Title: Using Profiles
Course: Using Moodle > Section: Profiles

Profile Overview

The profile provides information about each user. The information includes:

- First Name
- Last Name
- City/town
- Course profiles (courses that the user is enrolled).
- First access
- Last access
- Picture/Avatar

Below, you will see an example of what a Teacher will see:

The Links in the Red Box allow a number of changes to be made to the users profile ...

More information on the changes that can be made will be found on subsequent pages ...

Accessing your Profile

You can access the profile page in at least two ways:

Desktop:

1. by clicking on My Dashboard along the navigation bar, and then choosing Profile.

Mobile:

OR

Desktop (method 2)

2. Through the Navigation block by clicking on My profile | View profile.

MOBILE:

Looks the same as the desktop- scroll down to view.

Profile Types

There are actually two profiles, an overall profile and a course profile. The course profile can be very useful as it provides a direction email link to the students.  The simplest way to tell the difference is if the email address is displayed. (You'll also see a Full profile link on the Course profile).

Course Profile view:

Viewing and Editing My Profile

If you click on the Edit Profile link (shown below), you will be able to change a fields in your User Profile (however, you cannot change your user name ... that is fixed when you are first enrolled).

Edit Profile ...

The following shows the first few fields that can be edited ... Please Note: Students may be LOCKED OUT and therefore unable to edit some fields:

Changing Password ...

All users will be able to change Passwords by clicking on the Change Password link in the Profile Navigation Block.

Change Messaging Options ...

You can change some of the settings that control how emails and other notifications are dealt within Moodle.  PLEASE NOTE: Due to District Network Policies, MOST Moodle email options DO NOT work.  Forums and Blogs DO work since they are totally within Moodle, as does internal Moodle Communications.