How to Post Your Profile and Your Introduction

Soon after you have logged in for the first time, please fill in your Profile, as explained below. If you have a digital photo, please also post it to your profile. If you post your photo to your profile, your face will appear by your assignment entries. It will make your postings more personal and is very simple to do.

How to Post Your Profile

You only have to do this once. All you need is a digital photo file already filed somewhere on your own computer.

Here's how you can add information to your profile and post your photo:

1. In the top right corner of the webpage you find your "name". Click on your name and this will reveal a sub menu of options.

2. Click on "Profile", then "Edit Profile" and this will take you to a page where you can enter your personal information and set your communications options.

3. Please copy and paste your personal introduction into the description box in the "General" category. We are also all posting our personal introduction into the "Welcome Week Discussion Forum" so that it is easy to get to know each other this week.

4. Halfway down the new page, there is a category that says “User picture”. Click on the "Add icon" next to New picture.

5. A small window opens. Click on "upload a file" and then "browse" to look in your own computer files to find your photo file. Click on the file you want to use, highlight it, then click on " Open". Finally click on "Upload this file".

6. At the bottom of the page, click "Update profile". If it returns to ask you to fill in Description, type in anything you like - 'student' will do! Then again click Update Profile. That's it! When you next go to the student responses, your photo should appear by your own entries.

Take a "Walk into the Classroom"

After you have posted your profile, take a "walk into the classroom" and see who your classmates are. To enter the classroom, click on the Participants link in the left hand menu of the screen. The more people who have posted their profiles, the more fun this will be! So please be sure to create your profile soon, and add a photo if you can. Visit the classroom right after you post your profile so you can check that your profile is shown the way you want it to be. Then come back to this later in the week when hopefully everyone will have updated their profile so you can meet the other participants.