Post on 23-Feb-2016
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Mark HodgsonNew College Durham
DON'T "MAKE DO" WITH THE OLD SNAPSHOT GENERATOR, "SPEND" TIME IMPROVING THINGS WITH THE NEW SIS
INTEGRATION FRAMEWORK
Presentation – 15minsQ&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 20250 rows) Staff to course mapping (approx 38200 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
INTEGRATIONS
INTEGRATIONS
INTEGRATIONS – ADVANCED CONFIG
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 <username>:<password> --data-binary @'<feedfile path>' --url <endpoint>
Via manual upload in the GUIThis 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 Hodgsonmark.hodgson@newdur.ac.uk
George Wraithgeorge.wraith@newdur.ac.uk