Prerequisites and Configurations for Instructor Alert Integration

The topics in this section provide information on the prerequisites and configurations for Instructor Alert integration.

Prerequisites

• The institution must be live (installed and configured) with Anthology Reach and Blackboard.

• Ensure a common unique student identifier exists between Anthology Reach and Blackboard.

• Ensure that enrollment, academic period, and course history data is populated in Anthology Reach.

• Ensure the LMS External Identifier field on the Course Section table in Anthology Reach is populated with a value that matches the course batch_UID field in Blackboard.

• A current contract for the Anthology Succeed module is present.

• The following steps must be performed by an Anthology Reach DevOps professional. The implementation team should create a Service Desk ticket for the Deployment team to perform the following tasks:

  1. Ensure the following components are created:

     • Azure resources (Azure Service Bus, Topics, and Subscriptions) required for integration.

  2. On the azure portal, configure the following details for the Blackboard integration:

     • Azure Service Bus Connection String

     • Names of Topics and Subscriptions created for the Blackboard integration.

       • LMSAlertSubscription

       • LMSAlertTopc