Favorites
The favorites feature allows you to build personal collections of pages from SERC-hosted websites. It's an easy way to track pages you want to return to. It also allows you to request email notifications when pages in your collections get updated. You can include notes about specific pages, organize your favorites into collections, and even share your collections with others.
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You can get to your favorites list on any page across SERC from the Account/Favorites menu in the upper right-hand corner of every page. You'll need to be logged into a SERC account to access your favorites and save new pages to your collection.
The Add Current Page option in the favorites menu includes a checkbox where you can choose to receive email notifications about any updates to the page you've favorited. The notifications for any pages you choose to track in this way will be aggregated into a single weekly email that includes a summary of any updates. You can unsubscribe at any time through the management interface described below.
New pages you add will automatically be put into your 'Default' collection unless you specify otherwise. There is an option to create a new collection which may be helpful if you're pulling together a list of pages for a particular purpose, like a specific course.
From any page you can open your Favorites menu and jump directly to a saved page from any of your collections. You can also jump to the management page to edit and organize your collections.
Within the management page you can jump between your collections and create new collections using the menu on the left. Using the 'Edit Collection Details' button you can rename collections as well as add descriptions to help you (and others) understand each collection's purpose. All collections are private to you when they are first created. The collections details editing screen has the option to make a particular collection public. Public collections will be listed with a public url you can share with others. They'll be able to see the pages in the collections and any notes you may have made. They won't, however, have access to modify your collection.
You can also edit individual favorites from within the management interface. You can edit the title and description associated with any favorite, subscribe and unsubscribe to email notifications about updates to that page, and change which collection it belongs to. You can rearrange the order of pages within a collection just by dragging and dropping the entire entry. You can delete individual pages from a collection and when a collection is entirely empty there will be a delete button to remove the collection.
We hope you find the favorites feature is a handy way to get back to SERC pages you use frequently. Or use it as you're developing a new course to keep track of potential resources you've found that you want to look into in more depth later: make a collection for the course and add items as you explore the site. Or curate and annotate a collection and share it with others.
As folks in the community develop and share collections you may want to explore the full set of public collections.