{"id":553,"date":"2008-07-01T14:02:06","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T18:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=553"},"modified":"2008-07-01T19:51:14","modified_gmt":"2008-07-01T23:51:14","slug":"blackboards-direct-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2008\/07\/01\/blackboards-direct-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackboard&#8217;s Direct Help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just noticed an item in <a href=\"http:\/\/behind.blackoard.com\/\">Behind the Blackboard<\/a> for &#8220;Direct Help&#8221;. This seems to be a way Blackboard is attempting to <a href=\"http:\/\/institutionhelp.blackboard.com\/\">help students and parents find assistance by directing them to institutions<\/a>. I probably missed the propaganda about this initiative. Though I do understand the problem and why it ought to be solved. People end up at Blackboard&#8217;s site asking for assistance with administrative items (passwords, changes to settings, etc.). Things the school ought to resolve&#8230; Not Blackboard.<\/p>\n<p>Notre Dame, California State University &#8211; Chico, or California State University &#8211; Sacramento were schools I know but not easily found by me in the search. The ones I did were Georgia Southern University, Valdosta State University, University System of Georigia, and University of Western Ontario. None of those had it set up yet.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds like I am in good company.<\/p>\n<p>To set it up, one either gives them a link to use as a redirect or create a web page to provide information. Does anyone know of examples where someone has set it up?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just noticed an item in Behind the Blackboard for &#8220;Direct Help&#8221;. This seems to be a way Blackboard is attempting to help students and parents find assistance by directing them to institutions. I probably missed the propaganda about this initiative. Though I do understand the problem and why it ought to be solved. People [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22],"tags":[591,130,263,92,416,262,3036,341],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bbvista","tag-blackboard-inc","tag-georgia","tag-information","tag-parents","tag-propaganda","tag-search","tag-university","tag-valdosta-state"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-8V","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}