Overview
Blackboard Learn for REST and LTI Developers is a pre-configured, ready to run image for running Blackboard Learn on Amazon EC2 for testing REST and LTI integrations and previewing the Blackboard Learn LMS.
Blackboard Learn is the industry-leading learning management system (LMS) that gives students and educators ways to stay engaged inside and outside of the classroom. Blackboard Learn provides a simple, yet powerful learning platform that includes course delivery, community engagement, and content management functionality. Developers have used the Blackboard development platform to extend Blackboard Learns features in the areas of grading, content creation, course management, and many others.
Highlights
- Blackboard Learn for REST and LTI offers Developers extensive, open REST APIs enabling easy integration for third party applications that can manage and use data from Blackboard Learn to enhance the teaching and learning experience for instructors, students, and administrator tools.
- Supports open standards such as Learning Tool Interoperability (LTI). Extensible, with a well-documented API for integration with third party apps and tools.
- Preinstalled and Configured, Easy to Use!
Details
Typical total price
$0.143/hour
Pricing
Instance type | Product cost/hour | EC2 cost/hour | Total/hour |
|---|---|---|---|
t2.large Recommended | $0.05 | $0.093 | $0.143 |
t2.xlarge | $0.05 | $0.186 | $0.236 |
Additional AWS infrastructure costs
Type | Cost |
|---|---|
EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2) volumes | $0.10/per GB/month of provisioned storage |
Vendor refund policy
AMI usage is billed by AWS based on actual usage. As such, there are no refunds, but you may cancel your subscription at any time. Annual and Monthly subscriptions are not available.
Legal
Vendor terms and conditions
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Delivery details
64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
Version release notes
Release Notes: Version 3900.93.0 SaaS of the Blackboard Learn for REST and LTI Developers AMI is compatible with the Blackboard Learn SaaS 3900.93.0 release. Please see the AMI documentation on our Developer Support site for usage and SSL setup. Blackboard Learn for REST and LTI Developer AMIs are released in cadence with our SaaS releases; as such, APIs introduced in versions later than non-SaaS Blackboard Learn versions will be available on subsequent general releases.
Additional details
Usage instructions
Complete the following steps to launch a Blackboard Learn for REST and LTI Developers AMI:
- Read support documentation at: https://docs.anthology.com/docs/rest-apis/learn/sandbox/developer-ami
- On the Blackboard Learn product page, click the "Continue" button.
- Use the "Launch with EC2 Console" tab to deploy the Blackboard Learn for REST and LTI Developers AMI. Select version and region then click "Launch with EC2 Console".
- In the Launch Instances Wizard select the Large instance type, and a VPC, and click "Next."
- Enable inbound security settings for SSH (use My Ip), HTTPS (443 all), and HTTP (80 all).
- Click "Review and Launch," and review the settings.
- Click "Launch," and follow key pair instructions, then launch your instance.
- In the AWS Console, wait for your instance to indicate a state of running. It may take up to ten (10) minutes for initial configuration before you can connect to your EC2 using your browser and the public DNS provided by Amazon.
- Access your EC2 with your browser using https://<public_DNS_provided_by_Amazon> and accept the server's self signed certificate. Login information: username:administrator and password:is the EC2 instance Id. NOTE: If you encounter '502 Bad Gateway' errors please follow the instructions provided in the above documentation.
Resources
Support
Vendor support
Blackboard provides operational support and documentation for the Blackboard Learn for REST and LTI Developers AMI at https://docs.blackboard.com/rest-apis/learn/sandbox/developer-ami . REST API documentation is provided via the Blackboard Developer Portal (https://developer.blackboard.com ). Additional support is available at the Blackboard Community Site (https://community.blackboard.com ). Learn documentation for managing LTI integrations is provided on https://help.blackboard.com .
AWS infrastructure support
AWS Support is a one-on-one, fast-response support channel that is staffed 24x7x365 with experienced and technical support engineers. The service helps customers of all sizes and technical abilities to successfully utilize the products and features provided by Amazon Web Services.
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Customer reviews
After Launch this instance, facing "Invalid Host Error" in the root url
Getting Error in the root URL. I am unable to access blackboard. Please let me know what I need to do to fix this issue.
{
"code": "400",
"message": "Invalid Host error"
}
Got it to work
I was able to get this to work by precisely following the Usage Instructions on the Marketplace page (ignoring the first step that links out to a 404 webpage) and using Firefox as my selected browser from my Mac. It would be nice to have an idea of how outdated this version of Blackboard is, since it seems a bit old.
Blackboard SSL configuration using Lets Encrypt failed - poor instructions and documentation
When you launch this on AWS the Blackboard SSL configuration does not work out of the box. There are number of other steps mentioned that have to be completed in this article
https://docs.blackboard.com/dvba/developer-ami
The instructions and documentation are unclear or incomplete and the support offered poor and very few responds on the community site. You spend more time trying to fix this as opposed to actual development.
Avoid and try something else
Crashes
The app throws bad gateway notices at least twice a week. There is no support for the app. There is no error reporting for the app.
application won't start
the box deploys, i get to the point to accept the self-signed cert, and then the page just spins.
the application never loads.