Portal Roles             

Overview

This role determines access to portal content. Different common areas and modules can be set to appear to specific roles to create a completely different portal environment for each of the different roles. For example, users with a Portal Role of Alumni could be given access to a common area with content dedicated to graduates. Users with a role of Student would not be able to see this tab or access the common area (until they graduated and their Portal Role was changed).

List of roles

The following is a listing of Portal Roles available in the Blackboard Portal System:

·          Student

·          Faculty

·          Staff

·          Alumni

·          Prospective Student

·          Guest

·          Other

·          Observer

·          Role 9, Role 10, . . ., Role 20

Roles 9 through 20 can be used by the Administrator to group users in unique ways. These roles can be renamed by the Administrator from the Edit Portal Roles page. Because the Portal Role is not displayed to users when they access the portal, the name of the role is unimportant to users. It is only important that the Administrator keep track of the role definitions and which users should be assigned to which role.