When you log on to myHeritage, you are on the “Home” page. It looks something like this, although your page may show a more updated version of myHeritage and fewer tabs. The photos will still help you to navigate the site.
- Main Menu: These tabs bring you to the main areas of myHeritage. Home is where you will be spending most of your time. Files will give you access to things like minutes and handbooks, depending on privacy settings. You can check the Institutional Calendar by clicking on the Calendar tab, and you can order textbooks and buy Heritage swag from the bookstore.
- Your profile picture: If you click on the down arrow, you will find a drop-down menu that allows you to edit your profile, change your settings, or log out. The settings tab gives you control over things such as your email signature, your privacy settings, and whether your birthday is publicly announced (the default is that it will be announced).
- You can enter your phone number here if you wish to receive text notifications. You can also enter your phone number under the settings tab found by your name. If you have already entered a phone number for text notifications, this banner will not appear. This phone number will not appear publicly. Texts will come from Populi, not directly from whoever is texting you.
- Navigational Tabs: The number and type of tabs you have here will differ depending on your role at Heritage and on what section of the main menu you are in. The Home tab will always bring you back to this startup page.
- Search: By using this feature, you can search for any myHeritage user, including faculty, staff, administration, alumni, and students. You will be able to access all public information about that user. The search feature has been moved to beside your profile picture in recent updates of myHeritage.
- The Feed: This is an automatically-generated internal (as in, available only to myHeritage users) social media feed that allows students and profs to communicate in an informal way. You can follow people and be followed, and when the people you follow post updates, their stories will appear here in your Feed.
- Events: This is an automatically-generated list of events from your calendar. More details on how to use this feature can be found under the “Academics” section.
- To-Do: Your to-do list will contain items that you have set for yourself to do, and items that others have assigned for you to do. To add your own items, click on “Add items” and fill in the pop-up box. You can add items for other people to do by switching the “assigned to” from “me” to “someone else” and then typing in that person’s name.
- Courses: This is an automatically-generated list of the courses you are teaching for each semester. You can change the semester by clicking on the “show” tab, and selecting the semester you wish to see. Each course listed is a live link which will bring you to that course’s page.