What is my Profile?

## What is my Sakai Profile?

### What it does

When you first log into Sakai, you begin in your Profile, which is essentially your Sakai home page. It contains your basic contact information and also serves as your entry point into your courses. Your Profile also contains resources and tools that are generally useful but not associated with a particular course or academic subject.

### Key concepts

Contact information: Your Profile initially displays your first and last names. All other details are optional. If you choose to include certain kinds of "protected" information, such as a picture URL (GIF or JPEG), an email address, home page URL, or phone number, you can specify who can see them: course authors only, students in your class, or guest visitors to Sakai.

Course listings: Ordinarily, your Profile displays your courses for the current semester. You can also customize this display to include courses from past semesters. (Your courses are those in which you are registered as a student, listed with your department as faculty of record, or to which you have been added manually by the faculty of record or by another course author.)

File Manager: The File Manager is probably the most important of the tools available from the Profile. It is a place where you can upload and store files, including essays, articles, images, sound files, presentations, and other documents. Ordinarily, files that you transfer to the File Manager are publicly accessible from the Web. If you prefer to keep some files private, you can move them to a private folder.

General tools: The resources provided under "My Tools" also include a notebook where you can jot down general comments or other items, a bookmarks page for saving your favorite Web links, a calendar displaying scheduled items for your courses, and links to a variety of university resources such as Insite and campus maps. If you are a course author, you can also access Faculty Tools from your Profile.

### Things to consider

- Your calendar contains every dated item from any of your courses, as well as any personal material you choose to add.
- Since anything you transfer to the File Manager is publicly accessible from the Web unless you put it in a private folder, the File Manager can function as personal Web space as well as extra file storage.