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Blackboard Integration

Presented by:

Bill Homer

Director, Client Services Rave Wireless March 31, 2009

Student Configurability

> Announcements, Calendar items, Assignments and Grade postings* delivered to students > Notification preferences set by course > Student sets defaults, but can override by course * Please note that Blackboard Grade postings are only available to users of Blackboard 8.0 or higher.

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Text Based Notifications

> Students receive SMS messages from their course to their preferred mobile phone > Content truncated if necessary to fit in 160 characters proprietary & confidential

E-Mail Based Notifications

> Students receive emails from their course to their preferred email address proprietary & confidential

Blackboard Subscription Experience

User logs in to the Rave Alert application to configure preferences and arrives at the Rave user console.

proprietary & confidential User clicks “Alert me by” option to toggle BlackBoard alerting on, and this enables Blackboard Announcements dialogue box

One-time configuration for BB access

proprietary & confidential User enters Blackboard credentials and hits submit. User may then select to receive updates by SMS, Email, web or any combination.

User Preferences Interface

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Accessing Rave from within BB

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Accessing Rave from within BB

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Standard Blackboard Integration Options

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LDAP ID:

Users will provide their LDAP ID and password during the Rave registration process. Rave will user the LDAP ID that was verified to retrieve Blackboard information for that user. The user will not need to re-authenticate at the application level.

Blackboard ID:

Users will provide Rave with their Blackboard ID and password. Rave will use the Blackboard ID and password to do an initial authentication with Blackboard. Once authenticated, Rave will only store the Blackboard ID. This method is used if neither LDAP ID nor Email address match the Blackboard ID.

Email Identifier:

Users will provide their Email address and password during the Rave registration process. Rave will use their Email identifier (ID prior to the “@” symbol) in order to retrieve Blackboard information for that user. 10 proprietary & confidential