Personalisation, online identities and avatars

. There are three things that I ask students to do when they first log onto our VLE at Rickypedia. 1. Change their password 2. Fill in the profile information (see previous post on customising profile feeds) 3. Create an avatar (an online picture representing them) The instructions I use for students are publicly available […]

Customising Profile Fields

Setting up custom fields on users’ personal profile is really easy. The standard fields in a moodle install are things like skype, msn, icq, e-mail, website. I felt a bit uneasy about encouraging students to put in all of those personal details which I or the school could have no control over, particularly personal websites […]