Mark Hodgson New College Durham DON'T "MAKE DO" WITH THE OLD SNAPSHOT GENERATOR, "SPEND" TIME IMPROVING THINGS WITH THE NEW SIS INTEGRATION FRAMEWORK

 Presentation – 15mins  Q&A – 10mins TODAYS PRESENTATION

 Self Hosted – Blackboard 5 -> Blackboard 9.1 SP4, Snapshot Controller  Moved to Managed Hosting – Blackboard 9.1 SP9, Integration Framework REASON FOR CHANGE AT NCD

 7 feed files:  Students (approx 8300 rows)  Staff (approx 780 rows)  Schools (11 rows)  Courses (approx 760 rows)  Course to school mapping (approx 760 rows)  Student to course mapping (approx rows)  Staff to course mapping (approx rows) FEED FILE SETUP

 New integration features not covered:  Institutional Hierarchy  Terms SIS INTEGRATION FRAMEWORK

 Will be using SIS Integrations option and the Data Sources option. DATA INTEGRATIONS

 Used to group data together DATA SOURCES

INTEGRATIONS

INTEGRATIONS – ADVANCED CONFIG

 Details needed to send the feed files to the VLE is on this screen INTEGRATIONS – HTTP INFORMATION  3 Operation types – Store, Complete Refresh and Delete

 Via cURL /bin/curl -k -v -H "Content-Type:text/plain" -u : ' --url  Via manual upload in the GUI This can be done from the integration screen, choose file to upload, the type of data and the operation type. SENDING FEED FILES TO VLE

 Pros  More knowledge of the whole process  More granular control  Functionality out-of-the-box  Cons  Time - snapshot (5-10mins), integration (50mins) CONCLUSIONS AND FINDINGS

 Any questions?  New College Durham Contact details Q&A Mark Hodgson George Wraith