Ah, ok - sorry, not right head on to think - in that case, no, if you're
basic, I think, but yes if you're enterprise; with a caveat or two. You can
add a link in sysadmin to divert the change password link from personal
info, problem I found here is that it changes the one on my institution
tools link, not the one from Tools in a course. If you try to set the
default of course tools at admin level to not show these, it is the whole
personal info/password/privacy settings etc not just password, and they
don't disappear, they just aren't links. Rather odd, and somewhat
irritating - you need then to go and make that tool invisible in each
course's tools. Be interested to know if other enterprise users are getting
this and I might submit a trivial ticket. (Copied back to the list to make
this point)
The other thing you could do, perhaps further away from the answer is add a
change(/forgotten?) password link to the customisable login page
(customisable basic or enterprise) - no forcing of change, but they'd see
the link.
Let us know what you come up with!
Kate
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Learning Technologies Team
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-----Original Message-----
From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 09 July 2003 14:36 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: RE: Password reset
thanks Kate, by email I mean that the Lost Password page (once filled
in) sends a message to the users default emailsetup in Blackboard. Is
there a way around this?
-----Original Message-----
From: Kate Boardman [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 09 July 2003 12:37
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Password reset
I think you'd probably have to set up a series of protected pages at
webapps/login (5) or docs/login (6) to grab them as they first try to
log
in, give them a password change page and then pass them on in the
'thanks'
to the actual login page. That would get around it. Not sure if it's
somehting you can do directly in Bb
Not sure what you mean by log into their email account, but we for
example
give an initial password which students (freshers) must change within 28
days. If you set a query page as your index to Blackboard (all horribly
against your license, so Bb guys, this is a theoretical proposal and I
haven't done it, honest!!) which checked against your password database
(LDAP or something) to see if they'd changed it and then either let them
through to login to Bb or faced them with the change page then that
should
work?
Actually, that's almost quite a good idea - I'll have a look into it
myself... :) We discussed (tongue in cheek) the other day whether we
could
get students to do their C&IT skills audit the first time they logged
onto a
networked machine instead of queuing - maybe it's not as daft as it
sounded...
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Kate Boardman
Learning Technologies Team
IT Service
University of Durham
South Road
Durham DH1 3LE
t. 0191 334 2778
e. [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
w. http://www.dur.ac.uk/k.l.boardman
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IT Service: http://www.dur.ac.uk/ITS/duo/
-----Original Message-----
From: MLE Blackboard/Courseinfo userslist
[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Najib Maan
Sent: 08 July 2003 11:49 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Password reset
Can anyone help?
Is there a way of enforcing password change for all users in Blackboard
5.5.1 where a user will not have to login to their email account to
reset the password?
I have tried to submit a ticket to the support team in USA but I think
their server is down!
Najib Maan
Blackboard Administrator / Support
e- learning @TVU
ext 7832 (external 01753 697832)
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