The institutional hierarchy is made up of nodes and subnodes forming a structure that helps us organize the resources we have and delegate the administration and management of them.

Nodes can be created one by one, or through an SIS integration.

Once you have your structure created, you can link courses, organizations, users, node administrators to the different nodes.

Creating Nodes Manually

Nodes are very easy to create manually. Go to Admin Panel > Communities > Institutional Hierarchy. Select from the left the node that will contain the one you want to create and then click Create Node. Type the name and click Submit to save.

If you want to move a node to another place in the hierarchy, simply locate it and choose Move from the context menu. On the next screen, choose the node that will become the parent of this one and save.

Creating Nodes Using an Integration

Using Blackboard integration capabilities, we can create and edit nodes in the institutional hierarchy. For this, we will need to create a data integration that receives information at the corresponding endpoint. In this article, you can see where to find the integration endpoints.

These are the minimum data to send, although many other fields can be added. Here is the full list: Snapshot Flat file Header description

• EXTERNAL_NODE_KEY
• PARENT_NODE_KEY
• NAME
• DATA_SOURCE_KEY: if not specified in the file, it will be specified in the data integration configuration.

This would be an example of the contents of an integration file with the minimum fields:

external_node_key|parent_node_key|name
node001|Top|Campus Barcelona
node002|node001|Master’s
noce003|node001|Doctorates

You can also upload files directly to the integration if you need to do it manually occasionally. If you do so, remember to select the appropriate endpoint: Hierarchy Node.