Setting Up Your Moodle Profile
Your Profile in Moodle tells a little bit about you. You only have to
set this up one time and it can be accessed from all courses.
There are two places you can access your Profile. One is by clicking
either your name or picture in the top-right corner of the Moodle course
page and clicking My Profile. The other is in the Settings block which
typically appears on the left side of your course home page. If
you click the My profile settings link in the
Settings block, a drop-down list displays and you can click on
Edit profile.
Check the following:
- Alternate name: Optional, but can be used if
you go by a nickname like "Bob" for Robert
- Email address: Make sure that your email
address is correct or correct it. You should set this to your SCC
email address (currently your my.southeast.edu email address).
- City/town: Required, but you can enter your
campus location instead of your personal town.
- Select a country: Required.
- Description: Optional. If you enter a brief
description of yourself, remember that it should remain school-appropriate and
should not be too personal, because any Moodle user can view your
profile. Remember also that your Profile is not specific to any class,
so do not type course-related information here.
Your profile is set one time for the entire Moodle system.
- Email display: "Allow only other course members
to see my email address" is recommended over allowing everyone to
see it.
- Email format: Pretty HTML format is recommended.
- Email digest type: Your preference.
- Forum auto-subscribe: "No: don't automatically
subscribe me to forums" is recommended.
- Forum tracking: "Yes: highlight new posts for
me" is recommended.
- Preferred language: Leave at "English - United
States (en_us)".
- User picture: Encouraged by many instructors,
but an optional field. Remember, school-appropriate and not too
personal.
- Interests and Optional information: Again,
optional, but keep it school-appropriate and not too personal if
used.
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