I'm curious, are third-party building blocks allowed to be installed on MH environments?
Example: OSCELOT Projects > Projects > Grade Column Manager > News > Edit News
And while on that, as far as SaaS goes, the level 2 plan (Forgot what it's called - Advantage?) can install 3rd party building blocks, correct?
Message was edited by: John Scognamiglio
Yes, you can install third party B2s on Managed Hosting environments.
Great help as always Mike, thanks.
The Saas Plus and Saas Advantage options allow Blackboard to install custom B2s on your behalf. Further information outlining the Saas options can be found here: Learn SaaS Plus and Advantage Options - Blackboard Help
We have been testing SaaS Advantage, and Blackboard recently enabled us to upload 3rd party Building Blocks ourselves directly to the SaaS environment via the System Admin panel, just as we were previously able to do in our MH environment.
There are some limitations to what B2's are allowed to do under SaaS that will force a rewrite for some tools. Here are details: Preparing Your Building Blocks For Learn SaaS and Newer Learn Versions . In testing we have found that some of the Oscelot tools we use do not work in the SaaS environment (e.g Sign-up List Tool, Oscelot, http://goo.gl/5EahfF )
Chris did you use the Grade Column Manager Tool in SAAS? We have a request for that specific tool, but we are moving to SAAS in 3 months. I don't want to install something new that will not migrate.
Hi Katie,
Yes we are using the Grade Column Manager tool in SaaS, and it is working for us (batch create, batch delete).
The only thing I should mention is while Blackboard did briefly allow us to upload our own B2's to the SaaS environment, they have now pulled that functionality, and we can no longer upload our own B2's. Now, in order to install a 3rd party B2, we have to send a request to Blackboard support and they upload it for us, which causes delay.
We hope Blackboard will restore B2 management functionality to the higher SaaS tier-service customers at some point.
Thanks Chris, I have asked them to install it on our SAAS test, but that sounds quite promising!
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Yes, you can install third party B2s on Managed Hosting environments.