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**Settings**: This link gives you access to your :ref:`account settings and notifications <settings>`.

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**Inbox**: Go to your Mahara inbox to check for new messages. When you have unread messages, the counter displays the number of unread messages.

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**Logout**: Link to log out of your current session.

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**Search**: :index:`Search <single: Fulltext search>` for users who have an account to view their profile page and check which pages they have made accessible to you. If your site has fulltext search available, you can search for anything on the site using this search box.

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In the *User search* box you can most often search for users' :ref:`display name <about_me>`. Depending on the settings that the site administrator made, you may also be able to search for users' :ref:`real name and username <user_settings>`. If the site administrator allowed users to hide their real name, you can do so in your :ref:`general account options <general_account_options>`.

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To provide you with the most relevant search results, you automatically search only for users within your own institution, but can choose to search for everyone on your Mahara installation on the :ref:`"Find friends" search page <find_friends>` you are taken to.

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If the site administrator turned on :ref:`exact user search <plugin_search>`, you need to provide the correct display name or real name in order to find another user.

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**Quick links**: These :ref:`quick links <dashboard_quick_links>` take you directly to certain areas of Mahara.

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**User-specific information**: You can customise :ref:`this area <user_specific_information>` on your dashboard to put blocks there that you want to see every time you log in.

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**Edit dashboard**: The *Edit dashboard* button allows you to jump directly into the edit screen for your dashboard without having to go to *Portfolio → Pages* first.