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Hi Cindy,

No need to apologize or modify any files. You can easily make additional profile field sections open by default by adding the following simple JavaScript to the Site Administration > Appearance > Additional HTML > Before Body is Closed field:

<script>
if (document.getElementById('page-login-signup')) {
   document.getElementById('id_category_1').classList.remove("collapsed");
   document.getElementById('id_category_1').classList.remove("collapsible");
}
</script>

Explanation:

• The if line just checks to make sure you are on the sign-up page. 
• The line that ends with "collapsed"); will expand the collapsed section.
• The line that ends with "collapsible"); will remove the ability for the section to be collapsed again. This is optional but you did request a solution that will keep it open.

If you want to expand this on both the Sign-up page and the Edit Profile page, this can be accomplished with a slight modification to the line starting with if:

<script>
if (document.getElementById('page-login-signup') || document.getElementById('page-user-editadvanced')) {
   document.getElementById('id_category_1').classList.remove("collapsed");
   document.getElementById('id_category_1').classList.remove("collapsible");
}
</script>

If you have more than one section that you want to automatically expand, add more sets of both lines starting with document.getElementByID..., increasing the category number in each additiona set. Example:

<script>
   document.getElementById('id_category_1').classList.remove("collapsed");
   document.getElementById('id_category_1').classList.remove("collapsible");
   document.getElementById('id_category_2').classList.remove("collapsed");
   document.getElementById('id_category_2').classList.remove("collapsible");
</script>

By adding more JavaScript, you could even have it automatically do this for as many sections as there exists however I suspect this might be enough to meet your requirement and it gives you a little more control in case you don't want to expand all additional sections.

I tested this on Moodle 3.9 and 3.11 with the Boost, Classic, Trema, Moove and Adaptable themes and it seems to work. However, you may need to adapt it for other versions of Moodle and other themes.

Hope you find this helpful.

Best regards,

Michael Milette