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New Blackboard Self Enroll Tutorial! Blackboard Feedback (want to check out more tutorials?! Here you go: Blackboard Self Enroll Tutorials)
Environment Changes and App Updates
The Phishing Email Issue with Blackboard
Just an update for any frustrated users who reach out to you about the phishing emails . We find it helps the frustration alot if we are transparent with the work we’ve done to fix this issue. Please let people know:
We are aware of the issue and actively working to fix it.
We When this problem first reared its head: We attempted to whitelist these emails, per Blackboard’s instructions, and unfortunately, that did not fix the problem like as we hoped
When that didn't work...: We opted to communicate out to the entire campus on the temporary fix/work-around workaround while we continue to work on the issue (That email message that everyone got) .We have reached out to , this went out as 2 emails over the last few weeks. The point of that communication was to notify users (because they were going to run into the issue regardless) and assure them that we are aware of the problem and working on it.
Now: we are currently in communication with Google to see if there is anything that can be tweaked on their end to resolve this the phishing sassiness and will keep trying and communicating with campus until we can figure it out :-)
- if anyone contacts you please feel free to let them know:
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Popular Ticket Theme from last week :-) Student is enrolled in a course they (1) want to see and can’t see it (need to display a course) or (2) Student is enrolled in a course they don’t want to see, (how to hide a course).
This article will help :D --> Hide or Display Courses in the My Courses Module
Here is a link to the Confluence: Help Desk Hot Topics Blog. Thanks for your time and all the hard work you do!