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Show Icons Only Without Teaching Style Privilege Returns Access Denied

An instructor with the Teaching Style privilege restricted will still see the Show Icon Only and Text Only options in a content area and receive an access denied message.

Description

Show Icons Only Without Teaching Style Privilege Will Return Access Denied With edit mode on, if you browse to a content area, then from its drop-down menu in the main pane, choose "Show Icons only" the user will get an error saying Access Denied and asking them to log in. However if they select "Edit" from that same menu and change the default display to be "Icons only" from the page everything works fine.

Steps to Replicate

  1. Log in to Blackboard as an Administrator

  2. Copy an instructor role

  3. Click on the chevron for the role and choose Privileges

  4. Restrict Course/Organization Control Panel (Customization) > Teaching Style

  5. Create a course and enroll a user with the role above

  6. Log in as the new user

  7. Navigate into a content area

  8. Click on chevron next to the name of the content area at the top of the page

  9. Choose Show Icons Only

Observed Result:
An access denied message is received.
​Expected Result:
Show Icons Only and Show Text Only options should not be available with restricted privilege.

Affected Versions

  • Learn October 2014 (9.1.201410.160373)

  • Learn April 2014 (9.1.201404.160205)

  • 9.1 SP14 (9.1.140152.0)

  • 9.1 SP12 (9.1.120113.0)

  • 9.1 SP13 (9.1.130093.0)

Target Release

Will Not Fix

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