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Calendar Events Setup

Rest API Integration

**Calendar events must be configured by an authorized Blackboard Administrator user.

Log in to your Blackboard Learn account and navigate to the “Admin” page from the side panel navigation.

  1. Select “Rest API Integrations” found in the integrations panel.

  2. Select the “Create Integration” button on the screen.

  3. Replicate the information displayed below into the designated fields.

    Application ID = cb8e5790-3339-4c5b-a488-6ac8eb272420

    Learn User = This should be a Blackboard user with Admin privileges.

    End User Access = “Yes” (no change) Authorized To Act As User = Service Default (No) (no change)

  4. Click “Submit”

Add an Evaluate Link (Blackboard only)

Institutions utilizing the Blackboard Learn experience have the option of adding a link on the calendar event for students to see their available evaluations directly in Blackboard.

  1. Setup the “Anthology REST.LTI - A” LTI 1.3 Tool.

    Follow steps 1-2 under the “Configure Your LTI Tool Provider” section of the “Evaluation Reminders Setup” found at the bottom of this page. *Skip this step if you have previously set up the tool.

  2. Locate Anthology REST.LTI - A from the list of tool providers.

  3. Hover your mouse over the text and click the dropdown arrow that appears.

  4. Select “Manage Placements”from the dropdown menu to view all placement types.

  5. Click on the “Create Placement” button on the Manage Placements page.

  6. Fill out the following fields:

    • Label = Calendar Event LTI Link

    • Description = optional

    • Handle = ce9cb1416c71410191c6bdb34094766e

    • Availability = Select “Yes”

    • Type = Select “Deep Linking content tool”

      • Check “Allow student access”

  7. Scroll to the Tool Provider Information section at the bottom of the page:

    The Target Link URI and Tool Provider Custom Parameters value will be unique to each institution.

    The Target Link URI field combines your unique Evaluate URL with the additional value: /eval-home/ added to the end of the URL string.

  8. Next, copy and paste the following value into the Tool Provider Custom Parameters field: user_name=@X@user.id@X@

    *Note: if needed, other options are available for user_name parameters for Blackboard.

  9. Click “Submit” once complete.

  10. Navigate back to the Administrator Tools Page

  11. Click on the “Configure” button under “The Experience is here!” section.

  12. Expand the “Enable LTI Deep link to course calendar entries” under Available Features.

  13. Ensure the Feature Flag is set to “On”.

Submit a Support Ticket

Once you've completed the steps mentioned above, a member of our support team must enable the feature for your institution. To do so, please create a support ticket indicating your desire to enable calendar events and include your Blackboard Learn URL in the ticket details.

Launching the Tool

Once a member of our support team enables the feature, students may now begin to view calendar events for upcoming course evaluations!

Please note that it may take up to 12 hours for the system to display the event after it has been added to an administration. The feature includes both a start event, set to appear at the administration's opening time, and an end event, which displays one hour before its closure.

Calendar items created for Blackboard Learn courses will have an additional “Evaluate Home” link. Clicking on this link will show students their evaluations to take.