The stream is the first thing learners see when they log in.
What sits at the top usually gets done. What sits at the bottom often gets missed. This article covers the three choices that decide what learners see: the order of your widgets, the type you pick, and the way the tiles are laid out.
How the stream decides what learners see
Two things work together.
Widgets are the boxes. They hold your activities, journeys, and programmes, and they decide how that content looks on the page.
Automations are the switch. They decide which learners actually see a widget and the content inside it.
A widget with an enabled automation that unlocks it only shows for the learners that automation matches. A widget without one is shown to every learner.
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Activities and journeys need to sit inside a widget to show up in the stream. The automation is what limits a widget to an audience, so if you switch off the only automation that unlocks a widget, everyone sees it.
If you want a widget to be seen by nobody, keep an enabled automation on it that matches nobody, or remove the widget from the stream.
The same goes for an activity without an unlock automation. With the setting that hides content without an automation switched off, every user gets it in My progress.
The order matters most
The stream shows widgets in the order you set. The top of the page gets the most attention. For some learners it is the only part they look at.
Go to Behaviour > Stream
Drag and drop a widget to move it up or down
Put content that should be finished first at the top. Put optional content to browse below it
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Moving a widget takes seconds and changes what learners see straight away. Try that before you build anything new.
Pick the widget that fits your message
Every widget type gets a different amount of attention. Pick the one that matches how important the content is.
Spotlighted activity or journeys, or programme: one item, big and in the middle. Use it for the thing that matters most right now. Read more about spotlight widget types.
Activities, journeys, or programmes: a group of items in one box. Use it for content learners can go through in their own time.
Sessions: shows planned sessions. Read more about the sessions widget.
For the full list of widget types and what each one does, see the widget overview.
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Use different widget types on one page. If the stream looks the same every week, there is nothing new for learners to notice.
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A journey slider only shows a learner the journeys in it that they have access to, so adding a journey to a slider does not unlock it. A learner with none of those journeys sees an empty slider or no slider at all.
A spotlight journey tile is different. It is shown to everyone the widget is unlocked for, also when they have no access to that journey.
The stream loads 20 widgets at a time, so a widget further down appears when the learner scrolls.
Slide or grid: how the tiles are laid out
You choose the layout for each widget. The same content can look very different depending on what you pick.
Slide: learners swipe through the tiles sideways. Good for a long list you want to keep small on the page.
Grid: the tiles sit next to each other. Good when you want learners to see everything at once.
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Journeys have their own view setting too. See how to configure how learners see content for journeys.
Make a stream for one group
You can set up a widget for one group without changing what everyone else sees.
Use the dropdown at the top of the stream overview
Select a group
Set up a widget that only applies to learners in that group
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You cannot move widgets around while a filter is on. Turn the filter off first.