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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 secton.

The fields are divided into 6 sections - General, Preferences, User picture, Additonal 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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- '''Note for Contributors'''
+{{Accounts}}
- This page should explain what can be seen on the <u>moodlesite.com/user/edit.php</u> page
+==Editing Your Profile ==
- when a user is editing their profile
-To edit your personal information, click on "Edit profile", which you will find on the class page, under the “People” section.
+Individual users can edit their profiles by clicking the Edit profile link accessed from the Profile page in the  user menu (top right).
-“Edit Profile” allows you to change information about yourself. If you click on this you will see a list of fields to fill in. Some of the fields are quite straightforward, which is why they are explained altogether.
+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 secton.
-While editing your profile, click on “Update profile” in order to save the information.
+The fields are divided into 6 sections - General, Preferences, User picture, Additonal names and Optional which are all explained below.
+Remember to click 'Update profile' when you have finished.
-==MANDATORY FIELDS==
+=== General ===
-===First name, Surname===
+*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.
-The first two fields are quite self-explanatory. The first and last names that you supply should be those that you wish to be known by on the course. They will be used by the tutors to identify you when grading work and responding in forums and other activities.
+=== 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.
-===Email address===
+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.
-The email address should be the address you wish to use to receive acknowledgements and messages from the system, and is also the address that is displayed to your tutors and other users of the moodle site, assuming that you have set the "Email display" option to allow other participants in your course to see your address, so it should be a mail address that you check regularly.  Other email display options are to hide your mail address from all users, or to make it available to all users on the moodle system, not just members of the courses you are enrolled in.
+'''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).
-===Email display===
+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 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 students in the class could see your email address, or so that no one could see your email address at all.
+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.
-===Email activated===
+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.
-You can either enable or disable emails being sent to your address.
+===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.
-===Email format===
+=== Optional ===
-For the messages to come into your mailbox, you can choose between "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).
+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]]
-===Email digest type===
+==Updating a user profile==
-This setting allows you to choose how you want to receive any emails you get from forums.
+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]].
-There are three possible choices:
+==Account disabling==
-* '''No digest'''
+An account may be disabled by setting the authentication method to "[[No login]]". The account email may not be used to create another account.
-There is no email digest created – you will get every post, in full, that is made to a forum that you are subscribed to.
+==See also==
-* '''Complete'''
+*[[User profiles]]
-This creates a single email digest of all the posts made to a forum you are subscribed to. You will get one email per day containing all of the posts made to the forum.
+[[fr:Modifier le profil]]
+[[de:Nutzerprofil aktualisieren]]
-* '''Subjects'''
+[[es:Actualizar perfil]]
-This creates a single email digest that contains just the subject lines from the posts to any forums you are subscribed to. You can go to any topic that you are interested in.
-===Forum auto-subscribe===
-This setting lets you decide if you want email copies of posts that are added to forums (bulletin boards). If you set this to subscribe, the system will email you copies of new posts in forums that you join.
-===Forum tracking===
-Enabling forum tracking means highlighting the posts you have not read yet, which should improve your forum navigation.
-===When editing text===
-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===
-These fields are used to further identify you by geographical location. The default for country on this server is
-===Timezone===
-This field is used to convert time-related messages on the system (such as assignment deadlines) from the server local time to the correct time in whichever zone you have selected.
-===Preferred language, Preferred theme===
-E-Learning server can display in several different languages and colour themes, which you can choose from in these two options.
-===Description===
-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
-==OPTIONAL FIELDS==
-There is a number of optional fields that can be filled in.
-===Current picture===
-If you have already uploaded a picture, you can delete it ticking the field 'Delete' near your current picture.
-===New picture===
-If you wish, you may upload a picture to represent you. To do this, click on the “Browse” button and find the picture you would like to upload, and click on “Open.”
-===Web page, ICQ number, Skype ID, AIM ID, Yahoo ID, MSN ID===
-You can also put some more personal information about you such as your identification number on any of the above Internet services.
-===ID number, Phone 1, Phone 2, Address===
-These options are reserved for teachers only. The field "ID number" is used to create a number that can be used to interface with other programs. Moodle itself does not use this number internally, so in many cases, this field can be left blank.

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