Like social-media accounts, your Higher Logic account includes a profile where you can perform a number of actions, such as:

• view your profile information,
• update your profile picture, and
• configure privacy settings and email preferences.

Access your profile

To access your profile, click your user portal at the top-right, followed by Profile.

Profile options

Your Profile has a tabbed menu from which you can access the various aspects, features, and activities for your account.

• My Profile
• My Connections
• My Contributions
• My Account
• My Inbox

These pages have self-management options so that you can customize your preferences to make your community experience unique to you.

NOTE: An additional tab, Admin, is available only to Super Admins. See Administrative Profile Details & Actions to learn more.

Let's look at each of these tabs and their options in more detail.

My Profile

This is your primary Profile page. Here, you set what personal information you want shared with community members. Profiles are customizable; so, what you see may be different, but typically you can:

• Upload a profile picture
• Provide your contact details, including your social networks
• Add a bio
• List your education history
• Provide your job history

NOTE: There might be additional sections for you to fill out because Admins can create custom demographics for their site's user profiles. These will be located at the bottom of the page.

See Profile Types Overview to learn more.

My Connections

The Connections pages are dedicated to your various community-based connections; that is, your connections to other users, content, and communities.

• Contacts - This page lists the users you've connected with via invitations; they've accepted your invitation or you've accepted theirs. The People You May Know section makes it easy to visit the profiles of, and connect with, other members.
• Networks - This page lists linked high-level categories (such as City and Job Title) that are applicable to you, and in which you are automatically included. You can click a Members-count button to view and connect with others in the network.
• Communities - This page lists the communities that you belong to. Click a community name to jump to that community.
• Following - This page lists all of the content across your entire community that you've followed. Click the dropdown to refine the list to a specific type of user-created content; click a title to jump to that content.

See View Your Connections to learn more.

My Contributions

The Contributions pages are dedicated to your community-based contributions; that is, YOUR: original content, engagement with other users' content, and participation in community activities (e.g., events, learning).

• My Summary - This "overview" page provides a breakdown of your achievements and points earned, along with a donut chart-representation of all the content you've contributed, color-coded by type. Click the chart and its index to display a listing of the associated content right on the page.
• My Achievements - Lists the Badges and Ribbons that you've earned. Essentially, this is a "trophy case" for those who engage in gamification. It displays to others who visit your profile, and encourages additional engagement by also showing Badges and Ribbons you've not yet earned.
• My List of Contributions - Shows all of your contributed content in a single, scrollable list. Click the dropdown to refine the list by status; click a title to jump to that content.

See View Your Contributions to learn more.

My Account

The Account pages are dedicated to your customizable, self-managed community settings; that is, you can set: the visibility of your personal information, which email messages you want sent to you, RSS feed subscriptions, and how your signature displays.

• Privacy Settings - While Admins set the default privacy settings for your profile information, you can update them to control what personal information is visible to users viewing your profile.
• Email Preferences - You can set an additional email address where you'd like to receive communications from across your site. You can also control which email messages you want to receive at this address by toggling the various email categories to YES or NO.

NOTE: You will always receive these messages in your account profile inbox, regardless of these settings. Opting-out controls only whether a category's associated messages are sent to your additional email address.

• RSS Feeds - You can manage your RSS feed subscriptions for community content (e.g., Discussions, Libraries) and specify which Blogs you're interested in.
• Community Notifications - You can manage your community subscriptions, establish notification overrides, and create Consolidated Digests.
• Discussion Signature - You can use the Available Variables to customize the default Discussion signature that is added to the bottom of your Discussion posts.
• Disable My Account (not shown in image) - Click this (and indicate why and then confirm) if you truly want to disable your account in the community. This action is irreversible.

See Manage Your Profile Preferences to learn more.

My Inbox

The Inbox page is dedicated to your community-based communications; that is, the email messages that you have received and sent, and the "invitation-to-connect" messages that you have received and sent. These messages are a combination of user/member messages and system- and Admin-generated messages and notifications.

Inbox features

There are several aspects to the Inbox page. The numbers below refer to those in the image.

1. Your inbox has four categories that segment your messages to simplify finding the different types. The Inbox tab houses all inbound messages, including contact requests and community invitations.
2. Use the search to quickly locate messages by, for example, type, sender, or subject. This is useful if you have a lot of messages in your inbox.
3. Use this button and the dropdown options to mark messages as read or unread and to delete selected messages. Check All to select all messages and then mark or delete them, as preferred.
4. Click Compose to create and send a message to a community user. This message-send feature is limited to one recipient per message AND is community "internal" (i.e., you cannot send a message to an external, non-community address).

See Access Your Inbox to learn more.