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  • Step 1: Add the Sidenav Menu section to your page
  • Step 2: Add the Cards section to the page
  • Step 3 (Optional): Add video and banner features

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  1. Getting Started

Quick Start Guide

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Sidenav is supported on the student dashboard and "all courses" page. Each page needs to be managed individually.

Step 1: Add the Sidenav Menu section to your page

The SideNav Menu is the main section that controls what links are contained in the Sidenav Menu. It also controls the color scheme that will be used by the other section.

Steps for setting up the Sidenav Menu

For a more in depth explanation of the Sidenav Menu click the link below, otherwise head to Step 2

Step 2: Add the Cards section to the page

The Cards section is the section that will display the course cards on the page.

When placing the Cards section on the "Student Dashboard" page, the course cards will show all of the courses that the student is enrolled in.

Steps for setting up the Course Cards section

For a more in depth explanation of the Sidenav Course Cards click the link below, otherwise head to Step 3

Step 3 (Optional): Add video and banner features

Sidenav comes with super powers that enable you to feature content or call special attention to something important. This is especially useful for memberships where you may be adding new content regularly or you may also want to provide a "video tour" of your member area to make sure your students don't get stuck.

There are a few ways you can do this:

Open up the Student Dashboard page from within Site Builder for your Thinkific site and add the section. This must go first on the page.

Open the Sidenav settings and

Optionally change the by choosing a preset color scheme or setting a custom one

depending on how you want the side menu to be structured. You can have a or (ex: "subcategories". This side navigation replaces the standard page header that appears on other Thinkific pages.

When placing this on the "All Courses" page, the course cards will show all courses that you have published and are not hidden. They will also always link to the course landing page (see the if you are using external sales pages for your courses)

Add the section to your student dashboard, make sure to place this after the section. There should also only be one Course Cards section on the page

Choose the that you wish to use

Optionally change the default text that is used for the and displayed in this section

In the there is a setting group. This is a special section on the Sidenav menu that can be used for a popup video, which would be a great spot to add that "video tour" of your member area

There is also another section called . When you add this to the page, you can create a sliding banner at the top of the page for announcements or featured content.

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Sidenav Menu
upload your logo
color scheme
Sidenav Menu
Sidenav Cards
Sidenav Menu
Cards
Sidenav Menu section
Sidebar Video
Banner (Slider)
Create your navigation links
flat structure
have groups of links
FAQ section for how to handle this
card style
headings
course status text