User Profile
Editing your Moodle Profile
Each user has a personal profile in Moodle.
Locating your profile
To edit your profile information, you must be logged in to Moodle.
- Locate and click your name in the upper right of the screen.
- Your profile will open.
- To edit profile information, click the [Edit Profile] tab.
Changing your profile picture
Part of your profile is a small image—representative of you—that will be displayed next to your forum posts and in other activities.
To add a profile picture:
- Navigate to the Edit Profile screen (see Locating your profile, above).
- Scroll down to the section labeled "Picture of"
- Click the [Browse] button to locate an appropriate image on your computer.
- The picture can be a maximum of 50MB.
- The picture must be in JPG or PNG format.
- Moodle will crop the image to a 100x100 pixel square.
- Once selected, click [Update profile] at the bottom of the page.
- When you are taken back to your profile page, the image may not appear to have changed. Click the Reload/Refresh button in your browser.
Optional/Advanced information
Clicking the [Show Advanced button] will display additional fields for your profile.
You may choose to include some of the following information:
- Web page address
- IDs for common peer-to-peer and social networking sites such as:
- Department
- Phone numbers
- Campus Address