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Your profile

Setting up your Profile allows you to upload an image that will appear beside your name in Discussions. You can also enter information such as your Hometown, website, and social networking site addresses that will appear in your profile.

Other students can view your profile by hovering their mouse over your photo and clicking your name in Discussions.

How to customize your photo and other settings

1. Click your name on the top toolbar and select Profile.

   

2. Click Change Picture.
3. Drag and drop a photo from your computer onto the Upload box.
4. Click Done.
5. (Optional) Enter your Hometown, home page address, and Social Networks (the URLs of your profile pages on social media).
6. Click Save and Close.

   

Account preferences

The Account Settings page presents a set of three tabs where you can apply your own settings to your myCourses learning environment:

• Account Settings
• Discussions
• Email

To access it, click your name on the top toolbar and select Account Settings.

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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 may wish to 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, the 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 account management service is used for secure access for Binder and Assignment Grader.

  

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Discussion Settings

You can change the following default settings for the Discussions tool:

• Personal Settings: You can change the default view, display settings, and reply settings.
• Org Unit Settings: You can set a default grading scheme for new discussion topics.
• Grid View Settings: You can change the default threading style, display settings, post fields to display, and add character limits on the subject to display in the post.

  

Note: Each course also has separate discussion settings within the Discussions tool. See Changing discussion settings in myCourses for details on these settings.

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Email Settings:

You can enter a personalized Email Signature that will be added to the bottom of all your outgoing messages. You can also put a check on the default e-mail setting:

• Send a copy of each outgoing message to your McGill email address
• Show external e-mail addresses in the Address Book (Recommended)