DISCLAIMER: Once again, in this blog I describe options that deeply impact the integration of Blackboard Learn with your SIS. Thus the following ad hoc disclaimer: In this series, I’m reporting on how we plan to use Snaphot Flat File Integration at SWBTS. In fact, this blog series has grown out of documentation that I’m creating for our use at SWBTS. The information here may or may not be helpful to you. Please look closely at Blackboard’s documentation and at your institution’s policies for integration before you deploy it. It also wouldn’t hurt to do some testing in a test server environment before you go live (I know – I’m stating the obvious). End of disclaimer.
In previous blogs, we looked at Data Sources and Terms – how they function and how to create them in the Blackboard Learn UI. Remember that Data Sources delimit the data on which you are performing operations. Terms bequeath duration (from August 20 to December 2, say) to a batch of courses. We saw that both need to be in place before you begin creating and using integrations. (Actually, terms are optional. You don’t have to use them if you don’t want. But why would you not want to? Trust us, they’re pretty cool.) Continue reading
I’m celebrating this novel’s centennial by reading it for the very first time. And I’m almost embarrassed. Let’s face it, most folks know that Burroughs did as much on-site research for this book as he did for Princess of Mars. Besides that, he writes like someone who never grew up, like a boy dreaming big dreams. You know, the kind that feel graspable at the time but have no place in adult reality.