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Blackboard Learn Administration

By : Terry Patterson
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Blackboard Learn Administration

By: Terry Patterson

Overview of this book

Blackboard Learn is web application software that allows users around the world to participate in training and educational opportunities. This software is utilized in high schools, college campuses, corporations, and government entities."Blackboard Learn Administration" navigates both novice and experienced administrators through the simple and complex parts of the E-Learning portal.Readers go step-by-step with the author from planning and installing a Blackboard Learn instance to supporting and administrating a system with courses and users.The book starts with how to plan, install, and brand a Blackboard Learn instance. Readers then learn about the creation and management of courses and users. You then learn about the tools and controls that administrator's possess within Blackboard Learn. Readers also review how to improve security and performance within their system. You then dip into complex topics such as integrating Blackboard Learn with other information systems and publisher websites.Administrating Blackboard Learn educates the reader on the fundamental tools and tasks for basic administration, while explaining complex options that expert administrators want to tackle.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Blackboard Learn Administration
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
6
Creating Users in Blackboard Learn
Appendix
Index

Web services in Blackboard Learn


Blackboard Learn's building block system allows us to interact with new tools and content within our system. However, some integration options won't use a building block but would still want to interact with our Blackboard Learn environment. Web services allow third-party web applications to pull and push data between their environment and instance. One example of using a web service is Blackboard Connect's one-way text-messaging option. The created web service regularly pushes users' mobile phone numbers to a secure server which manages and sends the messages for our Blackboard Learn instance.

We access Web Services by clicking on the Web Services link in our Building Block module.

Here we see all the current web services installed within our environment. In our Manage Web Services area, we can set the internal secret. This secret is used between the web framework and the web session. We can also upload a ZIP or WAR file that creates a new web service. This...