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Learner Profile Data

Moodle learners can enter the following information into their profiles on the Moodle Sandbox site:

  • First Name (required)

  • Last Name (required)

  • Email Address (required)

  • Email Visibility

    • Hidden

      • This hides the email address from all learners, but not staff.

    • Visible to Course Participants

      • This hides the email address from all learners who do not share a course enrollment.

    • Visible to Everyone

  • MoodleNet Profile ID

    • MoodleNet is Moodle’s OER platform

  • City/Town

  • Country

  • Timezone

  • Preferred Theme

    • Users can choose to modify their site layout between installed themes

  • Description

    • A personal bio

  • User picture

    • Includes a field for alternative/descriptive text

  • Additional names

    • First name - Phonetic

    • Last name - Phonetic

    • Middle name

    • Alternative name

  • Interests

    • Allows learners to enter tags

  • Optional

    • ID Number

    • Institution

    • Department

    • Phone

    • Mobile Phone

    • Address

Administrators can fully customise which fields appear on user profiles, including the addition of custom fields, so it’s likely that this may include some fields that have been included on the sandbox site for demonstration purposes, as I’m not able to find a better source for which fields are enabled by default. That being said, it’s likely that the profile data is close to default as there’s not much reason to customise the sandbox, which is reset hourly.

Learner Profile Page(s)

Moodle has two primary profile pages - a site (full) profile, and a course profile.

Full Profile

Moodle full profile page displays the following tools, data, and sections to the user when they view their own site profile:

  • Message - A quick button to message the learner through Moodle’s chat system

  • Description - Appears at the top of the page, above the rest of the details.

  • User Details

    • Email address (as well as whether it is hidden from other users or not)

    • MoodleNet Profile ID

    • Country

    • City/Town

    • Time Zone

    • Interests

      • Clicking a tag shows all learners who have that tag as an interest

  • Reports

    • Browser Sessions - A report showing when and where their account was accessed

    • Grades Overview - A report showing all enrolled courses and their current grades

  • Privacy and Policies

    • A link to the site’s data retention policy

  • Login Activity

    • First Login Date

    • Last Login Date (Which is always the current login when viewing your own profile)

  • Course Details

    • A list of enrolled courses with links to their course profile for each course

  • Mobile App

    • A QR code that is generated every 15 minutes to allow the profile to be linked to the Moodle mobile app if enabled.

  • Miscellaneous

    • Blog Entries

      • A list of all blog entries made by the learner (and the option to create a new blog post)

    • Forum Entries

      • A list of all forum activity, including comments within posts

    • Forum Discussions

      • A list of all forum posts originally started by the learner

    • Learning Plans

A list of all learning plans tied to competencies. This is part of Moodle’s competency-based education system. Learners can view these, as well as uploading evidence of prior learning for instructors to review and tie to their created learning plans.

Unfortunately, I am not able to see which of these details are available to other learners, as there is only one user account available on the Moodle sandbox site.

Permission can be given to users to modify the blocks available on their own user profile pages, and any user profile data can be included in user profile pages as configured by site administrators. So the appearance, layout, contents, and fields available on Moodle profile pages are fully customisable.

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