Users play an important part in our Blackboard Learn environment. Whether they are students, teaching assistants, instructors, support staff, or administrators, like us, each one has a role in the system. These roles require privileges, which allow the users to complete tasks and control access to areas, just like our hotel or apartment complex. We as administrators should develop ways to monitor which users have access to the different parts of Blackboard Learn and when privilege changes allow new roles to gain or lose specific abilities. Our final discussion about users reviewed the ways to restrict access completely by disabling or removing users.
We've mainly talked about courses and users over the past few chapters, but now let's move into some of the important tools for administrators within Blackboard. The application offers numerous tools within courses, but some of these same tools can help us manage and inform our virtual community. Our next chapter gives us a crash course...