At St. Edward's, myHilltop is your one-stop shop for everything you need. myHilltop is where our students, faculty and staff get things done.
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myHilltop is a search-based platform with several ways to find what you need. For an optimal and tailored experience, we recommend you always sign in to myHilltop to get important updates via announcements and content tailored to your university role (student, staff, faculty, etc.).
In myHilltop, individual items are called "tasks," while groups of related tasks are organized into "task centers." The homepage is designed to highlight important or frequently used tasks through several sections.
The "Most Popular" section of the homepage shows the most in-demand tasks among the St. Edward's community — the task order changes based on trending popularity.
myHilltop features a section with timely, new or necessary tasks. The pinned tasks rotate throughout the year, depending on what's happening on campus.
When you log in to myHilltop, you'll see tasks and messages tailored to your role. For example, you will see the"My Recently Used" section displays the tasks you've used in your recent session(s).
Favorites, Bookmarks, Collections and Canvas Courses
Upon logging in, you'll also find other sections like Favorites, a section you can customize entirely. Just click the heart icon in the bottom right corner of the task or task center tile to add it to favorites, creating a section for your most-used or important tasks.
To customize your Favorites, click the gear icon next to the "My Favorites" section.
While customizing, you can reorder your favorites or group them into collections (e.g., "Classes," "Work Tools").
You can add bookmarks to sites not available via myHilltop. Create bookmarks for sites you use frequently, and they'll be accessible in your "My Favorites" section.
If you have assigned Canvas courses, "My Canvas Courses" will be displayed on the landing page, providing easy access to your courses.
Reorganize Your Landing Page
The myHilltop landing page focuses on the most-used features for easy access. You can customize it by clicking the list icon at the top right under the search bar.
In the window that pops up, click and drag the titles in the order you want. Click "Save" when you're done.
Filtering by Role or Category
You can find the tasks you need in myHilltop through various methods: Site search, homepage and browsing categories.
Categories are helpful if you know the type of task you're looking for, but you're unsure what it's called.
myHilltop offers hundreds of tasks for everyone at the university, but not all may apply to you. To filter tasks, select your role(s), and you'll see the tasks relevant to you.
Access Canvas, the university's learning management system, via myHilltop. You can create shortcuts to your individual Canvas classes using myHilltop's Canvas Connector.
myHilltop's Canvas Connector adds a section called "My Canvas Courses" to your homepage, showing your active Canvas courses. To see this section, you'll need to authorize the Connector, and you can de-authorize the Connector whenever.