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How to upload, change or delete a photo

Any user can change their own photo. To change your photo, go to PROFILE > Profile and click on the Photo (camera) icon.

Teachers can change their students' photos, and administrators can change the photos of users they manage. When a teacher or administrator changes another user's photo, the photo's privacy setting is set to the most restrictive visibility setting (User). To change another user's photo, go to that user's profile (for example by clicking on the user's photo).

A form for uploading or deleting the photo will appear.

• To upload a photo, click on Browse button. You can upload a file with an image in JPEG format. The image must contain at least one face in vertical and frontal position, and the background must be white or very light.
  • SWAD will try to detect all the faces in frontal and vertical position present in the image by means of the software fotomaton.
  • Correctly detected faces with a sufficiently clear background will be surrounded by a green circle.
  • The faces detected in correct position but with a background too dark will be surrounded by a red circle.
  • If your face is one of the faces surrounded by a green circle, click inside the circle to select that face. The image will be processed by trimming your face and improving contrast, saturation and white balance.
  • If SWAD has not surrounded your face in green, try sending another photo.
• To delete the photo, click on the Remove icon (red cross) in the upper left corner.
  • You will be asked for confirmation.

Privacy of your own photo

To change the privacy of your photo, go to one of these options:

• PROFILE > Record > Upload/Change photo > Privacy
• PROFILE > Preferences > Privacy

You can select one of the following privacy options:

• User: Visible by you and your teachers / your students
• Course: Visible by users with whom you share courses
• System: Visible by any logged user (default)
• World: Visible by everyone