Optional profiles
Similar to additional user profile fields in core Moodle, IOMAD allows for administrators to set up custom profile fields on a per-tenant basis.
- Go to the IOMAD dashboard.
- Choose the company you'd like to edit from the Select a company dropdown (or use the company selector at the top right of the page).
- Click on the Companies tab.
- Select Optional profiles.
To create a new profile field, select the desired field type from the Create a new profile field dropdown menu. The types of field available here are identical to those in core Moodle:
- Checkbox
- Date/Time
- Drop-down menu
- Social
- Text area
- Text input
Common settings
- Shortname
- Required. Short code or other identifier for the profile field. This must be unique, and can only contain alphanumeric upper- or lower-case characters (no underscores). Shortnames are case insensitive, so a field named myfield and one named MyField do not pass requirements for uniqueness and wouldn't be allowed.
- Name
- Required. Full name of the field.
- Description of the field
- Short summary describing what the field contains.
- Is this field required?
- Set this to Yes to make the field compulsory for new users. Existing users will be prompted to complete and submit the field when they next log in.
- Is this field locked?
- If Yes, the value entered by the user can't then be edited by the user afterwards.
- Should the data be unique?
- If Yes, data is validated to ensure that the field is unique tenant-wide (e.g. for institutional ID numbers and so on).
- Display on signup page?
- If Yes and self-registration is enabled, users who self-signup will see the field on the registration form.
- Who is this field visible to?
- Can be set to Visible to everyone (default), Visible to user, or Not visible.
- Visible to everyone: All users can view the contents of this field for any other user.
- Visible to user: The user can only view the contents of their own instance of the field, but can't view that of others. Still visible to site administrators.
- Not visible: Can only be viewed by a site administrator.