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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.
Set up beacons
Set up beacons at the desired locations at your institution.

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 beacons

Set up beacons at the desired locations at your institution.

Supported beacons

Ellucian Mobile works with beacons that use the iBeacon standard. However, Ellucian’s testing indicates that some iBeacon-compliant beacons support Ellucian Mobile location-aware features better than others. For best results, test with your selected beacon hardware before purchasing large quantities. Ellucian has tested with beacons from the following vendors:

RECO
Kontakt.io
Estimote
Radius Networks Radbeacons

Best practices for beacon setup

Use the procedures provided by your beacon provider to set up beacons. Ellucian recommends the following setup best practices for beacons that are used with Ellucian Mobile:

Adjust the signal strength of each beacon based on the desired distance at which Ellucian GO users will receive a notification. Ellucian GO notifications are based on the "far" distance range, using the near/intermediate/far ranges defined for iBeacons.
If practical, adjust the signal strength of each beacon so that beacon signals do not overlap. Overlapping signals might cause unpredictable behavior of location-aware Ellucian Mobile features.
Recommended identifier setup:
- UUID - Use a single UUID for all beacons at your school.
- Major ID - Use a single major ID for all beacons that support module launching.
- Minor ID - Use a different minor ID for each beacon that supports module launching.

Note: To support Ellucian Mobile, major and minor IDs must be between 0 and 32767, even though the beacon design might permit larger numbers.