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

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

3.  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

4.  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

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

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

7.  Used to group data together DATA SOURCES

8. INTEGRATIONS

12. INTEGRATIONS – ADVANCED CONFIG

14.  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

15.  Via cURL /bin/curl -k -v -H "Content-Type:text/plain" -u : --data-binary @' ' --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

16.  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

17.  Any questions?  New College Durham Contact details Q&A Mark Hodgson mark.hodgson@newdur.ac.uk George Wraith george.wraith@newdur.ac.uk