How to Edit your Moodle Profile Settings

Summary

Your profile in Moodle is where your personal information and picture reside. Some of the information can be customized by individuals.

Step by Step Tutorial

Students and instructors can edit their user profile by following these steps:

From any Moodle page: Click on your name in the upper right corner of Moodle and select Preferences.

Edit profile:

Use the Description box to enter some text about yourself to inform others who view your profile. You can also add information about how your name is pronounced and a list of interests and other personal information as you wish.
You can also upload a profile picture so that other course members can connect with you visually. To add a new picture, follow one of the following steps:
- Click the paper icon > Choose File > Select picture and “open” > Upload this file
- Drag and drop your image file into the dashed square.
Click "Update profile" to complete

Note: your web browser program may "hold onto" the old version even after you upload or change the picture. If you see the new picture in your profile, then just clear your browser cache and the new picture should show up.

Preferred Language: English (United States) (en_us) is likely the best option. The other English pack is based on Australian English.

Forum Preferences:

Email digest type: Default is no digest where you will get an email for each post for any forum to which your are subscribed. Alternates are a daily email with all full posts or only all subjects.
Forum auto-subscribe: Subscribing to a forum will trigger an email based on the Email digest type.
- - Yes: when I post, subscribe me to that forum discussion
  - No: don't automatically subscribe me to forum discussions (default)
Forum tracking: Marks posts as read or unread to make it easy to track which forum posts you have already read.
- - Yes: highlight new posts for me
  - No: don't keep track of posts I have seen
When sending forum post notifications: When you are notified of a forum post via email subscription, you can choose whether or not to mark the post as read for the purpose of forum tracking. (Available only when Forum tracking is set to Yes.)

Editor preferences: Leave set to Default editor

Calendar preferences: This allows you to manage time display, first day of week, upcoming events, and filter settings for your Moodle calendar.

Content bank preferences: Leave set to Public.

Message preferences: This setting for Email controls whether you will get an email to alert you to new messages as well as who can email you. It is recommended that you choose "My contacts and anyone in my courses"

Notification Preferences: We recommend leaving both Online and Offline settings set to ON. Be very cautious if you set any of these to the Off state as then you may not get email notifications from Moodle forum posts or other components. Moodle Announcements are a type of forum, so it is important to keep forum notification preferences enabled. See Forum Preferences to disable auto-subscription of other forum types.

Blogs, Roles, and Portfolios

These features of Moodle have no configurable settings and so do not need to be customized unless instructed by your instructor or program of study.