The Privacy Settings page determines if users' Privacy Settings are respected during a Search of the Content Collection. Users have the option of choosing whether or not their user information is made public in the User Directory of the Blackboard Learning System. The Privacy Settings page allows Administrators to determine whether these privacy settings chosen by users will be respected during user searches of the Content Collection
Follow these steps to open the Privacy Settings page.
Open the Administrator Panel.
Select Settings under Content System. The Settings page will appear.
Select Privacy Settings.
Select Yes or No to determine if the privacy settings user’s set for the User Directory will be respected.
If Yes is selected, users who choose not to be listed in the User Directory will not appear during user searches in the Content Collection. If No is selected, users who choose not to be listed in the User Directory will appear during user searches in the Content Collection.
If a username does not appear during a user search in the Content Collection, check the settings on this page and also the settings that the user selected in Personal Information in of the Blackboard Learning System.