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Moodle 3 Administration, Third Edition

You're reading from   Moodle 3 Administration, Third Edition An administrator's guide to configuring, securing, customizing, and extending Moodle

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2016
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ISBN-13 9781783289714
Length 492 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

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 Logging and Reporting 11. Moodle Security and Privacy 12. Moodle Performance and Optimization 13. Backup and Restore 14. Moodle Admin Tools 15. Moodle Integration 16. Moodle Networking A. Configuration Settings Index

User profiles

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

You can view your own profile by selecting the Preferences item in the drop-down menu beside your name at the top of the screen. Click on the Edit profile link in the User account section to change your profile details. To modify the profiles of other users, click on the Edit icon beside their name by navigating to Users | Accounts | Browse list of users.

Profile fields

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

  • General: Standard user fields
  • User picture: Image of the user
  • Additional names: Phonetic names, middle name, and alternate name
  • Interests: Tags for social networking activities
  • Optional: Additional user information
  • User-defined: Newly created fields

General category

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