The Moodle Profile determines what is shown in staff accounts and what notifications to receive.
Editing your profile and controlling your privacy settings can be an important part of personalising your Moodle course, and defining how your profile will be presented to staff and students.
The profile page will begin populated with basic user details, but you can be quite creative as to how you present yourself to your students.
Edit user profile settings
The Moodle profile page allows you to set personal details about yourself which you think may be useful for others to know; this can include city, country, contact information, time zone, and profile picture.
Click 'Get Started' to view the step-by-step guide.
Edit preferences
The preferences page allows you to control aspects of your account such as notification and text editor preferences.
We recommend that within the "Forum preferences", you set the Email digest type field and When sending forum post notifications field to your preferred options.
- The Email digest type field allows you to choose how often to receive forum notifications. The email digest can be enabled to group all forum notifications into a single daily email.
- The When sending forum post notifications field allows you to determine whether posts in the forum will be marked as read once you receive the forum notification
Click 'Get Started' to view the step-by-step guide.
Edit privacy settings
The privacy settings page determines what information is visible to other users in Moodle. By default, the information is only visible to you and other staff.
Click 'Get Started' to view the step-by-step guide.
How to disable email notifications?
The Moodle Notification preferences can be changed to allow or stop Moodle from sending email notifications:
1. In Moodle, click on your name towards the top right and select 'Preferences'
2. In the user account section, select 'Notification preferences'
3. Change the desired preferences on or off to get/stop emails
The 'Disable notifications' checkbox can be enabled to stop email notifications entirely.
Can I change my email on Moodle?
Email addresses cannot be updated in the Moodle profile.
To update your email or set up your initial profile, please contact the IT Service Centre. Once they make the change, it will take about 24 hours to update in Moodle.
Can I change my name in Moodle?
Users can only update their Alternate name in Moodle.
1. In Moodle, click your profile icon towards the top right
2. Select 'Profile' and click 'Edit profile'
3. Update your 'Alternate name' field and press save
The alternate name will appear in brackets beside the full name in the participants list. The official first or last name will need to be updated in the myUNSW staff profile managed by UNSW HR.