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Request: Prior to August of 2001, faculty used to contact ITC for authorization
to access their course sites
within Blackboard each and every semester. The techgroup of ITC was tasked to
automate this process and I was assigned as lead programmer because of my previous
work with databases and web forms. (2001)
Solution: A faculty forms page was added to the Online@UT website.
Selecting links to Perl scripts, written by me, from within this page, faculty
can now be assigned to their courses via two different forms.
One form allows an authorized department employee
to assign instructors to their courses regardless of their course management system's (CMS)
certification status. This form is called the Instructor of Record form.
The second form allows instructors to assign themselves to their course sites if they
have been CMS certified. CMS certification is obtained by completing the CMS110 workshop
provided by ITC, either face-to-face or online. Later additions to the faculty forms page
include giving faculty the ability to combine multiple sections into one course site and/or
to delete old courses no longer being used. Like before, this is done through Perl
scripting.
The forms feed the information into a MySql database. This database is read every night and
the appropriate term specific records are batch processed through Blackboard's
"snapshot" procedure updating their Oracle database.
You can view the
faculty forms page here.
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