Edit your Moodle profile and preferences

Edit your Moodle profile and preferences

Why use it?

Your Moodle profile contains information such as your name, email address and profile picture. All information in your profile is visible to other LSE Moodle users who click on your name in places such as the course participants list or in a discussion forum.

While you are unable to change your email address and are unlikely to change your name and country, there are other changes and additions you may well want to make, the most common of which are covered below.

Step 1: Edit your Profile 

Go to your profile from the user icon or your user image, which is located in the top right-hand corner of the page and click on Profile from the drop down list.

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Click the profile menu option

 

 

Edit user details

Under User details, click Edit profile.

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Select ‘Edit profile’ from profile settings

From the profile settings you can choose a User picture, list your Interests and other Optional fields. Guidance on updating your Moodle display name follows.

Changing your Moodle display name

To update your Moodle display name, first follow steps edit your profile:Edit your Moodle profile and preferences | Step 1: Edit your Profile

Within profile General settings, you can change your Moodle username via the First name and Last name fields, as in the example provided below.

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Update your Moodle display name in profile settings

Your updated username will immediately be reflected in your Moodle profile.

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Moodle username updated to reflect changes

Note: some fields cannot be changed in profile settings, such as email address or username. If you have questions about updating these fields email eden.digital@lse.ac.uk

Step 2: Edit your Preferences

Go to your profile from the user icon or your user image, which is located in the top right-hand corner of the page and click on Preferences from the drop-down list.

You will be given the option to edit your preferences in various different categories. Notification preferences, where you can set how often you would like to get email notifications related to activities such as forum discussions, are the most commonly updated set of preferences.

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