Personal menu

Changes to KTH’s Personal Menu

Work is currently being done to update and modernize its technical foundation, which means that some functions will change or be removed. 

Here we explain why these changes are taking place and how you, as a user, can navigate them, Changes to KTH’s Personal Menu .

The change to the “Services” tab will be implemented on February 16th.

What does the Personal menu contain?

Below are presented the functions (link texts or icons) that you see in the Personal menu.

kth.se/Student web/Intranet

Under these three links you will find KTH's website, student web and intranet for various types of information.

Teaching

Links to the courses you teach are shown here (not for course assistants however).

Changes to the “Teaching” tab

Previously, it was possible to star-mark courses in the Personal Menu in order to collect them under Favourites. This functionality is no longer available. You can create a personal course overview directly in Canvas instead.

Programme

Links to all the programmes you subscribe to are shown here. If you want to stop subscribing to a programme, you can do so in the subscription settings or directly on the programme page. Here you can create your own groups and get links to groups you subscribe to. If you want to stop subscribing to a group, you can do so in the subscription settings or directly on the group page.

Groups

Here you can create your own groups and have links to groups you subscribe to. You are able to unsubscribe from a group in the subscription settings or directly on the group page.

Services

The Services tab contains links to various digital systems and tools at KTH. A number of selected services will be posted automatically for all employees. For the services where the authorization is set up via UG (KTH's database for managing users and privileges), those who have system authorization will automatically have them listed in their “Services” menu.

Changes to the “Services” tab

Previously, you could choose which services were displayed under "Other selected services".

This option will be removed on February 16. The services menu will look the same for all users with the same role going forward.

Schedule

Here you see schedule events created in one of the functions: Group webs, programme webs or course webs. You who study or teach will see a lot of events as they are retrieved from different systems and gathered in one place.

Icons

In the top right corner of the Personal menu, there are three clickable icons:

• Webmail
• News feed – collection of posts, events, recent edits made in programmes and groups you subscribe to
• Direct notifications – notifications from the course webs, programme webs and groups.

Your profile

Under your profile picture, you will find "My information" and "My settings". Here you can access settings for your personal profile page on KTH's website , subscriptions (My schedule), export My schedule (e.g. to mobile phone), wireless network and change password.

Does the Personal menu differ if you are a student or an employee?

There are slight differences between how the menu looks for employees and students. Employees can view and select several services in the service's menu. You who are a doctoral student can see the courses where you have the role “student”. If you also teach, you still have the student view. This is something that will change in ongoing development work of the Personal menu.

Information for students can be found on Student web's information about the Personal menu .