Moodle provides you with a personal profile that applies to all the SUNLearn courses you are enrolled in. You can edit your profile information at any time.
- You can choose to hide or display your email address, include a photo or an avatar.
- Your profile can be accessed by clicking the user menu, which can be located at the far right top corner where your name appears.
- Click to display a drop-down menu.
- Click on ‘Profile’ from the drop-down menu.
Profile settings are divided into 3 main sections.
About me – Displays users’ info and role
Courses – Links to courses the user is enrolled in
Edit Profile – Allows the user to edit basic profile settings
- The user’s basic profile information is displayed by clicking Edit Profile.
- The First Name, Last Name and Email MUST be completed.
Clicking the configuration icon on the far right will display advanced profile options.
- Links to access enrolled courses, any forum and blog entries and a link to edit your profile will be shown.
- Clicking the Edit profile link will allow you to change certain information such as your correct time-zone, add an avatar, change password, optionally, add extra contact details.
General
The first section contains fields that must be completed
- Username: Should not be changed, it is a unique profile identifier (US/student number).
- New password: A user can change their password at any time.
- First name & Surname: These are self-explanatory. These names will identify you everywhere in your Moodle courses.
- Email address: The email address should be an address that you check regularly. It is used for acknowledgements and announcements from Moodle, including messages from Forums that you are subscribed to. It is also the address that is displayed to other users of Moodle, depending on your 'Email display' setting (below).
- Email display: This controls the visibility of your email address to others. The three settings are self-explanatory but please note 'Hide my email address from everyone' only hides it from students. Teaching staff and other staff with editing access will always be able to see your email address.
- City/town & Country: Add your location.
- Time-zone: This field is used to convert time-related messages on the system (such as assignment deadlines) from the local time-zone (Server time-zone) to the 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.
User picture
- Current 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.
- New picture: The "Choose a file" button allows you to choose a new picture for your profile. The accepted file formats are gif .jpe .jpeg .jpg .png .svg .svgz.
- 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.
- There is an option to give the uploaded picture a description.
(NOTE: Make sure that the file is not larger than the maximum size listed, or it will not be uploaded.)
Additional names
Optional names a user can add to their profile.
Interests
Use tags here to display your interests on your profile page.
Optional
There are several optional fields (all advanced) allowing you to add further details to your profile such as contact details and your website.
When the user has entered all relevant settings, click "Update Profile" at the bottom to confirm changes.