Your account

/account, reached from Account in the top bar. Every signed-in user manages their own.

Choose Modern or Classic, then Top, Left or Right navigation. These choices follow your account across devices. Follow the school’s setting instead removes the relevant personal choice; another browser adopts the school default when it next loads your account. The selected button shows Your school’s choice when you are following that default.

Under Your workspace navigation, show or hide pages individually or by group. Use a custom order lets you arrange destinations yourself. Returning to Use workspace groups preserves hidden pages. These controls only tidy your menu; they do not grant access to additional pages.

Two-factor authentication

The one worth doing first.

Click Set up authenticator app.
Confirm it is you, if you are asked to. Setting up an authenticator replaces whatever second factor the account has, so Plugboard asks for a proof first wherever you have one to give — a code from your current authenticator, a passkey, or your password. An account with none of those, which is a single-sign-on account with no fallback password set, is not asked: there is nothing to confirm with and nothing yet to protect.
Scan the QR code, or type the secret, into an authenticator (Google Authenticator, 1Password, Authy, whatever your school uses).
Enter a six-digit code to confirm and enable it.

From then on, signing in asks for a code.

Turning it off asks for a current code first, and so does setting a new one up, so somebody at your unlocked machine can neither switch it off nor swap it for an authenticator of their own.

Turn this on before you invite anyone else. The account with every permission should be the best-protected one.

Change your password

You give the current password and the new one, and confirm it is you — the current password is often already saved in the browser, so Plugboard asks for the factor that is not, where you have one.

Changing it signs you out of your other sessions, keeping the browser you are typing in. If the reason you are changing it is that somebody else knows it, that is the point: the sessions opened with the old password go with it.

SSO fallback password

If your school uses single sign-on, you can set a local password as a backup.

Setting the first one needs nothing but being signed in — that is the point of it, and it is what an account with no other factor can still do. Replacing one asks for the current fallback password, because a fallback password signs in without your identity provider being asked, and somebody at your unlocked machine should not be able to quietly give themselves one. Either way, setting it signs your other sessions out.

At least one administrator should have one. An identity provider outage should not be an outage of your service desk, and setting this up afterwards is not possible by definition.

Daily status email

Opt in or out of a daily summary. It arrives each morning to staff who have it turned on, and it is a reasonable substitute for opening the dashboard first thing.

Interface style and theme

The sun and moon toggle in the top bar switches light and dark. Your choice is remembered on the device, and your interface style preference follows you across machines, so a laptop you have not signed into before picks up what you already chose.

Your school sets this under branding, and you can override it here: top, left or right.

A rail down one side suits a wide screen, since every module reads as one column rather than wrapping onto two lines. A laptop is usually better off keeping the width.

Once you have chosen, you keep your choice even if your school later moves everyone else. Below laptop width the rail returns to the top regardless.

Choose which pages appear in each workspace group. Use the eye beside a page to hide or show it, or Hide all / Show all for a whole group. Groups with no visible pages disappear from the navigation.

Choose Use a custom order to arrange pages with the earlier/later arrows. They appear together under Your navigation. Existing saved orders keep this behavior. Use workspace groups restores grouping while preserving hidden pages; Reset restores both default grouping and visibility.

This is yours alone. It changes nothing for anybody else at your school, and it is not the same as switching a module off — that is a school-wide decision made under modules by somebody with feature.manage.

A tab added by a later release appears in the place it was designed to sit, even if you rearranged everything last term. You will not lose a new module by having tidied up once.

Your recent activity

A log of your own recent actions.

Worth glancing at occasionally. It is also the fastest way to answer “what did I change yesterday” when something you did turns out to be the reason for something else.

The full audit log covers everybody and needs the audit.view permission. This is just yours.

What you cannot do here

Change your own roles. Permissions are assigned by somebody with role.manage, under users. Self-service permission escalation would defeat the point.

Change your email. That is the sign-in identifier and it is managed by an administrator, or by SCIM if your identity provider provisions accounts.

Delete your account. Deactivation is an administrator action, so history keeps its attribution.