There is no setting that turns this setting on or off, so either you just aren't seeing it, or there is something wrong with your installation.
To check that you're just missing it, it should appear as a separate fieldset immediately following the text input field for user description.
If that is where you have been looking, then you may want to post information about your specific install (e.g. Moodle version, database type, server setup, etc.). You may also want to tell us if you are experiencing any other problems that are perhaps related.
Good luck.
Thanks big help
A small function but I had to get working quick
Many thanks
Yeah I found the setting, thank god....just in the nick of time
Many thanks
Mike
Hi Marcus
Not knowing my full situation at the time, I can fully understand why you would make that comment, however, many thanks for making the effort to reply, even though you have not offered a solution and have wasted my time not to mention clogging up the forum with pointless comments.
Perhaps my post is not urgent to you but then your post isn't helpful to me unlike a number of others that I have received who are happy to pass on knowledge in the spirit of collaboration through these forums and not critic/ question users making them feel awkward and uncomfortable to the point that they no longer wish to use the forum in the future.
I'm sure being the relative newbie to Moodle that I am, I will have a number of other emergencies in the future as I have been thrust into the role of admin, therefore please feel free not to reply to any of my queries you feel are beneath you.
On a more positive note perhaps you could set up an elite site for non new users and avoid such frustration in the future
Kind regards
Mike
Mike, with respect I think you are being a wee bit unfair with your response to Marcus. Marcus (along with many many other members) has long provided this online support community with pearls of his wisdom and I for one remain truly indebted to him for the help that he has given me with my problems in the past - he *IS* an EXCEEDINGLY helpful man. Perhaps what he was trying to draw attention to was that your post was merely titled 'urgent' and that up til now this community has tended to have more explicit subject headings in order that help can be more forthcoming. After all if everyone (remembering the many thousands of installations there are around the world) were to call their messages 'urgent' we'd get nowhere.
One of the GREAT boons of Moodle is the tremendous support that comes from this network and I appluad the likes of Marcus for their continual, voluntary and usually effusive support when we in difficulty are 1. EXPLICIT about our issues and 2. show GRATITITUDE/APPRECIATION in advance of any help we may get. People who follow these 2 'steps' are more inclined to be helped on future occasions.
Thank you for your input, in future I will be explicit and I will continue to show my GRATITITUDE/APPRECIATION (in advance of, during and on positive outcome of support) to those who are actually helpful.
Many thanks
Mike
As you can see from some of the other comments the use of the word Urgent can be something of a hot button for folks ready and waiting to respond to questions. It can come accross as an attempt to prioritise one post above others in a medium which by its very nature is not urgent. Even "urgent my pants are on fire and all my records have vanished" is problematic as a web forum lacks the real time response capabilities to extinguish the pants (though it can sometimes help with missing records).
Of course the above paragraph is entirely irrelevent to your post as my response at worst should have just been a gentle suggestion to be careful with the use of the word "urgent" (and even better, if I had included some kind of help with your problem).
Please keep posting, we really are quite friendly here and we don't want any feeling of a need to be "in" or "elite". In fact we rather like a well described problem as we can show off our knowledge. And if you ever get a chance to go to a Moodle conference take it up because it is magic when you get to put a face to the names.
Marcus
Oh, oh, oh, oh. That would have been dreadful. And it made me laugh at the same time (even while wincing in sympathy for the imaginary poster). I felt that way the first time I turned editing on and everything vanished. . . Fortunately, we got that sorted!
I thought you had a pair of asbestos pants?
atw
Ummmmm...Drew.....thanks for your post but do you actually have help to offer Mike?
With respect of course.
No, you merely added a little bit about protocol. No "technical" solution was offered. Mike had no use from your comment.
Sighs, shakes head and quite frankly laughs at Drew.
And I was in a hurry, at work (I should have actually been working at what they pay me for) and was frustrated frustrated partly because of a lack of a detailed description of the problem, my guts said "please help me to help you". However, there is a place for "meta commentary". How to ask a question in such a way to optimise your chance of getting a result is a fantastically inportant idea. Drew put some of this in to a wider perspective.
We could take the view that these forums are just for exchanging technical solid fact and they would be the duller for it. On the other hand we don't want to be a place like the playground where there are frequently shouts of "fight, fight, fight" and people are worried to make a post in case they get pounced on by smarty pants know it alls or people making dead pan droll comments about the importance of their question. That would be a really, really bad thing. My favorite site has the slogan "a friendly place for greenhorns" which is not a bad motto.
But I'll re-iterate, my original reply was not appropriate.
I think MIke might have have had a long term use from Drews comment beyond moodle or these forums.
Wow...first you know what is urgent and not urgent for him and now you know what kind of "life lessons" he learns from these forums...you're good 
.
I think the real lesson, at least from my perspective, is this....
But I'll re-iterate, my original reply was not appropriate.
Steve
Points were made, shots over the bow were taken and some folks still do not want to let go.
For those of us who are subscribed to this site as a whole, we get enough emails coming at us. It takes time to sift through them for valuable nuggets of information and to lend support were we can.
Please let's stop this nonsense.
RC
Thanks Steve, I have often been complemented on my empathy and insight in the past. Your comment is appreciated.
Thank you Marcus, I was annoyed at your initial response and I am glad you explained your actions.
I decided to help Mike out and defend him as I can see why diferent situations may be urgent for different people at different times. It is easy to want a quick response when about to present at a conference and you realise something is wrong. The last thing you want is a quick response, get excited and check and it is a beratement, then another response and it is someone like Drew merely reiterating what has been said. I think Urgent in "urgent" circumstances gets a quick reply from this Extremely useful forum when you are up to your neck in it then i think it works well.
I would add that I have met and worked with Mike on a number of occasions - most recently in Lisbon where we are working on a European project where we jointly decided to use Moodle as the platform to deliver the E-learning project.
It is best not to assume a basic question is from a newbie - both Myself and Mike are successful installers in Wales and throughout Europe with a number of sucessful projects under our belts and in Wales have achieved Grade 1 inspection results from Estyn.
We have a lot to offer these forums but get put off by what can be accurately described by Steve Hyndman as the Elite groups who feel they are Gods amongst us. Help in moodle goes beyond installing and running it - quite often the probelm will be network or server related.
Thanks for the discussion thus far......
Drew you need not reply as i have not attacked anyone....
I will now revert to helping the newbies on this foum who need accurate and concise help.
Seems to me there are fewer folks from 2003 and 2004 in these forums now
.That these forums have become places where phrases like "Cult" and "Elite groups who feel they are Gods amongst us" are used to describe people who are trying to fit helping others for free into their lives (and explain the time it takes to their wives/husbands, children, and bosses) is perhaps part of the reason.
Calling your posts "URGENT!!!" "PLEASEEEE HELP!!!!!" "DESPERATELY NEED HELP!!!!!" "MOODLE SUCKS!!!!!!" (i don't say you wrote all of these
- but you are guilty of some "A simple question.... but a huge help" etc ) is rude and not helpful at all for other users. I would like to point you that many users, experienced, but newbies too, find this names of posts wrong and just ignore it. I am planning to do the same, but i slip sometimes
.So i think nothing so awful happened, just think of other users next time too and label your post by proper name to help find the solution for others too.
(But sometimes i am questioning myself, if some people tried search function before they cry for help sometimes, so many threads about maximum upload size for example, sometimes on one page, just few posts apart...i just don't like this and not get it either. But i think moodle community is very helpful and polite, i don't see many cases of UTFG reply here
)PK
Mike...welcome to the forums .
You made a "newbie mistake" by not recognizing that this is not really a community for many...it's a cult. Cult members are allowed to take cheap shots at you, but you are not allowed respond "in-kind"...if you do, other cult members will attack....some do it by typing in a reply...others do it by rating those replies .
Don't let the disciples get you down and don't worry about the "veiled" threats that you will not be helped if you don't show proper homage to the disciples...there are always people who will help.
Steve
Cheers mate..... I think your right.
Mike
The person who wrote the Urgent message could have smiled about it and explained why it was urgent. But he chose to get offended, and spent a considerable amount of his precious time explaining why the innocuous remark was offensive to him.
Then others read these messages and thought they needed to take sides. They spent some of their precious time defending either side.
And then, what always happens in these situations happened again.
A troll came along.
Frankly, learn to smile and get on with your job
PS: I took the time to write this in order to, perhaps, encourage forum participants to better use their time in the future.
Nicolas - consider you time well spent.......
However i am still annoyed at the rudeness of Marcus........
...and the disciples continue to chime in with their blind wisdom
I am glad to see that at least one other person around here sees where the problem started.
Steve
Steve, I see what you mean about rating the replies - some have been marked as "way off" but the original rude comment not marked at all!!!
How can you pick and choose who you rate like that....come on show some fairness to ALL members.
I will no longer be reading this thread, some of you will be pleased I know, but to me this is an elite room and not a fair open place. Steve is absolutely on the money with his comments and the regulars actions to these posts are proof enough of everything he said. You defend the disrespectful comment which has not been rated by any of you and then either post a comment about the rest of us or selectively decide to rate our comments.
You are judged by your actions and your actions in this thread speak volumes.
Pretty amazing, isn't it 
.
Steve
Handbags on Stun.
Marcus, please refrain from adding replies like this - I find it totally unacceptable, and to be honest you have annoyed me.
We have a saying in the UK "if you dont have anything good to say, then dont say anything at all". This applies to you!