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Dashboard items/widgets offer an effective way to engage users within your Kahootz workspaces.
The items you can add depends on the type of dashboard you're configuring.
Here's a full list of items/widgets you can add to each dashboard in Kahootz along with a brief explanation.
My Dashboard "Configure/Add item" Menu.
Workspace & Folder Dashboard "Configure/Add item" Menu
As shown above, it shows the different items/widgets that can be added to each type of dashboard.
See below all the widget/item types you can add with a link (click on the item/widget name) to read a more detailed description.
| Items / Widget Names | |
| > Text and Media | Explanation |
| Icon Button | A button that links to an item in a workspace or a specific web URL address. |
| Image Button | An image that you can also link to a workspace item. |
| Text and Images | Block of text/images inserted into the page using our online editor. |
| Accordion / Carousel | Formatted information in collapsible sections/Formatted information in a slide format. |
| Ticker | This allows you to enter "text" that will scroll across your dashboard so users can read. |
| Countdown Timer | A digital timer to countdown the remaining days, hours, minutes, and seconds to a specified date. |
| Video - Upload | This allows you to upload a video file showing a video player, with optional surrounding explanation text. |
| Video - YouTube | Embed videos already hosted on YouTube. |
| Video - Vimeo | Embed videos already hosted on Vimeo. |
| Horizontal Line | A horizontal line to split up the page. |
| > Workspace Content | Explanation |
| Recent Items | Shows a list of anything added or modified that you can define what item types are shown and select for all workspaces or just one. |
| Recent Activity | Shows a list of activities in your workspace which you can define what item types are shown and select for all workspaces or just one. |
| Tasks | Lists all tasks from the current workspace. |
| Upcoming Events | List of any events from the current workspace or lists all the upcoming events across all your workspaces. |
| Calendar | A grid showing the days of the month. If you have a calendar in a workspace, dates with events will be highlighted. |
| Workspace Photos | Shows a rotating carousel of images from a picture album in the workspace. |
| Tag Cloud | A tag cloud of all tags used in a workspace. |
| Workspace Information | Provides details about the workspace, who can see it, and how to contact the manager. |
| Workspace Members | Shows clickable thumbnails of the workspace members or managers. |
| Blog Articles | This allows you to show and link all or some of your blogs articles |
| Search Box | This allows you to search your workspace directly from this item/widget. |
| > My Content | Explanation |
| My Workspaces | Lists all the workspaces you're a member of. |
| My Recent Items | Shows an ordered list of items you have added or changed. |
| My Recent Activity | Shows an ordered list of your most recent activity. |
| My Private Messages | A list of all private messages you have received in any of your roles. |
| My Locked Documents | Lists the documents in your workspace that you have locked. See our 'document locking' article. |
| My Tasks | Lists all the tasks allocated to or created by you (this includes document reviews.) |
| My Document Reviews | Lists only the document review tasks allocated to or created by you. |
| Recommended Workspaces | Shows a list of recommending workspaces based upon "groups of interest" in your user profile. |
| Integration Items | Explanation |
| Applet | Integrate information from other sites and sources, ask support if you need assistance. |
| RSS Feed | Pull information from other sites using a common format - for example, BBC News. |
| Embed Twitter Feeds, Tweets & Hashtags onto your Dashboard. |
Kahootz Tip: If you wish to apply these items to your 'dashboards' please refer to this KB article.