First name of the Student user.

Surname of the Student user.

The Student user's email address. This should be an actively used email address, and is used by the system to send correspondence to the user.

There are 3 options as follows:

Hide my email address from everyone
Choosing this option effectively hides your email address within the system and is not viewable in your profile.

Allow everyone to see my email address
Choosing this option displays your email address within the system and is viewable in your profile.

Allow only other courses members to see my email address
Choosing this option makes your email address viewable to only fellow course members. This means that all users not part of your courses cannot view your email address.

One can either enable or disable emails being sent to an address. Note that if this is disabled, Student users will not receive any mail from the site.

This field is used to identify you by geographical location.

This field is used to identify you by geographical location.

This field is used to convert time-related messages on the system (such as the time stated next to forum posts) from the default Moodle timezone to the correct time in whichever zone you have selected.

A Moodle site may have multiple languages installed. This sets the user's preferred language using a drop down menu. This then becomes the user's default language upon future successful logins.

In this field you can enter some text about yourself, be it information about your studies, hobbies, qualifications or anything else. This text will be visible to anyone that views your profile.

This shows the picture associated with a profile. The user's picture (also known as an Avatar) can be changed in this section. Until this is changed by the user, the default Moodle picture is automatically used when a new user is created.

Checking this box and using the update button will delete the current picture and restore the Moodle site default user picture.

This field has a Browse button to allow the user to find and then upload a new picture for the profile. Uploaded image types supported include gif, jpg, and png. The file upload size shown is the maximum size (in MB) allowed.

One can provide a description for the image. When this is set, it appears when the mouse rolls over the picture.

This setting sets the format of email communication received from the system. There are two options available:

"Pretty HTML format" (which means that the messages will be formatted with different fonts and colours)

"Plain text format" (plain text with no fancy formatting or colours).

This setting determines how one receives any posts from forums to which one is subscribed. There are three possible choices:

• No digest (one receives individual emails per forum post)
• Complete (a single daily email that sends the user all posts made per day in one email)
• Subjects (a single daily email with only the post topics included in the email).

This setting lets you decide if you want email copies of posts that are added to forums. If you set this to subscribe, the system will automatically email copies of new posts in forums that you post in, unless you manually choose to override this using the available options when actually posting.

Enabling forum tracking means that when you are logged in, posts that you have not read are highlighted, which should improve your forum navigation.

This can usually be left on "Use HTML editor (some browsers only)". This allows for text formatting options, but requires newer browsers. If you find your browser is not letting you edit text, change this setting to "Use standard web forms".

This setting lets you decide if you want email copies of posts that are added to forums. If you set this to subscribe, the system will automatically email copies of new posts in forums that you post in, unless you manually choose to override this using the available options when actually posting.

The following fields are standard within Moodle,enabling you to add more contact details about yourself:

• Web page
• ICQ number
• Skype ID
• AIM ID
• Yahoo ID
• MSN ID
• ID number
• Institution
• Department
• Phone
• Mobile Phone
• Address

This field pertaining to any user's account may be changed by an Administrator. Can only contain alphabetical letters or numbers (underscore character is not permitted; however, a period is permissible).

A new password can be set by an Administrator pertaining to any user's account in Moodle.

This forces users to choose a password when they next log in. This setting is also useful for the bulk uploading of new users:

An initial password for all users can be set by the administrator for bulk uploading, but this will then force the user to create a new password when they first login.