Edit profile

Note for Contributors
This page should explain what can be seen on the moodlesite.com/user/edit.php page
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.

“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.

Mandatory fields

First name, Surname

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.

Email address

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.

Email display

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.

Email activated

You can either enable or disable emails being sent to that address.

Email format

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).

Email digest type

This setting allows you to choose how you want to receive any emails you get from forums. There are three possible choices:

“No digest”

There is no email digest created – you will get every post, in full, that is made to a forum that you are subscribed to.

“Complete”

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.

“Subjects”

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.

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.

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.”

Address

The last four are reserved for teachers only.

To save the information you , click on “Update profile.” You will now see your updated profile.