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title: "Editing the User profile in the My Profile Settings of Moodle"
description: "Users can edit their profiles within the My profile settings of the Settings section in Moodle 2.3. The User profile can be customized and fine tuned for specific Course related information. Extra..."
url: https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/edu/moodle/edit-profile/
date: 2012-10-26
modified: 2021-08-16
author: "InMotion Hosting Contributor"
categories: ["Moodle"]
type: post
lang: en
---

# Editing the User profile in the My Profile Settings of Moodle

Users can edit their profiles within the **My profile settings** of the **Settings** section in Moodle 2.3. The **User profile** can be customized and fine tuned for specific Course related information. Extra fields can also be added to the profile. See the [Editing User profile fields in Moodle](/support/edu/moodle/user-profile-fields/) tutorial on this. This tutorial will briefly explain the User profile settings.

### Modifying My Profile Settings in the Moodle Edit Profile page

1. [Log into the Moodle Dashboard](/support/edu/moodle/moodle-login-administrator/)
2. [![edit-profile-1-select-moodle](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/edu_moodle_101_edit-profile_edit-profile-1-select.gif)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/edu_moodle_101_edit-profile_edit-profile-1-select.gif) Navigate to **My profile settings** > **Edit profile** in the **Settings **section on the left. **Important!** Keep in mind that [Editing must be turned on](/support/edu/moodle/creating-courses-in-moodle/) in the Settings section in order to edit any of these options.
3. [![edit-profile-2-general-moodle](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/edu_moodle_101_edit-profile_edit-profile-2-general.gif)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/edu_moodle_101_edit-profile_edit-profile-2-general.gif) Next the **User Profile** page will load. The first section is the general information for the user. In this section, the Username and password can be changed. Also the basic information like **First name** and Last name (**Surname**), **Email address**, **City/Town**, **Country**, **Language**, and **Description** can be changed or edited here. [![edit-profile-3-drag-image-moodle](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/edu_moodle_101_edit-profile_edit-profile-3-drag-image.gif)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/edu_moodle_101_edit-profile_edit-profile-3-drag-image.gif) The user can upload an **Avatar** or **profile picture** in the **Edit Profile page**. In the **User Picture** section, drag an image to the **New picture** block. This will automatically upload an image to the user profile. [![edit-profile-4-interests-options-moodle](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/edu_moodle_101_edit-profile_edit-profile-4-interests-options.gif)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/edu_moodle_101_edit-profile_edit-profile-4-interests-options.gif) The **Interests** box if for listing Course related interests that will display on the **User profile**. Also, the Users webpage, phone number, Instant Messenger IDs for Skype, AIM, Yahoo, and MSN can be added in the **Optional** area. When done with the User Profile page, click **Update profile**.
4. [![edit-profile-5-final-moodle](https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/edu_moodle_101_edit-profile_edit-profile-5-final.gif)](/support/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/edu_moodle_101_edit-profile_edit-profile-5-final.gif) Finally, when viewing the profile, the **View profile** page will look like the following snapshot.

This concludes the article for Editing the User profile in the My Profile Settings of Moodle. Please check the next article on [Configuring notification methods for incoming messages in Moodle](/support/edu/moodle/user-messaging/). If the previous tutorial was missed, please visit Please check the next article on [Restoring Moodle from a backup](/support/edu/moodle/restoring-moodle-backup/) to review the article. For more information on this Education Channel please visit [Getting Started with Moodle – Moodle](/support/edu/software/understanding-software-verisons/)