Blackboard Learn — University of Otago tenancy

The University's learning management system runs on Anthology Blackboard Learn at blackboard.otago.ac.nz, which CNAMEs to otago.blackboard.com and on to AWS ap-southeast-2. The tenancy, roster and course content are Otago's; the API contract is Blackboard's. Newly recorded in the 2026-08-30 run — the June profile did not find it. Probed 2026-08-30: /learn/api/public/v1/system/version answers keyless with {"learn":{"major":4000,"minor":21,"patch":0,"build":"rel.28+435d029"}}, and every data-bearing endpoint returns HTTP 401 with {"status":401,"message":"API request is not authenticated."} — confirmed on /learn/api/public/v1/courses, /learn/api/public/v1/dataSources and /learn/api/public/v3/courses. A 401 rather than a 404 is the evidence the API exists and is gated. The baseURL below records the API base, not a callable document: a bare GET to /learn/api/public/v1 returns 400, as Blackboard does on every deployment. Credentials are REST application keys are issued only by Otago administrators. NO LTI CONFORMANCE IS CLAIMED: /.well-known/openid-configuration returns HTTP 200 but its body is Blackboard's login.jsp HTML page, a soft-200 rather than an OIDC discovery document. Blackboard's contract is not stored here.

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apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: university-of-otago:blackboard-learn
name: Blackboard Learn — University of Otago tenancy
x-operator: tenant
description: 'The University''s learning management system runs on Anthology Blackboard Learn at blackboard.otago.ac.nz,
  which CNAMEs to otago.blackboard.com and on to AWS ap-southeast-2. The tenancy, roster and course content
  are Otago''s; the API contract is Blackboard''s. Newly recorded in the 2026-08-30 run — the June profile
  did not find it. Probed 2026-08-30: /learn/api/public/v1/system/version answers keyless with {"learn":{"major":4000,"minor":21,"patch":0,"build":"rel.28+435d029"}},
  and every data-bearing endpoint returns HTTP 401 with {"status":401,"message":"API request is not authenticated."}
  — confirmed on /learn/api/public/v1/courses, /learn/api/public/v1/dataSources and /learn/api/public/v3/courses.
  A 401 rather than a 404 is the evidence the API exists and is gated. The baseURL below records the API
  base, not a callable document: a bare GET to /learn/api/public/v1 returns 400, as Blackboard does on
  every deployment. Credentials are REST application keys are issued only by Otago administrators. NO
  LTI CONFORMANCE IS CLAIMED: /.well-known/openid-configuration returns HTTP 200 but its body is Blackboard''s
  login.jsp HTML page, a soft-200 rather than an OIDC discovery document. Blackboard''s contract is not
  stored here.'
humanURL: https://blackboard.otago.ac.nz/
baseURL: https://blackboard.otago.ac.nz/learn/api/public/v1
tags:
- Learning Management
- Blackboard
- Anthology
- Tenant
- Gated
- Education
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developer.anthology.com/portal/displayApi
- type: BaseURL
  url: https://blackboard.otago.ac.nz/learn/api/public/v1
- type: Examples
  url: examples/university-of-otago-blackboard-version-response.json
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/university-of-otago-authentication.yml