This script is used to post the same announcement to multiple course sections in Blackboard (bb).
Follow the steps below to get things up and running:
- Download python: https://www.python.org/downloads/
- Add Python directory to the environment path
- Download and install selenium by running the following command:
python -m pip install selenium
- Set your section IDs in the script.
- Run the script using the following command:
python scriptname.py 'announcement subject' 'announcement body formatted (if needed) using html)'
example:
python cspost.py 'Regarding Quiz 2' '<b>Dear students</b> <br/> this is to remind you of today's quiz which will be available at 12 pm. All the best! :)'<br>