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Latest revision as of 13:34, 5 November 2014

A user may view their own full profile by clicking My profile>View profile in the Navigation block. They may then personalise the display by clicking the "customise this page" link at the top right of the screen.
A student or course teacher may see the course profiles of users by clicking their names in Navigation>My courses (name of course)>Participants Teachers can then access the full profile by clicking the link "full profile" at the bottom of the course profile (if allowed. See 'Viewing full profiles' below).
An administrator may additionally access and view full profiles via Administration>Site administration>Users>Accounts>Browse list of users.

Full (site) profile

Depending on what the user has added to their profile, this gives information such as first and last access, general interests and links to individual course profiles. Users may be messaged from the link at the bottom of their full profile.

A manager or anyone with the capability Capabilities/moodle/user:viewlastip will also see a link to the IP address from which the user last accessed Moodle.

Course profile

A shorter version of users' profiles is available in the course and includes their role(s) and groups in the course and a link to message them. Those the relevant permissions are also able to access the full profile from here:

Viewing full profiles

By default, only admins and managers can view full profiles.

To allow everyone i.e. all authenticated users to view full profiles:

Go to Administration > Site administration > Users > Permissions > Define roles
Click the edit icon for authenticated user
Enter moodle/user:viewdetails in the filter box, then tick the checkbox to allow this capability
Click the 'Save changes' button

To allow teachers to view full profiles:

Go to Administration > Site administration > Users > Permissions > Define roles and click the 'Add a new role' button
Give the role a name, such as 'Full profile viewer' and tick System as the context type where the role may be assigned
Copy and paste moodle/user:viewdetails into the filter box then tick the box to allow the capability
Click the 'Create this role' button
Go to Administration > Site administration > Users > Permissions > Assign system roles and click 'Full profile viewer'
Assign teachers the role of 'Full profile viewer' by selecting them in the list of potential users on the right and then adding them to the list on the left

Site administration settings

New feature
in Moodle 2.8!

An administrator can set the defaults for certain user profile fields from Site administration>Users>Accounts>User default preferences

These are:

Email display

Email format

Email digest type

Forum auto-subscribe

Forum tracking

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-The user profile page gathers together all the known information about a particular user.
+{{Accounts}}
+*A user may view their own full profile by clicking ''[[My profile]]>View profile'' in the [[Navigation block]]. They may then personalise the display by clicking the "customise this page" link at the top right of the screen.
+*A  student or course teacher may see the course profiles of users by clicking their names in ''Navigation>My courses (name of course)>Participants'' Teachers can then access the full profile  by clicking the link "full profile" at the bottom of the course profile (if allowed. See 'Viewing full profiles' below).
+*An administrator may additionally access and view full profiles via ''Administration>Site administration>Users>Accounts>Browse list of users''.
-If you are a teacher, or looking at your own profile, then you will see some extra tabs allowing you to edit the profile settings, or providing detailed report and logs about the activity of that user.
+==Full (site) profile==
-You may also see a link for each course you or the user belongs to. This depends on your privileges. If you are viewing your profile or are an administrator clicking on these links keeps you on the user's profile but alters the breadcrumb menu so you can quickly jump to that course.
+Depending on what the user has added to their profile, this  gives information such as first and last access, general interests and links to individual course profiles. Users may be messaged from the link at the bottom of their full profile.
-There may be buttons at the bottom of the view profile page depending on whose profile you are viewing and what permissions have been set.
+A manager or anyone with the capability [[Capabilities/moodle/user:viewlastip]] will also see a link to the IP address from which the user last accessed Moodle.
-;Change password
+[[File:fullprofile.png]]
-:This takes you to a form for changing your password.
-;Messages
+==Course profile==
-:This opens the Messaging pop-up. It only shows when viewing your profile.
+A shorter version of users' profiles is available in the course and includes their role(s) and groups in the course and a link to message them. Those  the relevant permissions are also able to access the full profile from here:
-;Send message
+[[File:courseprofile.png]]
-:This takes you to the Messaging pop-up and opens a messaging session with the user whose profile you were using. It only shows when viewing someone else's profile and if messaging is switched on by the administrator.
-[[Category:Teacher]]
+==Viewing full profiles==
+By default, only admins and managers can view full profiles.
+To allow everyone i.e. all authenticated users to view full profiles:
+# Go to ''Administration > Site administration > Users > Permissions > Define roles''
+# Click the edit icon for authenticated user
+# Enter moodle/user:viewdetails in the filter box, then tick the checkbox to allow this capability
+# Click the 'Save changes' button
+To allow teachers to view full profiles:
+# Go to ''Administration > Site administration > Users > Permissions > Define roles'' and click the 'Add a new role' button
+# Give the role a name, such as 'Full profile viewer' and tick System as the context type where the role may be assigned
+# Copy and paste ''moodle/user:viewdetails'' into the filter box then tick the box to allow the capability
+# Click the 'Create this role' button
+# Go to ''Administration > Site administration > Users > Permissions > Assign system roles'' and click 'Full profile viewer'
+# Assign teachers the role of 'Full profile viewer' by selecting them in the list of potential users on the right and then adding them to the list on the left
+==Site administration settings==
+{{New features}}
+An administrator can set the defaults for certain user profile fields from ''Site administration>Users>Accounts>User default preferences''
+These are:
+:Email display
+:Email format
+:Email digest type
+:Forum auto-subscribe
+:Forum tracking
+==See also==
+*[[My profile]]
+* [[Update profile]]
+*The capability [[Capabilities/moodle/user:viewdetails|moodle/user:viewdetails]]
 [[cs:Profil uživatele]]
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 [[eu:Informazio_pertsonala]]
 [[fr:Voir le profil]]
+[[es:Ver perfil]]

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