Set profile and account preferences in myCourses
Setting up your Profile allows you to upload an image that will appear beside your name in the Discussions tool. You can also enter information such as your hometown, website, and social networking site addresses.
Students can view your profile by hovering their mouse over your photo and then clicking your name in Discussions.
Instructors and students can add and change their preferred pronouns at any time. When enabled, the pronouns will appear to others in areas such as your profile card or Classlist in myCourses
Your profile
Customize your photo and other settings
Click your name on the top toolbar of myCourses and select Profile.
Click Change picture.
Drag and drop a photo from your computer into the Upload box.
Click Done.
(Optional) Enter your Hometown, Home page address, and/or Social networks (the URLs of your profile pages on social media).
Click Save and close.
Account preferences
The Account settings page presents a set of three tabs, Account settings, discussions, and e-mail, where you can apply your personal settings to your myCourses learning environment. To access the settings, click your name on the top toolbar of myCourses and select Account settings.
Account settings
Pronouns: You can allow others to see your pronouns in your profile card.
Font settings: Select your preferred font face and text size.
Reading content: Some tools automatically mark content as “read” as you scroll it into view. If you use an assistive technology, such as a screen reader, you can disable this feature by checking the box labeled “Do not mark items as read as the page scrolls.”
Video settings: This setting ensures assistive technologies can detect videos.
Locale & language: You can change the default language, clock, first day of the week, date, time, and format for displaying numbers and percentages. However, some courses may override your selections.
Time zone: Select your preferred time zone, which shows you all of your times with dates in that time zone.
Signing in: Sets your online status to appear online or offline.
Application settings: Applications can access the system on your behalf if you are authenticated.
ID key authorization: This is an account management service used for Binder and Assignment grader secure access.
Discussions
You can change the following default settings for the Discussions tool:
Personal settings: allows you to change the default view, display settings and reply settings.
Org unit settings: allows you to set a default grading scheme for new discussion topics.
Grid view settings: allows you to change the default threading style, display settings, post fields to display and add character limits on the subject to display in the post.
See Change discussion settings in myCourses for more information.
You can enter a personalized Email signature that will be added to the bottom of all your outgoing messages. You can also change the following default e-mail settings:
Send a copy of each outgoing message to your McGill e-mail address.
(Recommended) Show external e-mail addresses in the Address book.
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