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Create multiple profiles for IP address restrictions on assessments – 3900.110
Impact: Instructors, Administrators
Updated Help page: Assessment IP Address Filtering (admin), Restrict Location (Instructor, Ultra), Restrict Location (Instructor, Original)
Administrators can now create more than one profile associated with one or more ranges of IP addresses. Each profile supports different IP filter rule configurations. These filters help secure testing environments. Instructors can select the desired testing location from available profiles.
Within Grading Security Settings in the Administrator Panel, administrators can now select Add Profile to define another profile with specific IP filter rules. You can now also select Edit on an existing profile to make changes to that profile.
Image 1: On the Grading Security Settings page, select the new Add Profile option to create a new profile. Each profile has an edit option in the drop-down menu.
For more information on Assessment restrictions, go to Assessment IP Address Filtering.
Instructors
Instructors administering assessments in both Ultra and Original courses can now select the location of their choice from available profiles configured by the administrator.
In the Assessment Settings panel, instructors can apply a location restriction by selecting a location from available profiles.
Image 2: Instructors can now select from multiple locations in the Location restriction field in Assessment Settings.
Administrators
Availability: Available for all Ultra and Original Blackboard Courses
Activation: None needed.
Configuration: In the Administrator Panel, select Course Settings, then Grading Security Settings. If an existing course with IP restrictions is copied for a new course, IP restrictions need to be configured again.