Microsoft provides a useful tool for easily accessing mobile apps. It’s called “My Apps Portal.” You can find it at either of these URLs:

My Apps is a web application launcher. It lists web apps provided by the University of Arkansas which you can group in to “collections.” By default, it has a collection called “Frequently Used,” which puts the apps you use most at the top, and another called “Apps” which includes everything else. Here’s an example of a Frequently Used collection:

My Apps Portal showing twenty-one tiles in the Frequently Used collection, including Workday, OneDrive, TeamDynamix, Planner, and ChatGPT EDU.

Apps are arranged as tiles. You can change the order by drag-n-drop. Clicking on any tile will launch its associated web app.

Adding Apps

The easiest way to add an app is to search for it using the search box at the top of My Apps. For example, typing “power b” will match “Power BI”:

Search result in My Apps for "power b," which matches Power BI.

Clicking the search result will launch the app. But, if you’d like to add a tile for the app to your Frequently Used apps collection (or any other collection), click the three dots to the right of the search result and choose Add apps –> Frequently Used:

The "Add apps" context menu which appears when pressing the three dots to the right of a search result. Selecting "Add Apps" presents an additional menu which allows you to select the collection to which the tile should be added or create a new one.

Adding a Site

You can also add links to sites. For example, if you use the OneSearch feature of the University of Arkansas Libraries site, you can add a tile for its URL, which is libraries.uark.edu. First, the URL of the site, then click the “Add apps” link in My Apps and choose “Add a site”:

The "Add Apps" button in My Apps showing its two items: "Add a site" and "Request new apps."

The “Add a site” dialog will appear, use it to give your app/tile a name, paste in the URL, and add it to a collection. In this example, we’ve named the app “OneSearch,” pasted in the URL, and assigned it to our “Frequently Used” collection:

The My Apps "Add a site" dialog, showing the Name, URL, and collection of a new tile for OneSearch. The Save and Cancel buttons are shown at the bottom of the dialog.

Clicking the Save button completes the process and adds the tile to the collection. Here’s My Apps again, showing the new Power BI and OneSearch tiles we added:

My Apps showing two newly added tiles: Power BI and OneSearch

Deleting an App or Site

You can remove tiles you no longer use by clicking the three dots at the top right corner of any tile and choosing the Remove option.

Final Thoughts

If you spend a little time adding links to the apps and sites you use most often for your work, My Apps can be a handy too for quickly launching them.