LMS automation

1. DevCon20 Presentation
Automation in Blackboard using RPA - Report Generation

2. About me
Lecturer with INTI International College and
Universities, Malaysia.
Faculty Resource Person to address issues on
Blackboard for over 7 years.
Dad, passionate about teaching and learning.
Love to travel.
Exposure to RPA quite recent. Became quite
intrigued and tried out various tools.

3. I have a dream..

4. Forward-Looking Statement
Statements regarding product development initiatives, including new
products and future product upgrades or enhancements represent our
current intentions, but may be modified, delayed or abandoned without
prior notice and there is no assurance that such an offering, upgrades or
functionality will become available unless they have been made available.

5. DevCon20
Presentation
Contents
What is RPA?
Introduction to RPA
Components of RPA
What makes it work?
The impact of RPA
Transformation of legacy processes
The Scale of Automation
Assisted and Unassisted Automation

6. DevCon20
Presentation
Contents
Automation Tools
Key pioneers and browser based tools
RPA in Action
Sample videos
Benefits of RPA
Surefire advantages of using RPA
Looking Forward
Conclusion

7. What is RPA?
RPA is programming based
robotics (Robotics Process
Automation) that imitates
work that individuals do.

8. RPA is a configurable software tool that uses business rules and sequences of
actions to automatically complete processes in any number of different
applications the same way a human would, with the help of people for exception
management.

9. Components of RPA
CONFIGURABLE
SOFTWARE
BUSINESS RULES SEQUENCES OF
ACTIONS

10. Components of RPA
AUTOMATIC
PROCESSING
DEFINITION
REFERENCES
EXCEPTION
MANAGEMENT

11. The impact of RPA
• Digitizes manual tasks and
transforms legacy processes
• RPA will have an economic impact
of around $6.7 trillion by 2025.
• Osborne and Frey from Oxford
University suggests that 47% of
U.S. jobs could be automated by
2030. Billions($)
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5
10
15
2021
2027
RPA Market Reach
Billions($)

12. The Scale of Automation
Assisted automation – Digital assistant Unassisted automation

13. Let’s get on with it! How do we automate
repetitive tasks on Blackboard?

14. Quick Survey What are some of the repetitive tasks that you
would like to see being automated?
Let me know in the Post-Confererence discussion

15. Automation tools – Dedicated services

16. Automation Tool – Browser (Chrome extension)

17. My motivation and
possibly could be yours.

18. • UI.Vision has great support for web-based
applications as it has a core that is built on
the Selenium framework.
• UI.Vision relies heavily on image and OCR
recognition.
• Could also use OCR by ‘telling’ UI.Vision to
look for the words on the Button and then
UI.Vision will click the words that it finds on
the screen.

19. UI.Vision RPA tool in action

20. Logging into a specific course in BlackBoard
Getting
Started

21. UI.Vision
tool in
action
Generate grade report using RPA

22. Generate grade report using RPA
What’s
happening
in the
background?

23. Running multiple macros using a TestSuite
Combine
different
macros and
run different
instances
- Login

24. Executing multiple macros using a TestSuite
Combine
different
macros and
run different
instances
- Course At
a Glance

25. Alternative – Combining and executing macros at a particular time

26. Benefits of RPA
•
SPEED REDUCE
MISTAKES
REVIEW TRAIL BETTER
EXPERIENCE

27. What’s next?
RPA 2.0

28. Looking Forward
Further experimentation could be done especially in the area of RPA, intelligent automation, and digital
transformation to better enhance the experience of faculty and administrative staff. The use of AI and
machine learning will further enhance faculty and student experience.

32. Credits
• https://unsplash.com/
• https://www.pngguru.com/