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Finding your way around HowNow

Lost? Look no further and take a quick look and what's available on HowNow.

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Written by Aaron-Spencer
Updated over a week ago

If you're new to HowNow you'll see a bunch of icons, buttons, bells and whistles on the homepage - get a quick snapshot into what these all do, below!

Top Panel Buttons

At the top of the homepage, you'll see the following buttons, each with a distinct purpose:

  • Create - this is a quick way for Collaborators and higher, to start producing any of the standard content types, from within the HowNow Studio, with this handy shortcut.

  • Messages - start a new conversation, or continue an existing one, with all team members, you share the same Groups with (Admins can message any User regardless).

  • Notifications - see your most recent notifications, or View All to go to your full-page list.

  • Profile Pic - this opens your list of navigational options: visit your Profile page (and manage your Settings), head to the Dashboard (only for Contributors or higher), Request Learning, or logout to close your session for the day.

Homepage Content

The top portion of the homepage, includes three very important sections, when it comes to content consumption.

Top Picks - Useful content that's trending for you. This could be a podcast your Manager thinks will benefit your personal development.

Announcements: Important pieces of knowledge shared with you. Perhaps news on a recent big-win for the organisation.

Must Do: Mandatory, essential or compliance-related content.

Upcoming

See your upcoming Live Classes, Webinars and Events within this section. Click "Book" to be taken to the information page, where you can select time slots, and get further details.

Note ✨: If you've integrated with your Google Calendar, you can see your upcoming events here too! If not, you can click the ( + ) sign in the Upcoming box, and select your Google or Outlook calendar, as shown above.

Your sidebar

For You: The HowNow homepage!

My Library: From here you can access your Courses that are In Progress, Must Do content, Shared With Me, History and Bookings.

Announcements: While the Announcements section shows the latest additions, the Announcements page here, shows the full list of content.

Events: You'll be able to see the Live Classes, Webinars and Events you've booked, been assigned to and any upcoming. On the content cards, you'll be able to cancel your bookings, if need be.

Saved: Quickly see recent content you've bookmarked and return to it instantly, to continue learning. Here you'll also find anything you've highlighted and annotated too!

Dashboard: For Admins and Managers only - check out Insights, manage Users, attend to Learning Requests and more. Contributors also have a Dashboard with limited access, to create content, manage Bookings, and Rewards.

Studio: For Contributors, Managers and Admins only - access the Studio to start creating content to share with your teams.

Apps and Channels

Apps: These are the tools you work with to get the job done. Whether Slack, Udemy for Business, Coursera or any other content library, or cloud storage tool.

Channels: Topics of information. Follow a Channel by hovering over its name and selecting the (+) icon that will appear next to it.

Recommended: This is based on your interests, skills requirements and what's trending in your groups and sector!

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