Profiles

Profiles

Overview

Every user has a profile page that includes information such as a description, account details, friends, photos, social media links and more.

The information that is visible on a user's profile page depends on your account type and your portal's security settings. 

Editing profile information

To change your profile information:

  1. Click your profile picture.
  2. Click Edit.
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If Edit does not display on your profile, it may be disabled on your platform. 

User profile page with the Edit profile button highlighted

The Edit pop-up allows you to change your picture, profile description, password, account info and social media IDs.

Edit profile pop-up

To edit your profile picture:
  1. Click Picture.
  2. Click + Add picture to upload a picture.
    1. Select a photo.
    2. Click Save.
  3. Or click on an avatar to use as your profile picture instead.
User profile, Change picture page

To edit your profile description:

  1. Click Description.
  2. Enter a new description.
  3. Click Save.
User profile, Edit description page

To change your password:

  1. Click Password.
  2. Enter your current password, a new password and confirm the new password.
  3. Click Save.
User profile, Change password page

To edit your profile information:

  1. Click Info.
  2. Update your name, basic information and contact details.
  3. Click Save.
User profile, Edit info page

To edit your social media links:

  1. Click Social Media.
  2. The platform supports Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram links. Enter your social media IDs as you want to display them on your profile.
    1. When entering your account ID, enter your ID, NOT the entire URL. For example, in the case of Facebook, if the URL is "https://www.facebook.com/sally.johnson.12"  you only have to insert your ID, which is at the end of the URL "sally.johnson.12".
  3. Click Save.
Social media pop-up

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Note - Administrators can prevent learners from adding social media IDs.

About tab

The About tab on your profile page includes your profile description, as well as your awards, certificates and badges.


Info tab

The Info tab on your profile page includes your name, basic information and contact information. 

Profile page, Info tab

Enrolled tab

The Enrolled tab on your profile page displays information about courses and paths you are enrolled in, including Compliance courses.

Goals tab

The Goals tab on your profile page displays your current goals and your Mastery level progress.
You can add, remove, or pause goals from this page.

Groups tab

The Groups tab of your profile page display a list of your groups, the type of groups, number of members, scope and more.
Profile page, Groups tab

Completed tab

The Completed tab on your profile page lists all of your completed courses and paths.  
Profile page, Completed tab

Public profile

Administrators may enable public profiles on your platform. If public profiles are enabled, they are not activated by default. Your profile status is indicated on your profile banner. 

To activate a public profile, click on the cog icon.


Then select a unique URL for your profile and check Enable profile.

You can also select if you want to show friends and/or allow visitors to send a message through your public profile.
User profile, Public profile settings
You can click on the cog at any time to change your public profile settings.

Profile banner image

You can also change the background picture of your profile page:
  1. Click the cog in the upper-left corner of the image. 
  2. Click Change Picture.
  3. Select a photo from your computer.
  4. Click Save.

Profile URL

When a public profile is enabled, its URL is displayed on the user's profile page and can be seen by everyone.
User profile header showing the public profile cog and edit header cog

If you visit the public URL, you will see the public version of the profile page.

  1. Here you will see the awards received by the user. Click See all to see a larger tiled view of the awards.
  2. If the class or learning path associated with an award has a public catalog page, it will be linked to that page.
  3. If friends are shown, a list of the friends that have public profile pages is listed in the right column with links to their public profiles. 
Public profile page


Left bar

Your profile page includes additional options on the secondary Profile menu. Navigating through the tabs on the left bar, you can view settings, purchases, awards, portfolio and more. The tabs that display depend on your platform setup. 

Settings

The settings page allows you to make updates such as:

  1. Change your display and notification settings.
  2. Update your Social Media IDs.
  3. Enable Integrations with Google Drive, Google Meet and OneDrive.
  4. Update your language and Time zone.

User profile, Settings page

Privacy

The Privacy page allows you to update settings such as allowing friendships and chat requests. 



Purchases

The Purchases page displays a list of purchased courses, including price, purchase date, quantity and status. 


Awards

The Awards page displays all of your awards and certificates. Certificates can be opened and listed by clicking on their icon.

User profile, Awards page

Blog

If enabled, the Blog page will display your personal blog posts. 

Portfolio

If enabled, you can use the Portfolio page to add items such as Files, HTML packages, Web resources, Tools, Folders and Favorites resources to keep in your portfolio.

Mentors

The Mentors page will display any mentors you have in the platform.

Friends

The Friends page will display any friends you have in the platform.

Right bar

The right column of your profile page includes additional widgets. The widgets that display depend on your platform setup. 

Account

The Account widget displays the date you joined, your recent activity and your login credentials. 


Site-wide game

If you are a member of a site-wide game, your acquired points, number of badges, and ranking in the game will display in the widget.

User profile, Game widget

Mentors

This widget lists your mentor(s).

User profile, Mentor widget

Friends

This widget lists your friends.

    User profile, Friends widget

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