The document discusses the advanced profile settings in Moodle for receiving emails and subscribing to forum posts. It explains how to access the advanced settings by clicking on your profile name and the "Show Advanced" button. It then describes the various email and forum settings like email format, digest type, forum auto-subscribe, forum tracking, and other preferences. The document provides guidance on configuring the different options to control how users receive notifications and subscribe to forums through Moodle.

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and Subscribing Forum Posts in Moodle

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After you have logged in Moodle, you can see your name at the top right hand corner of the screen. Click on your name.

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Click Edit profile

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On the right hand side, there a Show Advanced button. Please click on it.

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You can see different settings regarding the use of email and forum, etc. in Moodle.

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Email display and Email activated have been introduced in another self-learn material Customizing my Profile.

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Email format means the layout of the email you receive in Moodle. There are two types of format you can choose.

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Pretty HTML format Plain text format
Pretty HTML format retains the text formatting, pictures and hyperlinks of an email,
which will all be removed in Plain text format.

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Nowadays most email clients such as Outlook or Gamil support HTML-formatted email
so you can just choose Pretty HTML format.

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Email digest type allows you to control how you receive email notifications from Moodle for your subscribed forum(s).
There are three types of email digest.

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No digest (single email per forum post) means you will receive an email immediately
when there is a new post in your subscribed forum.

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Complete (daily email with full posts) means that you will receive ONE email daily,
which includes all the new forum posts (FULL posts) for that day.

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Subjects (daily email with subjects only) that you will receive ONE email daily,
which includes all the subjects of the new forum posts for that day.

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You can choose auto subscribe to a forum after you have posted a message in the Forum auto-subscribe column.
You will receive copies of the posts via emails when people reply your messages or any new threads in that forum.
This will save your time going to different forums to check and read replies.

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Make sure you have activated your email and set the proper email digest type if you select Yes for Forum auto-subscribe,
otherwise you will NOT receive any email notification from Moodle.

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Forum tracking allows you to see how many unread posts you have in each forum.

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The unread post count will be shown besides the forum entry page.

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When editing text allows you to edit your content with HTML editor in an interface which similar to Microsoft Word.
Beside Bold , italic or underline the text, you also can added emotions icon, pictures or embed the youtube video into it.
Those feature will be discussed in another video.

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AJAX and Javascript allows you to use some advanced navigation features such as drag and drop.
But these features may cause problems for some browsers. You can turn it off and just use basic web features if necessary.

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Screen reader is a form of ‘assistive technology’ for blind or partially-sighted users to interpret what is displayed on the screen.
The default option is No.

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Remember to click on Update profile after you have finished.

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