Moodle

First time a new user visits Edit Profile, it requires Description as a required field

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  • Type: Bug Bug
  • Status: Closed Closed
  • Priority: Minor Minor
  • Resolution: Duplicate
  • Affects Version/s: 1.9
  • Fix Version/s: None
  • Component/s: Unknown
  • Labels:
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  • Affected Branches:
    MOODLE_19_STABLE

Description

First time a new user visits Edit Profile, it requires Description as a required field.

Is Description supposed to be a Required field?

It seems to me that this should be an optional field (or at least admin should be able to choose whether or not it is optional or required).

There should also be a notice at the top of the screen when required fields are missing data... I spent hours trying to figure out why it would not let me change the email in my regular user account, and then (finally) I noticed the box around the description field saying required. I have been using moodle for a long time and did not expect it to be asking me for a description!

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Antonello Lobianco added a comment -

Hello.. I gave my vote for this improvement as I noticed it is a problem for many of our users... we added many extra fields and asked users to update their profile, as in moodle 1.8 we can't ask them to fill the extra-fields on registration..
..but when users update their own profile, almost all forgot to place something in the "description" field and when they click "update profile" they do not see the field causing problem as it is too much on the top..

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Antonello Lobianco added a comment - Hello.. I gave my vote for this improvement as I noticed it is a problem for many of our users... we added many extra fields and asked users to update their profile, as in moodle 1.8 we can't ask them to fill the extra-fields on registration.. ..but when users update their own profile, almost all forgot to place something in the "description" field and when they click "update profile" they do not see the field causing problem as it is too much on the top..
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Tim Hunt added a comment -

Resolving as a duplicate, as noted by Kyle Schiefelbein.

By the way, the justification for description being a required field is probably Point 4 of http://docs.moodle.org/en/Pedagogy#Social_Constructionism_as_a_Referent.

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Tim Hunt added a comment - Resolving as a duplicate, as noted by Kyle Schiefelbein. By the way, the justification for description being a required field is probably Point 4 of http://docs.moodle.org/en/Pedagogy#Social_Constructionism_as_a_Referent.
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Tim Hunt added a comment -

Argh! wrong resolution. Sorry.

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Tim Hunt added a comment - Argh! wrong resolution. Sorry.

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