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Set Up Application Modules
Set up the application modules that are displayed in Ellucian GO.
Web Module
You can make any web application available as a menu item in Ellucian Mobile. The web applications should be optimized for use on mobile devices, and must be stored on a publicly available URL.
Optimize your web applications for display within Ellucian GO
Web applications displayed within Ellucian GO can be optimized for display within the app.

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 Application Modules
Set up the application modules that are displayed in Ellucian GO.
- Add an Ellucian module and specify standard settings
  Use this procedure to add an Ellucian application module to Ellucian Mobile and specify the standard settings that apply to all modules. You will also need to specify module-specific settings for most modules.
- Organize the module list
  To help users find the modules that appear in the menu on their devices, you can divide the list into sections and put the sections and modules in any order. The module list in the Cloud Configuration tool reflects the way that sections and modules appear on the devices.
- Audio Module
  Use the Audio module to make audio clips available to users. For example, you can publish an audio clip that contains a message from the school president or your institution's fight song, with or without a static background image.
- Courses Module
  The Courses module allows students and faculty to view information about the courses that they are taking or teaching.
- Directory Module
  The Directory module allows users to search for people at your institution and get contact information for them. You can limit the search to certain groups of people, such as Students and Faculty. You can also control the contact information that is displayed for each person.
- Events Module
  The Events module allows users to view upcoming events on your institution's calendars.
- Feeds Module
  The Feeds module allows users to view news feeds from your institution. Users can view the full text and photos of the news items and share the items with other people. Your institution can have one Feeds module or multiple Feeds modules that focus on different categories of news.
- Grades Module
  The Grades module allows students to view midterm or final grades for all terms that have grades recorded in your information system. (The current term will not appear until midterm grades have been entered.) Users must be signed in to view their grades.
- ILP Module
  Colleague and Banner institutions that use the Ellucian Intelligent Learning Platform (ILP) can make information from supported learning management systems available to students through Ellucian Mobile. With ILP, students can view class assignments, events, and activities on their devices.
- Important Numbers Module
  The Important Numbers module provides users with a directory of important phone numbers and other contact information that you select.
- Maps Module
  The Maps module allows users to view maps of your campuses and get directions. Campus buildings are marked with pins, which users can tap for more information about the building.
- Native App Launcher Module
  Mobile Administrators can add a module that launches a third-party native application from within Ellucian GO on iOS and Android.
- Notifications Module
  The Notifications module allows users to view important messages from your institution.
- Registration Module
  The Registration module allows students to use their device to register for course sections.
- Student Financials Module
  The Student Financials module provides students with their overall balance and the most recent payment transaction information, with an optional link to a payment gateway or additional account information.
- Video Module
  Use the Video module to make video clips available to users. For example, you might have a video to promote a new academic program or an upcoming fine arts event.
- Web Module
  You can make any web application available as a menu item in Ellucian Mobile. The web applications should be optimized for use on mobile devices, and must be stored on a publicly available URL.
  - Set up the Web module
    Set up an instance of the Web module.
  - Optimize your web applications for display within Ellucian GO
    Web applications displayed within Ellucian GO can be optimized for display within the app.
    - Best practices for web application design
      Proper design of the web application simplifies modifying the web application for display within Ellucian GO.
    - JavaScript provided by Ellucian
      Ellucian provides two JavaScript files for use in modifying web application display.
    - Add the JavaScript files to your web application
      Add the styling JavaScript file to your Javascript folder, and reference both the JavaScript library and the styling file from your web application.
    - Modify the style JavaScript file
      The example style JavaScript file is specific to the example dining menu web application. Modify it as required for your web application.
  - Single Sign on to Web Apps
    The Web module in Ellucian Mobile supports single sign on (SSO) to websites that use either Central Authentication Service (CAS) or Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML).
- Partner Modules
  You can add a module in Ellucian Mobile that launches the app of an Ellucian partner from within Ellucian GO. The partner app can be either a native mobile app or web application.
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

Optimize your web applications for display within Ellucian GO

Web applications displayed within Ellucian GO can be optimized for display within the app.

When a web application is launched from Ellucian GO, you can specify whether the web application opens within Ellucian GO or in the device's browser. If you choose to launch within Ellucian GO, you can modify the web application to display appropriately within the mobile app. Examples include:

Use the colors specified in the Cloud Configuration tool in your web application so that it matches the rest of your mobile app.
Suppress the web page header and footer, so that they do not compete with the Ellucian GO header and footer.
Change your web application navigation within the website so that it is clearly different from navigation within Ellucian GO.

The procedures in this section show you how to use a styling JavaScript file to specify the appearance of the web application within Ellucian GO.

Ellucian provides an example "dining menu" web application that includes the changes listed above. See https://mobile.elluciancloud.com/dining-menu-app. View the sample in your browser and then within your mobile app to see the possible changes you can make to your web application. You can start with the example JavaScript file for the dining menu web application and modify it as desired for your web application.

Note: These procedures do not provide details on how the JavaScript code modifies the display. You will need to be familiar with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to understand the JavaScript code in the dining menu example and modify it for your web application.