After logging in, users are taken directly to their home screen:
(1) Universal tools
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Te Rito Harakeke (1)
Clicking the Harakeke (flax) takes users back to the home screen
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My Messages (2)
An instant message feature that allows teachers to easily have conversations with other teachers, students, parents, or anyone else they are connected to. Group messages can be sent to multiple people. Addresses sync from the school's Student Management System (SMS).
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My Calendar (3)
A summary of the user's class, group and school calendar events.
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My Launchpad (4)
Contains useful links and resources posted by schools and school clusters.
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My Notifications (5)
Notifications within the Te Rito platform. Users can also be notified by email and text message.
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Analytics Dashboard (6)
A visual interface that displays student demographic, achievement and assessment data in an organised and easy-to-understand format, which can be used by authorised users such as principals to monitor, analyse and report on trends in their school, and across clusters of schools in near-real time.
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My Personal folder (7)
A place where teachers can create and save lessons, quizzes, tests, and more for future use. Personal folder items can be copied and pasted to different locations (e.g., classes) when needed.
(2) Organisations
Displays all organisations the user belongs to as a member. In this example, Cara is a teacher at Somewhere College, the school is a part of the Integrated Schools' Community of Learning (COL). The school and COL are a member of Northern Bays, which is a Ministry-level membership.
(3) Classes
Displays all Classes that a teacher teaches. Classes are populated and setup by the student management system.
(4) Applications
Where unique applications that have been built for Te Rito users appear.
- Badges (Optional)
A Badge group awards and tracks certifications and badges for staff and students. As soon as someone has one badge, the badges panel appears. If they are removed from the only badge group they are part of, the badges panel is also removed from their home screen.
(5) Search Bar
Search for groups, people, posts, and documents.
(6) News River
Collates news from all news streams of the different organisations the user is a member of. Scroll to navigate through the News River. Click an article to view the full text. Attachments can be viewed or downloaded from either the desktop browser or a mobile device
Authorised users can post to the News River for the different communities. For example, teachers and students can post within their school's news stream. If the post is approved by the authorised moderator then the post becomes visible to all staff, students, and parents of the school.
(7) My Groups
Displays all groups the user belongs to.
(8) You Might Like…
Shows groups that you may be interested in joining based on the current groups you are a member of and your interests.
A list of groups that you are not already a member of can be found by clicking More Groups at the top right of the You might like… panel.
(9) Recent Activity
A summary of updates or recent activity within the Te Rito platform.
(10) Analytics Dashboard
Refer to Analytics Dashboard under (1) Universal tools above.
(11) User Info
Clicking the Home button takes users back to the home screen. The drop-down arrow beside the name and image of the account holder provides access to the user’s Profile, Settings, and Archives.
(12) Personal Calendar
A summary of all of the user's class, group and school calendar events.
(13) School Zoom
A summary of information about the school the teacher teaches at - showing the students, parents of students, and classes the teacher teaches.