Step-By-Step
Setting Your Privacy Options
(Text version)

1. Although Blackboard has a built-in address book, the Tufts University Blackboard system does not make the Blackboard Address book function available system-wide. As a result there is very little information in a user's account that can made available to other students. The names of each student enrolled in a particular Blackboard course site appear on that course site under Communications / Roster / Search. By default, all other information concerning the student's account is not available for viewing by the rest of the students in the course.

2. Users may change this default setting allowing their e-mail address to viewed in a course site's Roster.

3. To change this e-mail Privacy Option:

• Log into Blackboard as usual.
• Click on the "Personal Information" link located on your Blackboard Home page. This will display the Personal Information menu.
• Click on the "Set Privacy Options" link. This will display the "Set Privacy Options" form.
• Checkmarking the "E-Mail Address" box will display your e-mail address in a course site Roster.
• Since Tufts Blackboard does not use the Address Book function, all of the other Privacy Options are mute.
• If you checkmark the "E-Mail Address" option, Click on "Submit". A receipt will be displayed telling you that your Privacy Options have been updated.

4. This Privacy option only applies to users viewing the course site Roster. Instructors and TAs have access to all of the information in a student's Blackboard account. By default, this includes the student's name, e-mail address, username and student ID#. Instructors or TAs do not have access to a student's password.

If you have any questions or comments regarding this Step-By-Step procedure contact the Tufts Blackboard Administrator at: nhirsig@tufts.edu