This article gives an overview of the menus and tools available at the top of Kintone.

1) Quick access menu / Portal / Notifications / Bookmarks
2) School-cap icon
3) Settings icon
4) Help icon
5) People
6) Account settings / Logout
7) Search

• Quick access menu
  Opens the quick access menu for navigating to various Kintone features (spaces, apps, and People pages).
• Portal
  Takes you to your portal.
• Notifications
  Displays the notification list.
  For details, refer to the following page.
  Notification settings
• Bookmarks
  Lets you bookmark Kintone pages and view the bookmarks you have added.
  For details, refer to the following page.
  Adding bookmarks

When you click the school-cap icon, the beginner's guide appears.
The beginner's guide provides options that you can refer to when you are just getting started with Kintone or you need help using the service.
The school-cap icon is displayed when all of the following conditions are met.

• You are using Kintone during the 30-day free trial period.
• Your display language is set to English.
• You have been granted the "Create apps" permission in Kintone administration.
  For details on configuring the permission settings, refer to the following page.
  Setting system-wide permissions for Kintone
• The Allow users to create apps that do not belong to any space option is enabled in the Feature activation settings in Kintone administration.
  For details on configuring the permission settings, refer to the following page.
  Feature activation

From the Settings icon, you can access the Personal settings screen, as well as perform general operations and configure general administrative settings for Kintone.
Users with Kintone administrative permission can use the Settings icon to access the Kintone administration screen. On the Kintone administration screen, various settings related to the management and maintenance of Kintone can be configured (for example, permission settings for each feature and customization settings).
Kintone users & system administrators can use the Settings icon to access Users & system administration, where they can configure security settings and add users and departments.
For details, refer to the following pages.
Opening the "Kintone administration" screen
Configuring permissions in Users & system administration

From the Help icon, you can access various content that helps to understand and use Kintone.

Select this icon to display your own People page.
Note that if department access control is enabled, users can view only the People pages of other users who are in the same top-level department.
Limit access across departments

For more information on People pages, refer to the following page.
People

From this menu, you can configure your account settings or log out from Kintone.
For details, refer to the following pages.
Configuring accounts
Logging in/Logging out

You can use this area to search for data in Kintone.

• Searchable apps: Apps, records, and fields which the user performing the search can access
• Searchable spaces: Private spaces the user performing the search has joined and public spaces
• Searchable users: Users in the same top-level department as the user performing the search (if department access control is enabled)
  Limit access across departments

For information on searching, refer to the following page.
Searching for data