Account Settings
What are Account Settings?
Account Settings allow you to customize and manage your personal CourseLink preferences such as your online status, CourseLink’s appearance, accessibility options, language and region, Discussions settings, and Email options.
Accessing your Account Settings
You can access your Account Settings by following the steps below:
Click your name from the top-right of the CourseLink minibar
Select Account Settings from the menu
Use the tabs across the top of the page to view and edit options for your Account Settings, Discussions, and Email
Account Settings Options
Font Settings
Adjusting the font face and font size changes how the default font and size of text displays for the user. It does not affect images, documents, and other objects such as math equations.
Dialog Setting
The Show secondary window as options enable you to set secondary windows as pop-ups instead of dialog boxes. This setting helps screen readers and other assistive technologies separate the content of the secondary window from the main window. If you are using assistive technology such as a screen reader, we strongly recommend showing secondary windows as pop-ups.
HTML Editor Settings
Under this tab you can turn off the rich text editor. The HTML Editor has many additional rich text features that might be difficult to navigate with assistive technology. This option simplifies pages that have text fields, while still allowing you to include HTML content.
Video Settings
Select Optimize video presentation for programmatically-driven assistive technologies if you use assistive technology, such as a screen reader, to navigate the web. This option ensures that your assistive technology can detect embedded videos; it does not affect the accessibility of specific video players.
Locale & Language
Preferred Locale and Language:
Sets which locale to use for screen orientation, text, and graphics in the system. The options in the drop-down list correspond to the locale options available at your institution. Administrative staff and course designers can override your preferences for specific pages and courses.
Clock:
Sets whether time displays in 24-hour or 12-hour clock format.
First Day of the Week:
Sets which day appears first in your calendar.
Date:
Sets the display format of dates in the system.
Number Format:
Sets the display format of numbers in the system.
Percentage Format:
Sets the display format of percentages in the system.
Time Zone
Sets all dates that include times in CourseLink to correspond with the time zone you specify.
Signing In
Online Status sets whether you appear offline or online to other users when you are logged into the system.
Application Settings
Some applications (integrations) registered to your account can access the CourseLink LMS on your behalf. These setting allow you to manage and revoke that access.
For applications using OAuth 2.0, click the Manage applications registered with OAuth 2.0 link to view and control access from those applications.
For applications using ID Key Authorization, click the Revoke Access button to force all your applications or devices to renew their authentication. This ensures that others cannot, for example, access your grades or send emails as you if you lose a mobile device or discover that a linked application is compromised.
Account Settings - Discussions
Personal Settings
These settings will affect the default options for your account on CourseLink when interacting with the Discussions tool.
Display Settings
Always show the Discussions List pane
Selecting this option will pin the Discussions List pane in the View Topic and View Thread pages.
Display deleted posts
Selecting this option displays deleted posts when browsing topics. Note that the student role can only see their own deleted posts. An instructor role can see both their students’ deleted posts and their own deleted posts.
Both options are enabled by default.
Reply Settings
Include original post in reply
Selecting this option includes the original post by default when composing a reply.
This option is enabled by default.
Subscription Settings
When creating a new thread, subscribe to the thread by default
You will receive notifications when users reply to your thread based on your notification settings
This option is enabled by default.
Org Unit Settings
Default Rating Scheme
The option selected will automatically display in the Rate Posts drop-down list on the New Topic page and will automatically apply to imported course components. This setting only applies to users with roles that allow them to create new discussions topics (Instructors, TAs and Administrators).
Options include:
No Ratings
Five Star Rating Scheme
Up Vote/Down Vote Rating Scheme
Up Vote Only Rating Scheme
The default option is set to No Ratings. Any of these options may be selected at the time of creating a new discussion topic, regardless of which default setting is selected.
Account Settings - Email
Email Options
Send a copy of each outgoing message to [specified email address]
Sends a copy of all the emails you send to a specified address. Click the Change email address link to specify the address to which you want to send copies. Changing this address will change your external address for all mail sent from the Desire2Learn application.
Save a copy of each outgoing message to the Sent Mail folder
Saves a copy of your sent messages to a folder for convenient record-keeping.
display Options
Show external email addresses in the Address Book
External addresses for your system contacts will appear in the Address Book.
Account Setting - Set and view user pronouns
Users can now set their pronouns through Account Settings.
Figure: The area under Account Settings, where you can set your pronouns.
Figure: A user profile card with the pronouns displayed.
