A Blackboard building block, providing a list of upcoming activities of the authenticated user, is available through our GitHub page. Please refer to the following links:
README / Install guide | https://github.com/eveoh/blackboard-mytimetable/blob/master/README.md |
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Download page |
The building block shows a list of upcoming events of the logged in user, and provides a link to the full MyTimetable interface:
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Blackboard import
One of the features of the building block, is the ability for a user to fetch his or her list of courses from Blackboard, and match it with the modules available in your timetabling system. The exact configuration of this integration is customer-specific; the only setting settings of importance to MyTimetable administrators is are the Blackboard service URL and the API token to use, specified in the Tomcat Context configuration file:
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<!-- This should point to the enrollmentsForUser service in the Blackboard building block, the 'bb_bb60' string depends on your Blackboard virtual instance ID --> <Environment name="scheduleviewer/server/BlackboardTimetableSuggestionStrategy/EnrollmentsServiceUrl" value="https://your_blackboard_host/webapps/evh-mytimetable-b2-bb_bb60/enrollmentsForUser" type="java.lang.String" /> <!-- This should be the same API token as configured in the Blackboard building block --> <Environment name="scheduleviewer/server/BlackboardTimetableSuggestionStrategy/ApiToken" value="YOUR-API-TOKEN" type="java.lang.String" /> |
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