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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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-{{Course admin}}
+{{Accounts}}
-Students are usually asked to edit their profile in Moodle.  It is also possible for the administrator to edit users' profiles. These instructions reflect the 1.9 format of the user's page for the site administrator.  A student has a shorter list.
+==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).
-==Table of Contents==
-__TOC__
-==Standard settings==
+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.
-===General===
-====User name====
-This may be changed. Can only contain alphabetical letters or numbers (underscore character is not permitted; however, a period is permissible).
-====New Password====
+The fields are divided into 6 sections - General, Preferences, User picture, Additonal names and Optional which are all explained below.
-Has an unmask setting to reveal the actual password. Password is validated to ensure that password complexity requirements as enforced. See [[https://docs.moodle.org/en/admin/setting/sitepolicies#Password_policy|Password policy]] for more information.
-====Force password change====
+Remember to click 'Update profile' when you have finished.
-An initial password can be set by the administrator or bulk uploading, but this will force the user to create a new password.
-====First name, surname====
-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 course.
-====Email address====
+=== General ===
-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====
+*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 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.
+*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.
-====Email activated====
+=== User picture ===
-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.
-====City/town; country====
+This section is optional and allows you to choose your own profile picture.  Your current picture is shown, if you have already chosen one.
-These fields are used to further identify you by geographical location.
-====Timezone====
+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.
-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 ====
+'''New picture'''
-A Moodle site might have multiple languages installed from language packs. This sets the user's prefered language using a drop down menu.
-====Description====
+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).
-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.
-===Picture of===
+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.
-====Current picture====
-This shows the picture associated with a profile. Sometimes the refresh button on your browser will update the current image view.
-====New picture====
+NOTE: Make sure that the file is not larger than the maximum size listed, or it will not be uploaded.
-This has a Browse button and field to allow you to upload a new picture for the profile. Uploaded image types supported include gif, jpg, and png. The file upload size shown is determined by the maxbytes variable on the configuration page. User pictures (also known as Avatars) are 100px by 100px for the larger view and 35px by 35px for the smaller view. Both of these small images are created by Moodle in the upload process, which also reduces the file size to around 4K. Pictures are stored in the Users sub-folder of the Moodle data folder. The two images are called f1.jpg and f2.jpg.
-====Picture Description====
-NB All uploaded user pictures can be viewed via the URL <moodle url>/userpix/
+Then click "Update Profile" at the bottom - the image file will be cropped to a square and resized down to 100x100 pixels.
-===Interests===
+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.
-====List of interests====
-Use a comma between different interests.
-==Advanced==
+===Additional names===
-Clicking on the Show Advanced button will reveal additonal fields.
+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.
-===General===
-====Choose an authentication method====
-The administrator can select a particular [[Authentication]] method for the user.  This is also the place to turn on the "[[No login]]" setting.
-====Email format====
+==Interests==
-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).
+Use tags here to display your interests on your profile page.
-====Email digest type====
+=== Optional ===
-This setting determines how one receives any posts from forums to which one is subscribed. There are three possible choices:
-* No digest (one receives individual emails),
-* Complete (a single digest daily) or
-* Subjects (a single digest daily with only the post topics included).
-[[Image:Forum_subscription_options.gif|frame|right|users may choose how they receive email from forums]]
+There are several optional fields allowing you to add further details to your profile such as contact details and your website.
-<br>
-====Forum auto-subscribe====
+===Custom Profile Categories===
-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.
+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]]
-====Forum tracking====
+==Updating a user profile==
-Enabling forum tracking means highlighting the posts you have not read yet, which should improve your forum navigation.
-====When editing text====
+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]].
-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".
-====AJAX and Javascript  ====
+==Account disabling==
-No: use basic web features
-====Screen reader====
+An account may be disabled by setting the authentication method to "[[No login]]". The account email may not be used to create another account.
-===Options===
+==See also==
-The site administrator may have [[User profile|added more fields]] to the user profile. The following are standard with Moodle and are revealed by the "Show Advanced" button.
-====Web page  ====
-====ICQ number  ====
-====Skype ID====
-====AIM ID====
-====Yahoo ID====
-====MSN ID====
-====ID number====
-====Institution====
-====Department====
-====Phone====
-====Mobile Phone====
-====Address====
-==Older version notes==
+*[[User 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.
-[[Category:Student]]
+[[fr:Modifier le profil]]
-[[Category:Teacher]]
+[[de:Nutzerprofil aktualisieren]]
+[[es:Actualizar perfil]]
-[[es:Editar Información personal]]
-[[fr:Modifier mon profil]]
-[[ja:プロフィールの編集]]
-[[de:Nutzerprofil bearbeiten]]

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