Are you lost?

[Sharmina]

not lost…but have a question: want to change my email (from the initial email submitted for registration); have indicated the preferred email in my profile, but all emails through jiscmail are still coming into the initial email I provided…can you help?

[Martin Hawksey]

Hi Sharmina – JISCMail is handled separately. If you visit https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=OCTEL-PUBLIC&A=1 you should be able to unsubscribe one email address and subscribe on another.

If you are still having problems let us know

Martin

[Sharmina]

Thanks Martin. I managed to successfully unsubscribe my initial email from Jiscmail, but it won’t accept my new email for OCTEL.

Also, all official correspondence (newsletters, etc.) from OCTEL still appear in my initial email address – even tho I’ve changed in on the profile…

[JaneBritton]

I am completely lost, and like Sharmina trying to unsubscribe from Jiscmail.  How can I update my profile?  I logged on and didn’t seem to be able to do anything.  Normally edit profile is the first option but couldn’t figure out how to do mine (sorry!).  Would welcome some guides – thanks!

[Sharmina]

I’ve managed to unsubscribe from Jiscmail, but can’t subscribe using a different email address!

Jane, you’ll have to create a password first – by clicking on the link above provided by Martin.  Once this has been confirmed by you (by way of clicking in a link that’ll appear in your inbox) – you can then sign in and unsubscribe.  Hope this helps.

[Sharmina]

oh, to answer your other question Jane, if you want to edit your profile, the easiest way to do this is by clicking on your name in this forum – that’ll take you to your profile page and there are several options under where your pic should be – the last one says Edit.

[JaneBritton]

Thanks Sharmina – have made it as far as the password.  Is it me or is this very very clunky?  I’d like to add my photo but I’m being forced to use some Gravatar thing rather than just upload a photo which any normal site will let you do.

Yet to be impressed!

Thanks for your help!

[Sharmina]

I guess like on any site, the initial set-up is a bit tedious.  You can watch Martin explain the log-in and profile editing process (including having to use Gravatar to upload a photo) here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9_A3nlYA3M

[Sharmina]

ok my stuff is all sorted thanks to help from Anna Davidge.  Martin, thanks for your help, as well!

Jane – hope you were successful in editing your profile.

[Anonymous]

Could you please flag up really clearly the current activities we are supposed to do somewhere on the website. I cannot find the email/link after wasting my small amount of free time tidying up the appalling mess octel made of my email inbox. V unlikely to complete this course as a result. Thanks.

[ejarmstrong]

I have added my introduction to my WordPress Blog:

Introdution for #ocTEL

but I can’t see any sign of it being picked up by the Course Reader?

[Martin Hawksey]

In your profile go to the edit page and you’ll see some fields for blog url and a button to get your rss feed

[ejarmstrong]

Thanks! Emily

[jrconlon95]

Hello

Bit lost! Have joined the Tutors in HE group.  Nice introductions but prompted to contact you after reading Roger’s post today about there not being any discussions beyond the intros.  We need some tips to get the forum going please. Is it possible to restructure it?  Newest first? Break into sections or threads? I would need instructions as obviously a techno-muppet but v good at following instructions!

[David Jennings]

Thank you for this, Jo, and sorry for the slow reply. We have looked into the options for restructuring the forums. It is possible to switch it so that the newest post comes first, and it’s possibly to have more contributions per page. It’s not possible automatically to break contributions into threads on separate pages (we just have the subtle threading in the way the contributions are presented within the page).

I think the issue you experienced was acute last week when there was one very active forum, with lots of contributions per topic. This week, there are fewer contributions in total, and they are distributed more evenly over a number of topics (participants now seem to be more used to creating new topics, which aids navigation). Thus none of the topics actually extend over more than one page. Hopefully that means that one of the problems that was confusing you is no longer occurring.

We think it might add to the confusion to switch the order of posts suddenly, so that, instead of reading top to bottom, you read bottom to top.

So after some consideration, we’ve decided to leave things as they are for now, but keeping an eye on the issue. Happy to discuss this further if that would be helpful.

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