Now we have our integration created within our Blackboard Learn instance. Our files have been tested and don't seem to create any issues. The next step in the integration set up process is getting the file from its current location and into our Blackboard Learn instance for processing.
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The old snapshot process required a two-step process that first required us to make the file available on our environment; then the snapshot tool to process it. The file would arrive on the server either by FTP or by a shared mount point and then be processed. This required us to create cron jobs or scheduled tasks, which delayed the syncing of user, course, and enrollment information. This syncing delay should become smaller using the new SIS Framework HTTP Post process.
The new framework runs a web service that allows our student information system to send our flat file to a specific URL via the HTTP POST method. The URLs that we need to use with our flat files can be...