Administrators, Administrators, Location Administrators, and Instructors.
6. Use the dropdown arrow next to the user’s name to:
   a. Logout
   b. Change profiles, for users with more than one available.
   –They can click an existing profile to quickly change to it.

–If they hold a profile at a higher level, such as company or business unit, they can switch to any
location within that level using a type-ahead search. Use the drop-down arrow next to the upper
organization level and start typing the name of the location. Select it from the list and then click the
Apply icon to complete the switch.

Compare the Classic and Responsive UI Features

Want to determine how the features of the responsive UI compare to those you and your users are accustomed to? Open this document to find out about all the available icons on the Navigation Fly-In menu.

Print it to use as a guide. Contact Latitude Support for an editable version you can use in your change management efforts.

The Responsive Navigation and Student/Manager Interface