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Good morning Chris

Please add Aberdeen College to the list supporting the suggestions below. 

Thanks

Phil Richards
Learning Technologies (ILT) Manager
Aberdeen College
01224 612383

Mobile: 07595711268

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Please forgive any typos. 

On 15 May 2013, at 06:56, "Hilary Griffiths" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hi Chris,
Would you add the University of Bristol too?
Thanks
Hilary

On Tuesday, 14 May 2013, Margaret Adamson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Chris
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> Can you add University of Dundee to the list also please – thanks for co-ordinating this – the lack of control at the moment is v. frustrating!
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> From: Blackboard/Courseinfo userslist [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bird, Alice
> Sent: 14 May 2013 15:34
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> Subject: Re: Cloud profiles and spaces - anyone gone live yet?
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> Hi Chris
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> Can you also add Liverpool John Moores University to the list?  We would also like some control over cloud profiles at a local level.
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> From: Blackboard/Courseinfo userslist [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Boon, Chris
> Sent: 14 May 2013 11:14
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> Subject: Re: Cloud profiles and spaces - anyone gone live yet?
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> Thanks Malcolm; this sounds like an excellent idea.  So, just to clarify, our suggestions are currently as follows:
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> 1)     Only add a user’s profile to the Blackboard cloud when they have explicitly agreed for their details to be transferred, perhaps with an Agree button when a user first clicks on the Edit My Blackboard Profile button.
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> 2)     Constrain the sharing/visibility of profiles by Institutional Role, to enable different roles to either have no access to cloud profiles at all, only Hidden or Private, just My School, or full visibility (All Blackboard Users)
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> 3)     Add the ability to exclude certain courses and organisations from the cloud, including the exclusion of all organisations, excluding specific courses and organisations, or only including courses and organisations with a course ID which matches a certain pattern, to ensure that profiles are only see by ‘true’ classmates.
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> And then, depending on the response from my question about deleting profiles:
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> 4)     Ensure that cloud profiles are only stored on the Blackboard server for an agree period of time after their matching Learn profile is deleted, or after an agree period of inactivity, to ensure compliance with Principle 5 of the Data Protection Act 1998
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> Does this sound OK?  So far we have the following institutions signing this:
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> University of Durham
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> University of Swansea
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> City College Norwich
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> The University of Dundee is a registered Scottish Charity, No: SC015096

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Hilary Griffiths
Deputy Director, Education Support Unit
(Technology Enhanced Learning)
Academic Registry
University of Bristol
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