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User profile fields

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In Moodle 1.8 onwards, administrators are able to create new user profile categories and fields. Profile fields may be a menu of choices or text input and may be required or not.

New profile fields will appear on each user’s profile page (and on the user sign-up page in Moodle 1.9 onwards).

For one thing, this means that U.S. users will finally be able to have valid addresses, including *states*, without which an address can be meaningless. (Which state is Springfield in? Oh, 15 of them!)

Important

Should the site administrator intend to bulk upload user data via .csv file, it is essential to use the correct convention to represent the new profile field. The convention is profile_field_shortname

Replace 'shortname' with the actual short name used for the new profile field eg. dob. So the field should read something like profile_field_dob

Examples of use

House System

Many schools have a 'House' system where students and staff are assigned to a given House. For example, a school has eight houses, named after its founders: Adderton, Coolock, Gorry, Loretto, McAuley, Mercedes, Tighe and Whitty. The site administrator can add a user profile field that offers a 'Menu of choices' to the user. A default value can also be selected. Should the administrator decide to bulk upload House data for users via a .csv file, it is important to represent the above array of values as 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 in the file. That is to state, if a user belongs to Adderton House, the value '1' should appear for the 'House' user profile field for the given record.

Birthday Block

Here's how to automatically display user birthdays via a Moodle block.

1. Site administrators must create a new user field for 'Date of Birth' as 'Text input' type. 2. Download the 'Birthday Block' plugin. 3. When configured, this block pulls data from the DOB user field and displays user birthdays. 4. Of course, user data must exist in correct format for this block to display birthdays.

See also

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