Saturday, November 19, 2011

Re: [BB] Changing Blackboard login selection page

HI Bill,

Looks good to me and simplifies the log in process.


Lyndon Godsall Ed.D, Ed.S, M.Ed, B.Ed
Instructional Designer
305-284-2710 Office
954-647-4634 Cell
l.godsall@miami.edu


On 11/18/11 3:45 PM, "Vilberg, William R." <bill.vilberg@MIAMI.EDU> wrote:

>Blackboard users,
>
>We are proposing some changes to the Blackbaord login selection page.
>This is the page that you use to select either the CaneID or the
>Blackboard login page. Before implementing them we wanted to run the
>changes by you to see if you have any problems with them. The first two
>are fairly minor, but we specifically want to know how the third change
>might affect your use of. Please let us know if any of these will have an
>affect on how you use Blackboard.
>
>You can see images of the current and proposed login selection pages at
>http://goo.gl/S09LY
>
>These are the changes being proposed:
>
>1. You can press ENTER/RETURN to use your CaneID username and password.
>(Since that is what most people do, it should speed up the process of
>logging in.)
>
>2. The text has been changed to, hopefully, make the options clearer
>("Login with" instead of "I have a ") and to direct people to the CaneID
>login page (larger text and bold text style on the primary path).
>
>3. The "Guest login" option has been removed. (Everyone accessing the
>Blackboard system will need to login.)
>
>If any of these will (negatively) impact your use of Blackboard, please
>let us know.
>
>No change will take place until after finals, but we need to get things
>scheduled now.
>
>Thank you,
>
>Bill Vilberg
>Technology Enhanced Learning
>bill.vilberg@miami.edu
>786-250-2255