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Editing Your Profile

Individual users can edit their profiles by clicking the Edit profile link accessed from the Profile page in the user menu (top right).

Administrators can update user profiles via Administration > Users > Accounts > Add a new user or Browse list of users or by clicking the profile of a user and clicking the Edit profile link in the User details section.

The fields are divided into 6 sections - General, Preferences, User picture, Additional names and Optional which are all explained below.

Remember to click 'Update profile' when you have finished.

General

This section is expanded by default. First name, Surname and Email address are compulsory fields. Depending on your administrator's settings (in the relevant authentication plugin settings) you may or may not be able to edit these.
The other settings - City/Town, Country, Timezone and Description are optional. The administrator might already have entered your city and country when your account was created.
The Timezone field is used to convert time-related messages on the system (such as assignment deadlines) from the local timezone (the time in London) to the correct time in whichever zone you have selected.

User picture

This section is optional and allows you to choose your own profile picture. Your current picture is shown, if you have already chosen one.

Note: If the admin has enabled it in Administration > Site Administration > Users > Permissions > User policies, a gravatar you might have attached to your email account will appear as your profile image if you don't upload a different one.

New picture

The "Choose a file" button allows you to choose a new picture for your profile. The picture must be in JPG or PNG format (ie the names will usually end in .jpg or .png).

To upload an image, click the "Upload a file" button from the list in the File picker, and select the image from your hard disk.

NOTE: Make sure that the file is not larger than the maximum size listed, or it will not be uploaded.

Then click "Update Profile" at the bottom - the image file will be cropped to a square and resized down to 100x100 pixels.

When you are taken back to your profile page, the image might not appear to have changed. If this is so, just use the "Reload" button in your browser.

Additional names

If the administrator has activated this feature then you will be able to set your alternative or additional names here. See Additional name fields for more information.

Interests

Use tags here to display your interests on your profile page.

Optional

There are several optional fields allowing you to add further details to your profile such as contact details and your website.

Custom Profile Categories

If any custom user profile categories and fields have been created on your Moodle site, they will be listed at the bottom of the Admin >Accounts>User profile fields

Updating a user profile

Users with the capability moodle/user:update are able to update another user's profile i.e. in addition to being able to edit the profile, other settings such as password, authentication method and force new password may be changed. The username cannot be changed if it has been set by an authentication plugin, such as LDAP.

Account disabling

An account may be disabled by setting the authentication method to "No login". The account email may not be used to create another account.

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-{{Course admin}}
+{{Accounts}}
-Students are usually asked to edit their profile in Moodle.  It is also possible for the administrator to edit users' profiles. In 1.6, on the home page in the administration block select '''users''', and then '''edit user accounts'''.  Find the student and click on the edit link. This brings you to their profile page, which has tabs for Edit Profile, Forum Posts, Blogs, and activity reports.
+==Editing Your Profile ==
-;First name, surname
+Individual users can edit their profiles by clicking the Edit profile link accessed from the Profile page in the  user menu (top right).
-:The first two fields are quite self-explanatory. The first and last names should be those that the student is to be known by in the course. They will identify the student everywhere in the cousre.
-;Email address
+Administrators can update user profiles via  ''Administration > Users > Accounts > Add a new user'' or ''Browse list of users'' or by clicking the profile of a user and clicking the Edit profile link in the User details section.
-:The email address should be the address at which the student receives acknowledgements and messages from the system, and is also the address that is displayed to the instructor and other users of the Moodle site, assuming that they have set the "Email display" option to allow other participants in the course to see their address, so it should be a mail address that they check regularly.  Other email display options are to hide your mail address from all users (it will still be visible to admins and instructors), or to make it available to everyone who visits the course, not just those that are enrolled.
-;Email display
+The fields are divided into 6 sections - General, Preferences, User picture, Additional names and Optional which are all explained below.
-:This controls the visibility of the address to others, allowing you to show or hide your email in the class. There are three options: you can set it so that all users (including guests) could see your email, or so that only other enrollees in the course can see the email address, or so that no one could see your email address at all.
-;Email activated
+Remember to click 'Update profile' when you have finished.
-:One can either enable or disable emails being sent to an address. Note that if this is disabled, students will not receive any mail whatsoever from the site.
-;Email format
+=== General ===
-:There are two  "Pretty HTML format" (which means that the messages will be formatted with different fonts and colours to make them easier to read) and "Plain text format" (plain text with no fancy formatting or colours).
-;Email digest type
+*This section is expanded by default. First name, Surname and Email address are compulsory fields. Depending on your administrator's settings (in the relevant authentication plugin settings) you may or may not be able to edit these.
-:This setting determines how one receives any posts from forums to which one is subscribed. There are three possible choices: No digest (one recieves individual emails), complete (a single digest daily) or subjects (a single digest daily with only the post topics included).
+*The other settings - City/Town, Country, Timezone and Description are optional. The administrator might already have entered your city and country when your account was created.
+*The Timezone  field is used to convert time-related messages on the system (such as assignment deadlines) from the local timezone (the time in London) to the correct time in whichever zone you have selected.
-[[Image:Forum_subscription_options.gif|frame|right|users may choose how they receive email from forums]]
+=== User picture ===
-<br>
-;Forum auto-subscribe
+This section is optional and allows you to choose your own profile picture.  Your current picture is shown, if you have already chosen one.
-:This setting lets one decide if one wants email copies of posts that are added to forums. If you set this to subscribe, the system will automatically email one copies of new posts in forums that one posts in, unless they manually override it when posting.
-;Forum tracking
+Note: If the admin has enabled it in ''Administration > Site Administration > Users > Permissions > User policies'', a gravatar you might have attached to your email account will appear as your profile image if you don't upload a different one.
-:Enabling forum tracking means highlighting the posts you have not read yet, which should improve your forum navigation.
-;When editing text
+'''New picture'''
-:This can usually be left on "Use HTML editor (some browsers only)". This allows for text formatting options, but requires newer browsers. If you find your browser is not letting you edit text, change this setting to "Use standard web forms".
-;City/town; country
+The "Choose a file" button allows you to choose a new picture for your profile. The picture must be in JPG or PNG format (ie the names will usually end in .jpg or .png).
-:These fields are used to further identify you by geographical location.
-;Timezone
+To upload an image, click the "Upload a file" button from the list in the [[File picker]], and select the image from your hard disk.
-:This field is used to convert time-related messages on the system (such as assignment deadlines) from the default Moodle timezone to the correct time in whichever zone you have selected.
-;Preferred language and theme
+NOTE: Make sure that the file is not larger than the maximum size listed, or it will not be uploaded.
-:The E-learning server can display in several different languages and colour themes, which you can choose from in these two options.
-;Description
+Then click "Update Profile" at the bottom - the image file will be cropped to a square and resized down to 100x100 pixels.
-:In this field you can enter some text about yourself, be it information about your studies, hobbies, qualifications or anything else that does not break the acceptable use policy of this site. This text will be visible to anyone that views your profile.
-===Locking Profile fields===
+When you are taken back to your profile page, the image might not appear to have changed. If this is so, just use the "Reload" button in your browser.
-To prevent users from altering some fields (e.g. students changing profile information to innappropriate or misleading information, the site administrator can lock profile fields.
-'''Administration''' - '''Authentication''' - '''User''' - '''Authentication''' - '''Data Mapping'''<br>
-[[Image:Authent-data-map-fname.jpg|Data Mapping Options]]
-*These fields are optional. You can choose to pre-fill some Moodle user fields with information from the LDAP fields that you specify here.  If you leave these fields blank, then nothing will be transferred from LDAP and Moodle defaults will be used instead.  In either case, the user will be able to edit all of these fields after they log in.
-*'''Update local''': If enabled, the field will be updated (from external auth) every time the user logs in or there is a user synchronization. Fields set to update locally should be locked.
-*'''Lock value''': If enabled, will prevent Moodle users and admins from editing the field directly. Use this option if you are maintaining this data in the external auth system.
-*'''Update external''': If enabled, the external auth will be updated when the user record is updated. Fields should be unlocked to allow edits.   Note: Updating external LDAP data requires that you set '''binddn''' and '''bindpw''' to a bind-user with editing privileges to all the user records. It currently does not preserve multi-valued attributes, and will remove extra values on update.
+===Additional names===
+If the administrator has activated this feature then you will be able to set your alternative or additional names here. See [[Additional name fields]] for more information.
-If you are using a mixture of authentication types (such as IMAP and manual), then the fields you lock in the administrator > users > authentication options will only apply to the type of authentication indicated by the dropdown box at the top of the screen.  Remember to test the field locking by logging in with the proper type of account!  If you test with a manual account but have set the field locking to apply to IMAP accounts, you will not be able to tell if it worked!
+==Interests==
+Use tags here to display your interests on your profile page.
-[[Category:Teacher]]
+=== Optional ===
-[[fr:Modifier mon profil]]
+There are several optional fields allowing you to add further details to your profile such as contact details and your website.
+===Custom Profile Categories===
+If any custom user profile categories and fields have been created on your Moodle site, they will be listed at the bottom of the [[User profile fields|Admin >Accounts>User profile fields]]
+==Updating a user profile==
+Users with the capability [[Capabilities/moodle/user:update|moodle/user:update]] are able to update another user's profile i.e. in addition to being able to edit the profile, other settings such as password, authentication method and force new password may be changed. The username cannot be changed if it has been set by an authentication plugin, such as [[LDAP authentication|LDAP]].
+==Account disabling==
+An account may be disabled by setting the authentication method to "[[No login]]". The account email may not be used to create another account.
+==See also==
+*[[User profiles]]
+[[fr:Modifier le profil]]
+[[de:Nutzerprofil aktualisieren]]
+[[es:Actualizar perfil]]

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