Blackboard
Personal Information at UMBC
Each Blackboard
user at UMBC has a user account that contains some of your personal
information. By default, the following information is included
in each Blackboard user account when it is created:
First and Last name
UMBC user ID
Social Security number
In order
to send/ receive email through the Blackboard system, each
user must edit their personal information to include their appropriate
email address, and at the same time edit any information that
they
feel should be edited.
To
access and edit your personal information log onto http://blackboard.umbc.edu.
1. Click
on the Login Button
2. Log
into Blackboard using your UMBC userid and password.
3. Once
you are logged into Blackboard you will see a gray Tool Box on
the left side of the screen. Click
on the Personal Information link and this will take
you to your Personal Information page inside Blackboard.
4. To edit your personal information click on
the Edit Personal Information link.
The
important fields to consider are your:
First
and last name
UMBC user name
Email address
By default
the email field will be empty. Enter the email address that you use
on a regular basis
even if it is not your UMBC account.
Note: Feel
free to delete your social security number under Student ID if
you would like.
5. Click
on "Submit" at the bottom of
the page and the changes will be saved.
Privacy
Options
Note: On the
Personal Information page you also have the
option to set your privacy options, that is whether or not
you would like to have your email address appear in the roster
area of your Blackboard courses.
1. Click on the Set
Privacy Options link on the Personal
Information page.
2. Check
the box next to Email Address if you want to
have your address in the course roster. If you do
not want it to appear leave the box blank
and click "Submit".
Note: Regardless
of whether you want your email address to appear or not you will
still have the ability to send/receive email within Blackboard.
3. If you chose to have your email address appear in your courses,
users will be able to find the address in the course roster.
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