have you tried creating a page with the admin link? That’s the only way I can think of that might work...never tried it...we use custom content boxes to go to specific admin menus instead, like Course Management, User Management and Reports across the top of the homepage 

I appreciate your thoughts here. Have considered creating your own superadmin landing page with your most heavily used links. In DU I created a group and a specialized menu so that I have my own landing page to admin from. You can even potentially iframe in other tools or dashboards.

Yes - I was trying to avoid creating a custom page.  I would have to add all 30 links on the admin page to a custom admin page. They really should just let us set the admin menu as a landing page.