Over the past nine chapters, we have set up a virtual community that can serve our organization's needs. However, we need to populate and allow access to it. Our discussions reviewed how we can do that within our Blackboard Learn environment. In this chapter, the topic turns to helping integrate other systems within our organization to populate, secure, and manage access to our Blackboard Learn instance. We have several aspects of the integration process to cover, including:
Integrating authentication protocols within Blackboard Learn
Developing a process to integrate data information systems into Blackboard Learn
Reviewing the data-integration options available in Blackboard Learn
Learning how to create a basic data integration within our Blackboard Learn environment
Our integrations will not only challenge our skills as Blackboard administrators, but also require us to work with other administrators, and possibly departments...