The document discusses how to customize a user's profile in Moodle. It explains that a user can click their name after logging in to access their profile. On the profile page, basic information like country and city are displayed by default. Users can click "Edit profile" to change their profile. They can choose who can see their email by selecting an option from the email display menu. Users can also add a description, interests, and photo to their profile. When finished making changes, clicking "Update profile" will save the edits.

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After logging in Moodle, your name displays at the top right corner of the screen.

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To edit your profile, click on your name.

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In the profile page, the basic information such as your country and city/town are given as Hong Kong by default.

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Click the Edit profile to edit your profile.

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On the Edit profile page, you can see your Surname, First name and email address.
These information cannot be changed.

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You can choose who see your email address by clicking on Email display to open the pull-down menu.

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If you decide not to release your email to anyone, select Hide my email address from everyone

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On the contrarily, if you want to display your email address to everyone,
select Allow everyone to see my email address.

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If only your teacher(s), classmate(s) or your students, co-teacher(s), if any, are allowed to see your email address, click
Allow only other course members to see my email address.

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Make sure your email is enabled in the Email activated field,
otherwise you will not be able to receive any emails from your instructor(s), students, classmates or system administrator.

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You can select your Preferred language, e.g. English, Simplified Chinese or Traditional Chinese from the pull-down menu.

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However, if your instructor has already set the preferred language for the course, your setting will not be effective.

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In the Description field,...

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You must enter something for your profile, e.g., your contact information or a welcome message, etc.

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Note that this is a mandatory field.

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You can upload a picture to your profile. The picture can be viewed by other users in the discussion forum.
Your default portrait is a smiling face.

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Click on Browse...

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choose your image file, e.g., jpeg or png format, then click on Open.

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You can also enter your interest in the profile.

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Say in this case, we enter “Education Technology” and “Hiking”.

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Click on Show Advanced in the Optional box if you want to provide additional information for communication.

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Note that information in this area will be visible to other users.

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But information here will not be visible to others, e.g., your students.
Please make use of the Description field we mentioned earlier if you want to show your contact information to your students.

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Remember to click on Update profile after you have finished.

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To further change the settings of email and forum, etc., click on Show Advanced button on the right hand side of the Edit profile
page. We will discuss this in another self-learn material.

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