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Exposing folder association to Blackboard Course_ID via API

Toby NuttingToby Nutting Tyro
edited February 2022 in API

Hello,

I'm not a developer so please bear with me. We currently schedule our lecture recordings directly into the folder associated with the linked Blackboard course and we do this by searching on the folder name that matches the course name but unfortunately, these are not constants. We've had situations where course names change, users change folder names or our latest one (which is kind of our fault) where the match was being made incorrectly with a very similarly named folder). It gets messy.

Instead, we'd like to do this against Course_ID which is distinct, doesn't change and both systems already know and our adapter can query.

Maybe there is a way to do this or a better way for us to be handling it but this seems like a logical approach?

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    Hiroshi OhnoHiroshi Ohno Panopto Employee
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    That is in our long-term roadmap, but I do not have any concrete schedule at this time.

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    Chaz BarbourChaz Barbour Superstar

    I wish there was. I don't think those fields are something which can be queried via the API and they also don't appear in any reports.

    If I want to be sure I'm in the right Panopto folder when scheduling, I go into the course in the LMS and click on the Panopto tool. Then I either get the folder's GUID (so I can verify it matches where I think I'm supposed to be scheduling it) or I just open the folder in a new window and schedule the recordings there.

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    Hiroshi OhnoHiroshi Ohno Panopto Employee

    Toby,

    Thank you for asking the question. Do you use Blackboard classic integration (i.e. building block) or Blackboard ultra integration? These use different mechanism internally.

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    Toby NuttingToby Nutting Tyro

    Hello Hiroshi,

    We are full ultra. No B2 for us.

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    Hiroshi OhnoHiroshi Ohno Panopto Employee

    Toby,

    Panopto stores Blackboard's primary course ID (format of _123_1) as a metadata associated to the course folder.

    You may query Panopto folder with that format of course ID by SOAP API ISessionManagement.GetAllFoldersWithExternalContextByExternalId method (link: https://support.panopto.com/resource/APIDocumentation/Help/html/9c5dee30-5f12-7aa9-91b3-4e789ed06c0b.htm).

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    Toby NuttingToby Nutting Tyro

    Thanks, Hiroshi. Any word on when/if this will come to your REST APIs?

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