Note
Your dashboard is available only from the LMS. If you are currently working in Studio, view the live version of your course to access your dashboard.
You can access course, account, or profile information from any page on the website, whether you are in a course or browsing the course catalog. Select the dropdown menu icon next to your username, and then choose one of the following menu options.
Your dashboard lists all of the courses that you are enrolled in. When you create an account or enroll in a course, you automatically go to your dashboard. You can also access your dashboard by selecting the dropdown menu icon next to your username at the top of any page.
You can find information about your courses and change course-specific email subscription settings on your dashboard. For more information, see Updating Course-Specific Settings.
On your dashboard, you can share the courses you are enrolled in on social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
This feature is available only if it has been enabled by your course provider.
Your personal profile allows you to optionally share information about yourself with other participants in the courses that you take. If you choose to add profile information, course teams and other learners in your courses can view the information that you share.
You can share either a limited profile or a full profile.
Note
If you are under 13 years of age, your limited profile only includes your username. You cannot add a profile picture.
A limited profile shares only your username. You can also add a profile picture, if you are over 13 years of age.
A full profile includes the following details.
A limited profile includes only your username and, optionally, an image.
Note
If you are under 13 years of age, your limited profile only includes your username. You cannot add a profile picture.
To add or update a limited profile, follow these steps.
At the top of any page, select Dashboard from the dropdown menu icon next to your username, then select the Profile tab.
In the header area of your profile page, for Profile Visibility, select Limited Profile.
(optional) Add an image that you want to associate with your username. Your image must be a .gif, .jpg, or .png file. The image must be between 100 bytes and 1 MB in size. If you do not add an image, the placeholder image appears as your profile image.
Move your cursor over the placeholder image, and click Upload an image.
In the file navigation window, select the image file that you want to use as your profile image, and then click Open.
To change or remove your profile image, move your cursor over your image, and then select either Change image or Remove. When you remove your profile image, the placeholder image appears as your profile image.
The site saves your changes automatically.
Note
You must specify your year of birth on the Account Settings page before you can share a full profile. If you are under 13 years of age, you can share only a limited profile.
If you create a full profile, you share the following information in addition to your username and profile image.
To add or update your profile, follow these steps.
At the top of any page, select Dashboard from the dropdown menu icon next to your username, then select the Profile tab.
In the header area of your profile page, for Profile Visibility, select Full Profile.
(optional) Add a profile image.
Your image must be a .gif, .jpg, or .png file that is less than 1 MB in size. If you do not add an image, the placeholder image appears as your profile image.
To change or remove your profile image, move your cursor over your image, and then select either Change image or Remove. When you remove your profile image, the placeholder image appears as your profile image.
On your profile page, move your cursor over the information that you want to change.
Click inside the field to choose an option from the list, or enter text.
The site saves your changes automatically.
Note
If you change your profile type from Full Profile to Limited Profile, your full name, location, language, and descriptive paragraph are no longer visible on your profile page. However, this information is saved, and becomes visible again to other learners and course teams if you change your profile back to Full Profile.
If you select the Full Profile option, you can add social media icons on your profile that link to your personal Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn account pages.
To add links to your social media accounts to your profile, follow these steps.
At the top of any page, select Account from the dropdown menu icon next to your username.
On the Account Settings page, under Social Media Links, enter either your username or the URL to the profile page for each social media account that you want to add to your profile.
For example, if your Facebook username is edx
, you can enter either
edx
or https://www.facebook.com/edx
.
For LinkedIn, note that your username might include numbers. For example,
if the URL of your LinkedIn profile page is https://www.linkedin.com/in
/firstname-lastname-123456/
, your LinkedIn username is firstname-
lastname-123456
.
The site saves your changes when you click outside the text field.
When you view your profile, icons for the social media icons that you added links for appear below your username. Other learners or course team members can click those icons to visit your social media account page.
You can view other learners’ profiles through their posts, responses, or comments in course discussions.
On the Discussion page, select the username of any learner in a post, a response, or a comment.
A page that displays the discussion activity only for the selected learner opens.
On the learner’s Discussion page, select their linked username.
The learner’s account profile page opens.
From the dashboard, access the courses that you are enrolled in and change course-specific settings. You can also unenroll from a course from the dashboard.
To subscribe or unsubscribe to emails from a course, follow these steps.
On your dashboard, locate the course.
Select the course settings icon. The course settings icon resembles a gear and appears next to View Course or View Archived Course.
Select Email Settings.
Select or clear the Receive course emails check box, and then select Save Settings.
Note
If you clear this check box, you will not receive any of the email messages that course teams send to communicate with enrolled learners in the course.