Your profile and what others see

Where to find it

In the sidebar, click My profile (the same item is in the account menu, under your photo in the top right corner). It is one screen with sections: basic details, photo, links, skills, visibility in the academy and public visibility. You save everything with one Save changes button.

If you close the tab or refresh the page before saving, the browser will ask whether you really want to leave.

What other academy members see

They see: your name, your photo or initials, headline, bio, job title, location, links and skills, if you fill them in. They also see your role, the date you joined, when you were last active, and your points and badges.

They don't see: your email address, purchase history, quiz scores or which courses you are watching.

The trainer running the academy sees more than other learners: your progress in courses and your enrolments. That is needed so they can help when someone gets stuck.

Your name: one thing worth knowing

The "Display name" field on your profile is what goes on your certificate. The name is stored separately in each academy you belong to.

If you leave part of your email address in this field, that is what the certificate will say. The name is written into the certificate when it is issued and doesn't change afterwards. It's much simpler to fill it in early.

Photo

Optional. Without one, your initials are shown. Conversations in the community flow more easily with a face than with a letter, but nobody will make you add one.

Paste a link to a photo that is already online into the Photo link field, for example from LinkedIn. It has to start with https://. A square one looks best. The preview next to the field shows it straight away, and after saving the photo appears in the academy and on your public profile.

If the preview still shows your initials, the link doesn't lead straight to the image. Open the photo in a new tab and copy the address of the image itself.

Who can see your profile

• In the Visibility in the academy section there is a "Profile visible to other members" switch. It covers this academy's member directory and is on by default. The academy's admins can always see you.
• In the Public visibility section there are two switches: "Show my profile publicly" and "Show me in the people directory". Both are off by default.

Public profile outside the academy

Your public profile is your card at cohorta.pl/profil/your-address, shared by all the academies you belong to. You can send the link to people or add it to your CV.

• Turn on Show my profile publicly and fill in Profile address (lowercase letters, digits and hyphens). If the address is taken, you will see it under the field.
• The public profile shows the details you enter above: name, headline, bio, photo, location, links and skills. Your job title stays in the academy only.
• Show me in the people directory decides whether people can find you in the Cohorta people directory. Turn it off if you only want the link.

After saving, the section shows Your link. With the switch off, only you can see your public profile, and nothing changes in the academy.

Changing your email address

Your address is also your login, and your purchases are tied to it, so changing it is more serious than it looks. Write to support@cohorta.pl from both addresses, the old and the new one, so we can be sure both belong to you.

I changed something but the old details still show

Refresh the page. Some views keep data in the browser's memory for a moment. If the old details are still there after refreshing, log out and log in again.

I want to delete my account

Write to support@cohorta.pl from the address the account uses.

Before you do, remember that deleting your account means losing access to every course you bought, including paid ones, and to the certificates issued to you, whose verification pages will stop working. It can't be undone.

When to write to us

• You want to change your account's email address.
• You want to delete your account.
• The profile form returns an error when you save.