Update Profile & Change Settings
- On any Moodle page, click on the arrow next to your name in the top right hand corner and then click on the Edit profile link
- Any field with an asterisk is a required field. The required fields will already be populated with your first and last name and email address.
- As you go through the profile fields, click on each field to determine what option you prefer. To find out more about an option, click on the question mark with a circle
icon for additional information.
- Suggested personal fields you may want to update are:
- City/town
- Country
- Description (with phone #, office hours, brief bio, etc).
- Upload a picture
- When finished, scroll to the bottom of the page and click Update Profile button which will display the Preferences page.
- To elect your preferred language option;
- Click on the Preferred language option under the User Account heading
- Click on the drop down menu to select you language choice
- Click Save changes button
- To elect your Forum preferences options;
- Click on the Forum preferences option under the User Account heading
- Click on each drop down menu to select your choice
- Click Save changes button
Note: Explanation of the Forum preferences options:
Email digest type:
The default option is (Complete) Getting one email with full posts
- No digest (single email per forum post) (Use to be the default)
- No digest – you will receive one e-mail per forum post
- Complete (daily email with full posts)
- Digest – complete posts – you will receive one digest e-mail per day containing the complete contents of each forum post
- Subjects (daily email with subject only) ( Default going forward)
- Digest – subjects only – you will receive one digest e-mail per day containing just the subject of each forum post
Forum auto-subscribe: If you select Yes, once you’ve posted to any Moodle forum you’ll be subscribed to that forum and notified of all posts to it.
Forum tracking:
If you select Yes, Moodle will highlight new posts that you haven’t yet read.
- To elect your text editor option;
- Click on the Editor preferences option under the User Account heading
- Click on each drop down menu to select your choice
- Click Save changes button
- A time permits, check out and set the other options to your liking under Preferences.
Note: To edit items you can go straight to the preference page by clicking on the Preferences option.
- Click on the drop down menu next to your name in the top right hand corner and then the Preferences option.