How to edit your user profile Your Moodle profile includes information about you such as your name, email address, location, courses you are enrolled in, and a description of yourself that you can share with others. After logging in to Moodle, you will see a link to ‘Edit Profile’ below Settings > My profile settings. To edit your profile Click the Edit profile link in the Settings block. Required profile settings are in red and marked with an asterisk ( ). Unless specified otherwise, it’s best to leave the default settings. Here’s an explanation of the profile settings in the “General” options: Email address: Moodle has a lot of important email features, so it’s essential that you set this to a valid email address that you check frequently. If you decide to change your email address, Moodle will send an email to the new address with a link to confirm it. You must click on this confirmation link. Email display: Specifies who can see your email address. Because you’ll likely want to be able to receive email from other Moodle users, you should leave this set to the default: “Allow only other course members to see my email address”. Email format: Specifies whether you'd like to receive HTML formatted email (that can include images and colour), or only plain text. Modern email clients display HTML formatted messages, so leave the default “Pretty HTML format”. Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services Page 1 of 4 Email digest type: When you are subscribed to a discussion forum, Moodle will send you email copies of all posts to that forum each day. If you select “No digest (single email per forum post)” you could receive dozens or even hundreds of emails per day ‐ depending on how many forums you are subscribed to and how active they are! Alternatively, you can select “Complete (daily email with full posts)” which will combine all forum posts into one email message to you. Again, depending on how active a forum is, this message could be very long. The recommended setting is “Subjects (daily email with subjects only)” which will send you an email that includes only a list of links to new forum post subjects for the day, including authors. You can click on a subject link in the digest to view the complete forum post on Moodle. Forum auto‐subscribe: Leave the default setting: “Yes: when I post, subscribe me to that forum” so that you will receive an email digest of all new messages in forums you participate in. You can unsubscribe from a forum at any time. Forum tracking: Selecting “Yes: highlight new posts for me” will highlight forum messages that you have not read yet so that you can quickly see what’s new. Screen reader: Selecting “Yes” will enable a more accessible interface in various places such as chat. City/town: This field is used to further identify you by geographical location. Select a country: This field is used to further identify you by geographical location. Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services Page 2 of 4 Timezone: This 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. Preferred language: You can view Moodle in three different languages, English, Spanish and French, which you can select from the drop‐down field. Note: changing the preferred language only affects the Moodle interface, not the course content! Description: Here you can write a little about yourself for other students or faculty to read if they click on your name when viewing your contributions in Moodle. How to add a picture to your profile You can add a photo or representative image of yourself that will appear with your profile and any forum postings that you make. To do this: 1. Prepare a 100 by 100 pixel .gif, .jpg, or .png image file. If you upload an image with different dimensions, Moodle will automatically crop and resize the image in ways that you may not want. 2. Once you have logged in to Moodle, click your name at the top right of the window. 3. Click the Edit profile option. 4. In the “User picture” section, click the Choose a file… button. Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services Page 3 of 4 5. In the resulting pop‐up window, click the Upload a file link, then click the Browse button, locate your image file, and then click the Open button (Choose on Macintosh). 6. Click the Upload this file button. 7. For the benefit of anyone using a screen reader, type a brief description of the image in the Picture description text box. 8. Click the Update profile button. Documentation courtesy of UIT Learning Technology Services Page 4 of 4