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Moodle 2 Administration

You're reading from   Moodle 2 Administration Moodle is the world‚Äôs most popular virtual learning environment and this book will help systems administrators and technicians administer the system effectively. Based on real-world scenarios with plenty of screenshots, it‚Äôs an essential practical gui

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2011
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849516044
Length 420 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Moodle 2 Administration
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
1. www.PacktPub.com
2. PacktLib.PacktPub.com
3. Preface
1. Moodle Installation FREE CHAPTER 2. The Moodle System 3. Courses, Users, and Roles 4. Course Management 5. User Management 6. Managing Permissions: Roles and Capabilities 7. Moodle Look and Feel 8. Moodle Plugins 9. Moodle Configuration 10. Moodle Reporting 11. Moodle Security and Privacy 12. Moodle Performance and Optimization 13. Backup and Restore 14. Installing Third-party Add-ons 15. Moodle Integration via Web Services 16. Moodle Networking Configuration Settings

User profiles


Other than guest users, each user has a profile that contains information about him or her. We will first deal with the information that is stored for each user and how it is organized in Moodle.

You can view or change your own profile by clicking on your name, which is usually found in the header or footer of your system. Click on the Edit profile link in the Settings block to view the most commonly used fields. To modify the profiles of other users, click on the Edit link besides their name in Users | Accounts | Browse list of users.

Profile fields

Moodle user profiles are divided into a number of categories, of which the first four cannot be changed via the Moodle user interface:

  • General: Standard user fields

  • User picture: Image of the user

  • Interests: Tags for social networking activities

  • Optional: Additional user information

  • User-defined: Newly created fields

General category

The following screenshot shows the profile fields of the General category:

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