User profile block settings
    • 05 Apr 2023
    • 2 minutes to read

    User profile block settings


    Article Summary

    You can select the following options to display in the User profile block:

    Category
    Description
    Notes

    User details

    Displays a number of fields from the user's profile, such as the user's email address, time zone, which tenant they're in, their contributions, department, interests and more.

    You can select any combination of fields to show in this block.

    Badges

    Where badges have been enabled via Configure features, this area will display any badges awarded to the user with a thumbnail of the image and link to the badge details.

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    Job assignments

    Displays details on the user's job assignments. Clicking on the job assignment name provides information relating to the associated manager, position, organisation, appraiser and temporary manager, where set.

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    My Learning

    Contains access to the Record of Learning, which provides record of all the learning the user has completed or in which they are currently enrolled. Also provides a list of the learning plans the user currently has assigned to them.

    You can choose to show the Record of Learning and Learning plans when configuring the block.

    Course details

    Lists and links to the courses in which the user is enrolled.

    The courses shown here are determined by the following factors:
    • The Course limit setting (in the Navigation settings)
    • Whether the current date is between the enrolment start and end dates
    • Audience visibility
    • Course and category visibility
    • User permissions
    • Whether the user is logged in or a guest user

    Miscellaneous

    This section contains a number of assorted links and what is contained here will depend partly on the user's activity as well as whether certain features are enabled on your site. This section includes links for blog entries and forum posts made by the user, as well as links to forum discussions started by the user.

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    Reports

    If you are logged in as a Site Administrator you may also have access to these reports:

    • Course completion: List of courses the user has completed with details of completion criteria
    • Today's logs: Report of all activities for the current day
    • All logs: Report of all activities for all days
    • Outline report: Summarised report on site announcements forum posts
    • Browser sessions: Shows details of the user's browser sessions on the site
    • Complete report: Report on site announcements forum posts
    • Grades overview: Shows an overview of the user's grades
    • Grade: Displays all the graded activities for your course(s) in a table with the grade and any feedback provided

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    Administration

    This section can also contain a number of links related to user data management including the following:

    • Manage user login: Allows you to view the user's login information and change the user's password.
    • Preferences: Users can adjust their preferences for their account and manage their private files area. 
    • User data: This is viewable by Site Administrators on a user's profile. It allows them to see a summary report on all of a user's data within the system. There is also a button to Audit user data which provides a fuller list of details held about the user on the system. You can also update the automatic purge types for a user.
    • Manage private files: Private files allow you to upload and manage files that can then be added, via the Private files repository, to courses, forums, and other areas of the site. 
    • Log in as: Allows Site Administrators to log in as a user to see what the site looks like from their perspective, and assist with troubleshooting if required.

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    Login activity

    This lets the user check if there has been any unauthorised access to their account by displaying the first and last access to the site and the last IP address to login on the user account.

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