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Set Up Location-Aware Features
Set up Ellucian Mobile features that are location-aware; that is, based on proximity to a beacon.

Implementation Guide, May 2023, Release 5.6.3
This online help contains comprehensive information about how to install, set up, and maintain Ellucian Mobile.
Ellucian Mobile Overview
Ellucian Mobile, powered by Ellucian Ethos, provides faculty, prospects, students, staff, and other constituents with access to key campus information and services from their mobile devices. This section provides an overview of Ellucian Mobile.
Before You Begin
This section describes some advance preparations that you can make to help your Ellucian Mobile setup process to go as smoothly as possible.
Install Supporting Software
Before you can install the Ellucian Mobile components, there are several prerequisite software components that must be installed. Note that Grails is also required, but does not need to be installed separately because all Grails components that you need are included in the WAR file that you install later.
Install Ellucian Mobile Software
Install the Ellucian Mobile WAR file and perform basic configuration steps.
Set up the Mobile Cloud Configuration System
Set up the Ellucian Mobile Cloud Configuration System. Description of the process for signing from the Ellucian Hub, how to create and enter the configuration settings, and how to specify the SIS credentials.
Manage Users and User Permissions for the Mobile Cloud Configuration System
You can give selected people access to modify specific elements of your mobile configurations, such as user management, configuration management, branding, or sending push notifications.
Customize the Appearance of Ellucian GO
Set up the home screen, select background and text colors, and set up the About screen.
Set Up Location-Aware Features
Set up Ellucian Mobile features that are location-aware; that is, based on proximity to a beacon.
- Set up beacons
  Set up beacons at the desired locations at your institution.
- Add a beacon definition to Ellucian Mobile
  Create a beacon definition. After defining a beacon here, you can use it in location-aware Ellucian Mobile features.
Set Up Application Modules
Set up the application modules that are displayed in Ellucian GO.
Test and Publish a Configuration
To view your configuration on a device, you must place the configuration into test status. When you are ready to make your configuration available in the public list of institutions on Ellucian GO, you publish the configuration.
Analyze Usage
The Google Analytics Platform lets you measure user interactions across various devices and environments. You can use Google Analytics to view detailed usage statistics of your school's Ellucian Mobile implementation.
Manage Configurations
In addition to the ability to add a new configuration manually, you can create a new configuration by copying an existing one, export configuration information, import configuration information, and migrate a configuration to a different database.
Set up multiple Mobile Integration Server Web Service Apps
If you want to have multiple active configurations at the same time, you need to set up multiple Mobile Integration Server web service apps.
Set up Load Balancing and Redundancy
Multiple Mobile Integration Servers can be set up for a single configuration. This can be done to scale the solution to support more mobile users, or for redundancy. Deployment of multiple Mobile Servers requires a shared data storage using either a Microsoft SQL Server or an Oracle database.
Ellucian Mobile on Wearable Devices
Users can view push notifications on their Android Wear and Apple Watch devices. Users with Apple Watches can also view ILP assignments and maps.
Debugging
Send detailed information from Ellucian Mobile to the log file to support troubleshooting.
Appendices

Set Up Location-Aware Features

Set up Ellucian Mobile features that are location-aware; that is, based on proximity to a beacon.

Location-aware features

Ellucian Mobile location-aware features include:

Application modules can be launched by an Ellucian GO user in response to a notification that appears on the mobile device when the user approaches a beacon. Some examples are provided below.


Feature	Application modules that could support this feature
Provide a “Welcome to Campus” experience when a mobile user enters campus.	Video, Web, Audio
Provide a menu or list of specials when a mobile user passes a dining hall.	Web, Feeds
Provide a bus schedule, or up-to-date bus locations, when a mobile user is at a bus stop.	Web
For a campus tour, provide information about points of interest as the mobile user approaches each one.	Video, Web, Audio
Create a scavenger hunt that provides information when a participant approaches one of the locations.	Video, Web, Audio
Provide information when a mobile user approaches a person of interest on campus. For example: Notify the user when they are near a person they might want to contact, such as their advisor. Provide biographical information about a prominent person, such as your institution’s president. This would require that the person of interest carry a portable beacon.	Video, Web, Audio

Supported devices

The location-aware features of Ellucian GO require:

Android 6.0 or later
For iOS, see https://developer.apple.com/ibeacon/ for more information on iBeacon.

Setup overview

To set up location-aware features, you will do the following:

Set up beacons at the desired locations at your institution. See Set up beacons.
In the Ellucian Mobile Cloud Configuration system, add a definition of each beacon that you want to use with Ellucian Mobile. See Add a beacon definition to Ellucian Mobile.
Set up the location-aware Ellucian Mobile features that use those beacons.