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Course Group Events

Blackboard Learn’s Caliper Analytics stream emits a CourseGroupEvent whenever an instructor creates, updates, or deletes a group in a course.

Here is some of the key data that is associated with these events:

CourseGroupEvent

extensions - contains bb:group.users with list of course membership ids in the group

action - Created or Modified or Deleted

Sample Payload

Here is a sample of what a payload might look like:

{
  "sensor": "54b54b42-dd02-42f8-88ed-07bd719bfb7c",
  "sendTime": "2021-01-05T09:37:13.827Z",
  "dataVersion": "http://purl.imsglobal.org/ctx/caliper/v1p1",
  "data": [
    {
      "@context": [
        "http://caliper.blackboard.com/ctx/caliper/v1/Context",
        "http://purl.imsglobal.org/ctx/caliper/v1p1"
      ],
      "type": "http://caliper.blackboard.com/caliper/v1/CourseGroupEvent",
      "id": "54b54b42-dd02-42f8-88ed-07bd719bfb7c",
      "actor": {
        "id": "https://caliper-mapping.cloudbb.blackboard.com/v1/sites/54b54b42-dd02-42f8-88ed-07bd719bfb7c/users/a1165a247b9044dc9730620872d11788",
        "type": "Person",
        "extensions": {
          "bb:user.id": "_12345_1",
          "bb:user.externalId": "54b54b42-dd02-42f8-88ed-07bd719bfb7c"
        }
      },
      "action": "Created",
      "object": {
        "id": "https://caliper-mapping.cloudbb.blackboard.com/v1/sites/54b54b42-dd02-42f8-88ed-07bd719bfb7c/courses/a3fe89604fc6437ea381979569cd6d81/groups/_12345_1",
        "type": "Group",
        "extensions": {
          "bb:group.name": "Team 2"
        },
        "subOrganizationOf": {
          "id": "https://caliper-mapping.cloudbb.blackboard.com/v1/sites/54b54b42-dd02-42f8-88ed-07bd719bfb7c/courses/a3fe89604fc6437ea381979569cd6d81",
          "type": "CourseOffering",
          "extensions": {
            "bb:course.id": "_12345_1"
          },
          "members": [],
          "courseNumber": "BIO-101"
        },
        "members": []
      },
      "eventTime": "2021-01-05T09:37:09.585Z",
      "edApp": {
        "id": "https://caliper-mapping.cloudbb.blackboard.com/v1/sites/54b54b42-dd02-42f8-88ed-07bd719bfb7c/applications/learn",
        "type": "SoftwareApplication"
      },
      "group": {
        "id": "https://caliper-mapping.cloudbb.blackboard.com/v1/sites/54b54b42-dd02-42f8-88ed-07bd719bfb7c/courses/a3fe89604fc6437ea381979569cd6d81/groups/_12345_1",
        "type": "Group",
        "extensions": {
          "bb:group.name": "Team 2"
        },
        "subOrganizationOf": {
          "id": "https://caliper-mapping.cloudbb.blackboard.com/v1/sites/54b54b42-dd02-42f8-88ed-07bd719bfb7c/courses/a3fe89604fc6437ea381979569cd6d81",
          "type": "CourseOffering",
          "extensions": {
            "bb:course.id": "_12345_1"
          },
          "members": [],
          "courseNumber": "BIO-101"
        },
        "members": []
      },
      "membership": {
        "id": "https://caliper-mapping.cloudbb.blackboard.com/v1/sites/54b54b42-dd02-42f8-88ed-07bd719bfb7c/courses/a3fe89604fc6437ea381979569cd6d81/members/a1165a247b9044dc9730620872d11788",
        "type": "Membership",
        "extensions": {
          "bb:course.id": "_12345_1",
          "bb:course.externalId": "BIO-101",
          "bb:user.id": "_12345_1",
          "bb:user.externalId": "54b54b42-dd02-42f8-88ed-07bd719bfb7c"
        },
        "member": {
          "id": "https://caliper-mapping.cloudbb.blackboard.com/v1/sites/54b54b42-dd02-42f8-88ed-07bd719bfb7c/users/a1165a247b9044dc9730620872d11788",
          "type": "Person",
          "extensions": {
            "bb:user.id": "_12345_1",
            "bb:user.externalId": "54b54b42-dd02-42f8-88ed-07bd719bfb7c"
          }
        },
        "organization": {
          "id": "https://caliper-mapping.cloudbb.blackboard.com/v1/sites/54b54b42-dd02-42f8-88ed-07bd719bfb7c/courses/a3fe89604fc6437ea381979569cd6d81",
          "type": "CourseOffering",
          "extensions": {
            "bb:course.id": "_12345_1"
          },
          "members": [],
          "courseNumber": "BIO-101"
        },
        "roles": [],
        "status": "Active"
      },
      "federatedSession": {
        "startedAtTime": "2021-01-05T09:37:09.585Z",
        "id": "https://caliper-mapping.cloudbb.blackboard.com/v1/sites/54b54b42-dd02-42f8-88ed-07bd719bfb7c/sessions/10497B7377117FFD7B5FD7D3EE58227E",
        "type": "LtiSession",
        "name": "10497B7377117FFD7B5FD7D3EE58227E",
        "dateCreated": "2021-01-05T09:37:09.585Z",
        "user": {
          "id": "https://caliper-mapping.cloudbb.blackboard.com/v1/sites/54b54b42-dd02-42f8-88ed-07bd719bfb7c/users/a1165a247b9044dc9730620872d11788",
          "type": "Person",
          "extensions": {
            "bb:user.id": "_12345_1",
            "bb:user.externalId": "54b54b42-dd02-42f8-88ed-07bd719bfb7c"
          }
        }
      },
      "extensions": {},
      "session": {
        "id": "https://caliper-mapping.cloudbb.blackboard.com/v1/sites/54b54b42-dd02-42f8-88ed-07bd719bfb7c/sessions/10497B7377117FFD7B5FD7D3EE58227E",
        "type": "Session"
      }
    }
  ]
}