Configuring User's Home Page-3 - Enabling Ability to "Favorite" a Course

Video Transcription

Next thing you can enable as administrator is ability for user to favor their courses. After you enable favoring, I'm going to refresh the screen.  The little heart icon will show up and then they can click on enable to heart it. In addition, they can also, I'm going to use a different browser.  The user can also click on a course that they haven't taken and heart it. The idea is the user can heart a course whether they have taken the course or not.  After they have heart the course, if they go to my courses, there's going to be a heart icon that they can click on to go into the favorite courses that they have added as a favorite.  In addition, they can click on the favorite icon on the left hand side to see that view.  Lastly, the recommended tab has the underlying algorithm that is going to this particular user. There is no courses to recommend because he has taken all the courses.  But the more the user heart, the more data the algorithm will be able to use to generate most relevant recommendations for the user.  We recommend that you turn on ability for the user to toggle the favorite. Thank you.

Video Summary

In this video, the speaker explains how to enable the ability for users to favorite courses. Once enabled, a heart icon appears next to each course. Users can click on this icon to mark a course as a favorite, regardless of whether they have taken it or not. After favoriting a course, users can access their list of favorite courses by clicking on a heart icon in the "My Courses" section. Additionally, users can click on a favorite icon on the left side of the screen to see their favorite courses in a separate view. The video concludes by recommending the activation of the toggle favorite option to enhance the algorithm's ability to generate relevant recommendations for the user. No specific credits are mentioned.