Custom Favourites on My Homepage

This article explains how to personalize your Arbor homepage using the Favourites menu, allowing users to bookmark frequently used pages and rename them for easier access. It details the default Favourites, how to add or remove pages and actions, and how to edit the names of Favourites.

Personalise your Arbor homepage with the Favourites menu. You can bookmark the pages you use most often, so you can get to them quickly and easily every day. Plus, rename your favourited pages to make them more relevant to you.

What has changed?

Everything in Quick Actions and Shortcuts is in Favourites by default.

• Items that were previously in Shortcuts have been renamed to the page name.
• The list is ordered alphabetically. Top Tip: If you want to group or reorder the list, rename the Favourites and add a marker at the beginning (such as a number).
• We have not removed any links or actions that you could previously do from your homepage.

What is in my favourites by default?

The list of Favourites available to you will vary depending on what you have permission to access, and by what Arbor Package your school has purchased.

Here is the full list of possible pages and actions that could appear in your Favourites, alongside where you would find this page using the top menu:

• All School Communications: School > Communications > All School Communications
• Attendance: My Items > My Calendar > Events
• Behavioural Incidents Reporting: Students > Behaviour > Incidents > Reporting
• Browse Staff: School > All Staff > Browse Staff
• Browse Students: Students > All Students > Browse Students
• Create Ad hoc intervention: Opens a slide over
• Create assignment: Takes you to a new page where you can create an assignment - Creating an assignment
• Create Event: Opens a slide over
• Create Intervention: Opens a slide over
• Daily Attendance: Students > Attendance > Registers > Daily Attendance
• Formative tracking: Students > Assessments > Formative Tracking
• Issue detention: Opens a slide over
• Log behaviour incident: Opens a slide over
• Record Behaviour Points (this may be called something else, depending on what your behaviour point scale is called): Opens a slide over
• Send email: School > Communications > Email > New Mail Merge Email
• Send In-App message: School > Communications > In-App Messages > New Mail Merge In-App Message
• Send SMS: School > Communications > SMS > New Mail Merge SMS
• Staff Cover: School > All Staff > Cover
• Summative tracking: Students > Assessments > Summative tracking

Add a page to Favourites

Top Tip: Any pages you favourite will show in your Favourites list only. There is no central page to edit all staff favourites.

To add a page to Favourites, navigate to the page you want to add. In the left-hand menu, click the star icon.

Click Add to Favourites to add the link to your homepage.

You can only add the main page itself, any specific page filters or hashing cannot be saved as separate favourites.

• If you want to, you can set your own name for the page in this step, or do this later. Top Tip: This name will only show on your homepage, and won't change the name of the actual page in menus or on the page itself.

If you want to, you can set your own name for the page, or do this later. Top Tip: This name will only show on your homepage, and won't change the name of the actual page in menus or on the page itself.

This is particularly relevant to adding Custom Report Writer reports to your Favourites, as the page name defaults to View Report for all reports. 

Add an action to Favourites

You can add these actions to Favourites if they have been previously removed:

• Create Ad hoc intervention - Adding an Ad Hoc Intervention session
• Create Event - Creating and managing events
• Create Intervention - Creating a quick intervention
• Issue detention - Managing Detentions and adding students to a detention
• Log behaviour incident - Logging, editing and resolving Behaviour Incidents
• Record Behaviour Points - Awarding Behaviour Points

To add them, go to the place detailed in the guidance linked above, and click the star in the slide over.

Remove a page from Favourites

Top Tip: Any pages you remove from your Favourites will not be removed from other staff member's Favourites.

You can unfavourite a default page or one you've added. Click the star on the homepage or any page where you can see the favourited page in the left-hand menu.

Click Remove to remove the link from your homepage.

Edit the Favourite name

You can rename a default Favourite or one you've added. Top Tip: This name will only show on your homepage, and won't change the name of the actual page in menus or on the page itself.

Click the star on the homepage or any page where you can see the favourited page in the left-hand menu.

Change the name, and click Update.

Please note that it is not possible to default the name to the original name.

It is possible to set the name as blank. When you do this, a blank Favourite will be created which is not clickable. To fix this, click on the star to remove the favourite.