Manage Preferences & Notification
Preferences can be managed in two different level.
Site wide by an Administrator
User level by an individual user (including an Admin)
Notification settings site wide preferences
As an Administrator of the platform. You can setup default preferences for all users across the site and lock the preferences.
Login with your Administrator account
Navigate to the Site administration page
Go to General tab (Site administration first tab)
Navigate to Messaging > Notification settings
On the Notification preferences page enable, disable specific notifications side wide for all users and lock the ability to modify preferences for each users.
Note: Enabling and disabling the mobile notifications won’t be available as the ability to connect with the Mobile app is not enabled on this site.
Individual preferences (Notification and others)
Login with to your account (including Admin)
Click on your Profile icon on the top right corner
Select Preferences
On the Preferences page, select your preferences for each section (refer below)
User account
Links here allow users to edit their profile information and change their password, specify how they wish to receive forum and other notifications, choose a text editor (if allowed) and view/reset their RSS token.
Preferred language
Note that changing your preferred language here will only affect the Moodle interface and not the actual course content.
Forum preferences
Email digest type
This setting determines how you receive any posts from Forums to which you are subscribed, allowing you to receive messages individually or on a daily basis.
Forum auto-subscribe
This setting lets you decide if you want email copies of posts that are added to forums. If you set this to subscribe, the system will automatically email you copies of new posts in discussions that you post in, unless you manually override it when posting.
Forum tracking
Enabling forum tracking means highlighting the posts you have not read yet, which should improve your forum navigation.
Editor preferences
This can usually be left as 'Default editor'. In a new installation this is the Atto editor. If your admin allows it, you can change to the TinyMCE editor.
If you have the Atto editor as default, you can install the Cloze editor for Atto plugin to easily write Embedded Answers (Cloze) question type.
If you want to use the Cloze editor for TinyMCE plugin to write Embedded Answers (Cloze) question type, you must choose TinyMCE as your text editor.
If you find your browser is not letting you edit text, change this setting to 'Plain text editor'.
If other editors have been enabled by the site administrator, you can select them here.
Calendar preferences
Set your preferences for calendar. Example: First day of the week, upcoming events to look-ahead
Content bank preferences
Set your content bank visibility (Public/Unlisted)
Notification Preferences
Set your preferences for getting notification for your Learning Management System.
Example:
An user can entirely disable the notifications from this site or choose what notification to receive and what not to.
An user can also select to opt out email notifications when you are already active in the platform
Multi-factor authentications preferences
Setup your preferences for multi-factor authentication. Including security key or an Authenticator app setup
Badges
Here the user can manage and download their badges, set privacy levels and connect to their backpack.
Roles
Users with the capability to assign roles (moodle/role:assign), override permissions (moodle/role:override) and review permissions for others (moodle/role:review) in the system context (by default managers) can review and change a user's role assignments and review and change permissions for the user.
Miscellaneous
What displays here depends on the permissions and roles of the user.
If Event monitoring is enabled on the site, a link will be available in this section.