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Blackboard is a Learning Management System used by thousands of schools around the world. It can be extended by developers through the Building Blocks API and Web Services Specifications.

Blackboard is a Learning Management System used by thousands of schools around the world. It can be extended by developers through the Building Block API.

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Test for Active Blackboard Session

We're using hosted Blackboard 9.1. I'm protecting some self-hosted course materials (HTML/Flash) with a coldfusion security wrapper. I'd like to bypass the security wrapper login prompt by detecting an active blackboard session. Is it possible to do…
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kableExtra HTML tables in exams2blackboard do not render properly in Blackboard Ultra VLE

I have the following R/Markdown code that uses R/exams and kableExtra to generate a randomised question for use in the Blackboard Ultra VLE. Although it renders fine in plain HTML when I import the generated archive from exams2blackboard() into the…
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R/exams exams2blackboard the order of the questions is randomly assigned in the exam

I have used exams2blackboard to generate an exam and import it into Blackboard. The format of the exam is correct but the order of the questions are shown randomly each time the exam is taken (without selecting that option in Blackboard). How can I…
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R/exams d2l multiple choice question doesn't select correct answer

I use the following to create a D2L exam from the "capital.Rmd" example (I converted the question to schoice) exams2blackboard("capitals.Rmd", n =3, name = "testquiz" ) After I upload the testquiz.zip file, I notice that the correct answer must be…
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Blackboard exams not respecting eval options for schoice and mchoice

I have successfully created simple multiple choice blackboard exams using exams2blackboard() in the newest (github) version of the r exams package. However, including mchoice (multiple answer) questions and trying to enable partial credit and…
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Blackboard not importing Blackboard.zip

I'm trying to import the Blackboard.zip file created by r/exams but I got the following warning Dec 10, 2020 2:00:36 PM - [FATAL] Fatal: An error has occurred. The error recorded is: The .zip file you provided failed to import. Please try again…
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How to return only one row per course

I am trying to return a list of course IDs that contain three components: assignments, discussions, and a syllabus. I want my results to have only one row per course ID with either Y's or N's indicating whether those courses have assignments,…
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Is there a way to make this case statement work?

I am getting the following error with the code below: ERROR: argument of AND must be type boolean, not type character varying LINE 9: and case ^ SQL state: 42804 Character: 300 This code does a few things, but what I am having…
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Blackboard installation

I worked on Moodle few months ago and I was searching in the past days on a way to install blackboard LMS locally to try it, but I didn't found any link that talks about this. I thought they were the same way but it was dark so if anyone could give…
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Does anyone know how to authenticate users using the Blackboard REST api?

I'm trying to use the blackboard REST APIs on this site: https://developer.blackboard.com/portal/displayApi However, I'm not exactly sure how to get started authenticating students. How do I authenticate blackboard students on my mobile app so that…
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Android login to blackboard with stored user ID and password

I am trying to write an app that will, among other things, allow me to log in to my school's blackboard page. I want to be able to log in automatically with the username and password stored by the app and display the page in a WebView. I have been…
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How to insert multiple rows in a pgsql table, if the table is empty?

I'm developing a Building Block for Blackboard, and have run into a database related issue. I'm trying to insert four rows into a pgsql table, but only if the table is empty. The query runs as a post-schema update, and is therefore run whenever I…
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Specify case sensitivity for Blackboard tests when designing outside of Blackboard?

All! I am trying design tests in Blackboard that have many questions. I've been using MS Excel to make long collections of questions that I upload to Blackboard. This has been working very well and I've been able to use HTML to my advantage to…
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Get all the activities in a course of Blackboard LMS in java

I want to fetch all the activities within a course. I have used below code, but it results me 0 record. public static ActivityVO[] getActivity(String p_courseId) { GetActivity l_getActivity = new GetActivity(); ActivityFilter…
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Certain Asset in Blackboard receiving 404

We are creating a SCORM package (zip) and uploading to our Blackboard test instance and if one developer (will call him Bob) creates the zip and uploads then all everything works great. Myself and one other developer have packaged up the zip and…
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