Profile

Last modified by Anna Paul-Hasenfuss on 06.07.2026

The Profile course element allows participants of a course to introduce themselves to other course participants by providing basic personal information. The course author can adapt and thus personalise the profile with any number of freely definable text fields.

Content

- Usage: Learners' View
- Configuration: Authors' View

Usage: Learners' View

Overview

If you open the Profile course element, you will see an overview of all previously created and approved profiles. The navigation bar facilitates orientation by arranging the profiles in alphabetical order. All profiles are sorted by last name.

Your own profile is always the first to be displayed. If you do not yet have a profile, you will see the Create entry.

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Functions for users

As a user, you have access to the following functions in a Profile course element:

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Create profile

Each participant can create exactly one profile per course element.

How to do that?

Open the Profile course element. Click on Create.
3. Enter the relevant information in the text fields configured by the author. In the case of free text fields, you can choose between different text formatting options. Further information can be found on the Text editor help page. 4. If enabled for your user type, you can optionally add a profile picture. Information Please note that typing your personal information is optional. There are no mandatory fields that must be filled in to create a profile. It is up to you to decide which information you would like to share with others.
5. Then decide on the visibility of your profile. If you activate the checkbox at the bottom of the page, the profile will only be visible to other enrolled course members (i. e. it will not be public). If you deactivate the checkbox, you agree to your course being published, which means that your profile content will also be visible to guests. 6. Click on Save to complete the creation process.

View profile

In the Profile course element, you can view and read existing profiles.

How to do that?

Open the Profile course element. If at least one profile has already been created, an alphabetical navigation bar will appear below the element title. Each letter for which at least one profile has already been created is highlighted in colour. The alphabetical assignment is done based on the last name. Select the profile you want to view by clicking on it.
4. The profile opens, and you can view this person's shared information.

Edit profile

You can edit and adapt your profile information as well as your profile picture at any time.

How to do that?

Open the Profile course element. Click on your profile to open it.
3. Click on the pencil icon.
4. The same window as for creating a new profile opens. Make your desired changes. You also have the option to change or delete your profile picture. 5. Click on Save to complete the editing process.

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Delete profile

This option allows you to delete your profile. It will then be removed from the profile course element and can no longer be viewed by other users.

How to do that?

Open the Profile course element. Click on the trash can icon in the upper right corner.
3. Confirm the deletion process with Yes. Information If you delete your profile, all embedded information as well as your profile picture (if any) will be removed. You can create a new profile at any time, provided the course element is not subject to any other restrictions preventing it.

Configuration: Authors' View

In the course editor

The following functions are available to you in the course editor:

Add a profile course element

Click to open instructions on how to add a course element ...

To integrate a course element into your course, proceed as follows:

1	Open the course you want to edit. Use the pencil icon at the top of the page to open the editing mode.
2	Select a course element from the menu on the right.
3	In the new window, you can define the position of the new course element within your course structure (left navigation pane). The available positions are marked with an insert icon. To insert the new course element into an existing substructure, you need to open the substructure by clicking on the small triangle symbol next to its title. The area will open and you will again see insert icons at the positions which are available. Click on the insert icon at the desired position within the structure. The selected area will be highlighted. Confirm your choice with Insert course element.
4	The element will be inserted into the course structure at the selected position. Depending on the course element, you have to make additional configurations or add content in order to complete the configuration. For these changes to take effect, you must publish the course. The course element will then also become available in the course view.

General configuration settings

Title and description

Configuration options in the tab title and description ...

Elements	Description
Title	You need to enter a title for the course element. The title can comprise a maximum of 100 characters. All special characters and numbers are permitted. The title will appear in the navigation menu of the course and also as a heading in the content area. Changes to the title of the first course element, the so-called main course node ... If you change the title of the first course element, the new content will only be applied to the main course node and then displayed in the opened course. If you wish to edit the course title or description, you can do so using the more settings menu of the course.
Subtitle	You can enter a subtitle for the course element with a maximum of 255 characters. All special characters and numbers are permitted. The title will appear as a tooltip in the navigation menu and - if selected and configured accordingly - as a subtitle in the content area.
Description	Here you can describe the course element. The description will appear in the content area below the title. Information Depending on the settings configured in the element Display, this additional text is displayed to the user when opening the course element. The user can expand or collapse the view of the text.
Display	Define which information about the course element should be displayed in the course view. In addition to the content, you can optionally display the title and description. All course elements are provided with a reasonable presetting, which mostly includes the setting Title, description and content. You can adjust this setting in accordance with the options available for each course element.
Set link for this course element	Each course element can be accessed via fixed link addresses. Therefore, an internal and an external URL is assigned to each course element. These direct links to concrete elements can be used within courses or provided to learners. The URLs are located below the title and description of the element and will appear upon selecting Set link for this course element. External link: To refer to this course element from outside of the course or learning platform, you can use the external link and insert it, for example as a href attribute, into the desired HTML page. Internal link: To set a link to another course element within the same course, you can insert the internal link as a href attribute into the desired HTML page.
ID	You will need the ID number of the course element (on the bottom right), for example, if you wish to use the expert mode in the visibility or access tab.

Visibility

If necessary, restrict the visibility of the course element here. For more information, see the Visibility help page.

Access

If necessary, restrict the visibility of the course element here. For more information, see the Access help page.

Configuration

This tab allows you to decide which user properties should be displayed in a profile. Detailed instructions are given in the Special configuration settings section below.

Multilingualism

On this tab, different translations can be added to individual course element areas.

Special configuration settings

To configure special settings, open the Profile course element and switch to the Configuration tab.

The following functions are available to you on the Configuration tab:

Selection of user properties:

By selecting the desired checkboxes, you can decide which user properties stored in the system should be listed in a profile.
If a user creates a profile, their personal data will be displayed in the selected property fields. However, the user can decide for themselves which content they would like to share and which information they would rather want to delete or change.
If you disable the Last name user property, all profiles will be displayed together in an overview as they cannot be sorted alphabetically anymore.

Add new fields:

This option allows you to add more user properties to a profile. Click the Add button and enter a title in the text field. Using the plus and minus symbols, you can create or remove fields.

Click on Save to confirm your settings.

You can also use the Profile course element to gather opinions or expectations from your course participants.

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Participants of the course can optionally limit the visibility of their own profile to "course participants". Course participants are all users who are enrolled in one of the course's learning groups. Therefore, make sure that the course has at least one learning group and that all users who are allowed to see such restricted profiles are enrolled in at least one learning group.

In the course view

From the course view, you can access all functions available to users. For detailed instructions on all functions, see the Functions for users section. However, in addition to their own profile, course owners can also edit and delete the profiles of all course participants.