So far in this chapter, we have reviewed the user roles available in our Blackboard Learn instance. Our discussions have shown how to create, copy, and manage roles along with how to manage privileges, and have been mainly focused on the how-tos that Blackboard administrators need to know. Now let's talk about what we can do as administrators to manage who has access.
Regularly audit users to system roles: Often, we have more than one person to help administrate our Blackboard Learn instance. As part of any good security policy, it's important that we ensure an annual or semi-annual review of all users who have a system role. We can do this within our Blackboard instance by going back to the Users page and selecting System Roles from the options. Many administrators keep a spreadsheet listing the users who have roles to compare audits.
Regularly review the privileges for roles: Sometimes system roles will need access to complete a task...