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Blackboard Vista Integration
04 December 2008, 14:26
My institution has just started using mahara and we would like to integrate it with BlackBoard Vista, but I cannot find anything on doing so anywhere can someone help?
04 December 2008, 15:55
There is no code to do such an integration currently, as far as I'm aware.
Mahara has one system of SSO/integration, called MNET. Blackboard has something called PowerConnectors. Someone would probably have to write a significant amount of code for either system to get them to integrate, so I guess that will only happen if an organisation funds or does the work themselves (given that blackboard is closed source, I can't see an individual developer being able to write any blackboard code...)
08 December 2008, 14:33
Yeah, it would be a "Powerlink" for Bb/WebCT Vista:
http://www.blackboard.com/extend/powerlinks/develop_powerlinks.htm
If no one's produced one yet I'd be surprised if someone wasn't already thinking about it. Maybe on the Bb Vista Powerlink dev network.
08 December 2008, 17:53
Powerlinks, that's the one I was thinking of. They have so many (R) and (tm) symbols after their names it's a surprise they're even readable 
I do know one university was looking to do this work at one point (they already had a developer license), but in the end they didn't do it. So yeah, I guess there could be someone out there thinking about it for sure.