Snapshot's replacement, the SIS Framework, is a hybrid of the snapshot tool we just spoke about and the IMS Enterprise and Learning Information Services standards set up by the IMS Global Learning Consortium. This standardization of the integration process helps enrollment and user-management tools, such as SunGard or Peoplesoft to name a few, build integration connections within their enterprise applications to our Blackboard Learn instance. While these options may limit the amount of work we must do within our system for full integration, our coming discussions will cover all the different aspects in case we must build an integration from scratch.
We begin our SIS Framework integration by understanding the options that we have to integrate within our student information system in our Blackboard Learn environment. We can see these options by clicking on the Data Integration link under the Building Blocks module in our Administrator panel. Once there,...