From: Blackboard/Courseinfo userslist [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Melanie Barrand
Sent: 06 December 2017 16:55
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Subject: Re: Blackboard App - Terms of Use

Hello Craig

 

We’re not on the right Building Block version to use the Instructor app so it’s interesting to know they would see this too.

 

I assume their terms of use have been written for their range of products. If a student or member of staff reads them there are a few worrying snippets. Amongst them:

 

"Further, if you stop using the Products for more than 60 days, your accounts may be deleted and Blackboard assumes no responsibility for Content deleted following inactivity.”

"You retain your rights to any Content you submit, post, or display on or through the Products. By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through the Products, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, host, store, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, create derivative works, communicate, display, and/or distribute such Content in any and all media or distribution methods (now known or later developed) as part of providing any of the Products.”

 

Melanie Barrand
Learning Technologies Team | University of Leeds

 

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Hi Chris

 

Both Blackboard Instructor and the Blackboard (student) app have received updates and both prompt the user to agree to a Terms of Use – from what I can see both terms of use are the same. I’ve tested with both real staff and student accounts and that made no difference.

 

Cheers

 

 

Craig Wakefield MSc PGCE FHEA

Learning Technologies Adviser

 

University of Brighton

School of Sport & Service Management, School of Health Sciences

Queenwood Library, Eastbourne

 

Tel: 01273 64 (4112)

Mob: 07964431090

 

Twitter: @craig_wakefield

Blog: https://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/elearningteam/

 

Have you checked out our support pages for Learning & Teaching?

 

 

 

 

 

Craig

 

 

I’ve just updated my Blackboard app to the latest version and I was asked to log in again, and was then presented with the new Blackboard Terms of Use:

 

 

You can scroll down to read it all (there’s a lot of it!).  As Melanie said, clicking Disagree takes you back to the logon screen.

 

The actual terms seem surprisingly detailed for an end user – they look to me like the Ts & Cs we’d sign on behalf of our institution when we accept a Blackboard license.  Scrolling down gives this type of information:

 

 

Text such as “You may use the Products only if you can form a binding contract with Blackboard” seems surprising for our students to see – this sounds a bit beyond compliance with GDPR.

 

My account is a system administrator account – has anyone signed into the new app with a “real” student account yet?  It would be useful to check if everyone is seeing this.

 

Best

Chris

 

 

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