Cobra Learning - Setting your account preferences
Use the Account Settings tool to customize and manage your personal preferences for things such as your online status, Cobra Learning's appearance, accessibility options, language and region, Discussions settings, and Email options.
Setting your account preferences
Access the Account Settings tool
- Click Account Settings from your personal menu on the minibar.
- Use the tabs across the top of the page to view and edit display options:
Account Settings
Settings on this tab are not related to a specific tool.
General Settings
Enables you to change the email address where you receive system notifications.
Pronouns
Enables you to set your preferred pronouns to display in your profile card, which appears on discussions, dropbox, and user progress. Check the box, then select the second radio button and type your pronouns in the box.
Font Settings
The basic system font type is Lato and you can select from four sizes: small, medium, large and huge.
Reading Content
While in places such as the discussion board you will automatically mark comments and replys as read just by scrolling down the page. Here you can check the box to not automatically do that. To then mark those comments as read there is a dropdown arrow next to the name of the person that has made the comment or reply and within that dropdown there is an option to "Mark Post as Read." If you use assistive technology, you may wish to disable this feature by checking the box.
Video Settings
Select Optimize video presentation for programmatically-driven assistive technologies if you use assistive techonology, 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 Cobra Learning 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
Click Revoke Access if you want 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.
Discussions
All Users Setting:
Display Settings Selecting this option will pin the Discussions List pane in the View Topic and View Thread pages.
Reply Settings Use this setting to automatically include the original post by default when composing a reply.
Subscription Settings Use this setting to automatically subscribe to new threads you create.
Additional Instructor Settings:
Display Settings Display deleted posts.
Default View The following default views are available:
- Grid View The Grid View resembles a traditional email reader where each post’s subject, author, and date appear in a list without the full text of the post. To read a post, click the subject; the full text displays in a separate area.
- Reading View The Reading View shows the full text of all posts in a single view. You read posts by selecting a thread. You can then scroll through the page without having to select posts from the thread and read them one at a time.
Org Unit Settings
Default Rating Scheme Allows you to set a ratings scheme for discussion posts, such as no rating, five star rating, up/down voting, or up only voting.
Available Condition Defaults
Before Start Dates Allows you to set how discussions display based on your start dates.
After End Dates Allows you to set how discussions display based on your end dates.
Grid View Settings
Default Threading Style The following threading styles are available:
- Threaded Group posts together with their replies.
- Unthreaded Sort posts by author, date, subject, Post ID, or average rating.
Display Settings The following display settings are available:
- Show the preview pane Use this setting to open posts in a preview pane at the bottom of the screen or in a pop-up window. Select this option to use the preview pane; clear it to use a pop-up window.
- Show the search bar Use the search bar to search for posts.
Post Fields to Display Use this setting to see ID numbers when viewing posts.
Character Limits Use this setting to display a limited number of characters of each post’s subject to save screen space. Select the check box and enter the maximum Subject Characters to Display.
Note: you can send email from within the Cobra Learning system, but there is no inbox and messages cannot be received.
Email Options
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.
Send a copy of each outgoing message to: [email address] will ensure that a copy of the message is also sent to your email address on file in the system.
'Reply to' Email Address If users reply to email you've sent from the Email tool, the reply-to address you specify appears in their "To:" field.
Email Signature Create an email signature to include at the bottom of your email messages.
Display Options
Show internal email addresses in the Address Book Internal addresses for your system contacts will appear in the Address Book.
Show external email addresses in the Address Book External addresses for your system contacts will appear in the Address Book.