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About IPSIS Section Association
IPSIS Section Association is an interface in Brightspace used to manually manipulate relationships between enrollable courses or sections in an SIS and course offerings in Brightspace. Important: D2L is transitioning from IPSIS Section Association to the SIS Course Merge tool. For information about this transition, refer…
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About the LIS v2.0 Adapter
LIS refers to the IMS Global Learning Consortium's Learning Information Services specification. This specification, finalized in Q2 of 2012, has been a joint operation between numerous educational institutions, LMS, and SIS vendors (D2L included), and has been in the making since the original IMS Enterprise specification…
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Using IPSIS handlers
An IPSIS handler is the implementation of one or more business rules that apply to data coming from the Student Information System. Each handler is an implementation of a specific handler interface, which is aligned with actions commonly applied to Learning Platform and Brightspace (ex. Create User or Delete Section). The…
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Access the D2L Standard CSV dashboard
IPSIS Administration is an interface in Brightspace used for configuring and reviewing the status of SIS integrations with Brightspace. Once you set up an integration in IPSIS Administration, a dashboard for that integration becomes available for you to process jobs, view log messages, review the audit log, make changes…
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About D2L Standard CSV
As a product in the Integration Pack for Student Information Systems (IPSIS platform, D2L Standard CSV is a source system that integrates Student Information System (SIS) or Human Resource Information System (HRIS) into Brightspace. It uses simple D2L defined comma separated values (CSV) that extract data from the…
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Manifest
A manifest is required for D2L Standard CSV versions 1.1 and higher. The manifest is a JSON file that announces the version of D2L Standard CSV you are using, the version in the JSON files should match the version of IPSIS to which your CSV outputs are currently aligned. The following data structure is expected in the JSON…
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About IPSIS Integration 1.0 (non-Plug & Play UI)
This page describes the IPSIS Administration dashboard that is accessed through IPSIS Integration 1.0.You can use IPSIS Integration 1.0 to do the following: * Initiate a batch process, which transfers course structure and enrollment data from an external SIS to the Brightspace. * View the status of recently initiated batch…
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LIS configuration checklist
Configuration checklist Step Role Action 1 D2L consultant Organization system administrator Configure IPSIS Platform 2 D2L consultant Enable the IPSIS LIS v2.0 Adapter Tool 3 Organization system administrator D2L consultant Configure LIS endpoints 4 Organization system administrator D2L consultant Configure org unit type…
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Using LIS translators
LIS translators are a way to translate LIS requests into generic IPSIS requests. This allows IPSIS to always use a common language to communicate with Brightspace instead of having LIS (and other standards and proprietary solutions) directly interact Brightspace. This also allows a single set of handlers that can be used…
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About the IPSIS Platform
The Integration Pack for Student Information Systems (IPSIS) platform is an integration platform in Brightspace that provides a user interface to allow you to import information from your organization's information system to Brightspace. Once that information is imported into Brightspace, you can continue to update your…