About profiles
A profile isn't the same as your user account.
A user account is your student registration information at UCA.
More on personal information
A profile shows how you want to present yourself to your peers, classmates, and instructors. In your Blackboard profile, you decide what you want to be called, share your academic interests, and more.
Add a profile picture
If allowed, you can upload a profile picture that appears throughout the system and within the greater Blackboard academic network.
Your personal image appears in the page header, people tool, blogs, journals, discussions, wikis, and roster. Your profile picture also appears in the notifications modules, such as What's New. The modules may appear on the My Institution tab or on a course's home page.
More on the notification modules
The image you upload to your profile page overwrites any other profile images you have with your user account.
Images must be less than 5 MB and at least 50 x 50 pixels in dimension. Acceptable file formats include GIF, PNG, and JPEG.
No profile icon appears in the menu
If you don't see the empty profile icon in the menu, UCA hasn't turned on the profile tool.
- Select the arrow next to your name in the page header to open the menu.
- Select Settings at the bottom of the panel.
- Select Personal Information.
- On the Personal Information page, select Personalize My Settings.
- On the Personalize My Settings page, select Use custom avatar image and browse your computer for your picture.
- Select Submit. Your profile picture appears in the page header next to your name.
Profile
- On the Edit My Blackboard Profile page in the right panel, select Change Picture to upload an image from your computer.
- Select Submit.
Watch a video about adding a profile picture
Video: Add a profile picture shows how to upload your profile picture in the Original experience.
Set up your profile
You set up your profile in the My Blackboard menu. If allowed, you can add your profile picture that appears throughout the system and within the greater Blackboard academic network.
Watch a video about profiles
Video: My Blackboard Profiles shows how to set up your profile and view other profiles.
Privacy settings
Set who can see your profile and what they see.
- Public (recommended): Anyone with a Blackboard profile can find and view you on the People page. They don't have to be enrolled in the same institution, course, or organization as you. Your name and profile picture appear throughout your courses, and users can view a preview of your profile from there. You will also have a Google profile that is optimized for search engines so that others can search for you on the web.
- Hidden: No users can find and view you on the People page. Your name and profile picture appear throughout your courses, but users can't view a preview of your profile from there.
- My Institution: Anyone at your institution can find and view you on the People page. They don't have to be enrolled in the same course or organization as you. Your name and profile picture appear throughout your courses, and users can view a preview of your profile from there.
- All Institutions: Anyone with a Blackboard profile can find and view you on the People page. They don't have to be enrolled in the same institution, course, or organization as you. Your name and profile picture appear throughout your courses, and users can view a preview of your profile from there.
If you don't see some of these options, UCA hasn't turned them on.