PICSWeb can integrate with the bksb system to download functional skills data for your Learners and Applicants. Once the integration is enabled, you can create bksb accounts for and send invites to learners and applicants, then import their most recent assessment results into PICSWeb.

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• Integration Enabled – This will indicate whether or not you have turned on the integration. This can be done from the Settings window explained below.

• Default Password – This is the password given to any new learner and applicant bksb accounts you create from PICSWeb. The first time that the learner or applicant logs in, they will be prompted to change this password.

• Auto Enrol on Courses – If this displays Yes, any new account created in bksb from PICSWeb will be enrolled onto any courses that you have set up for auto-enrolment in bksbLearner Tags – This shows which tags will be applied to learners each time an English, Maths or ICT initial assessment result is imported from bksb. These tags can be set from the Settings window explained below.

• Applicant Tags – This shows which tags will be applied to applicants each time an English, Maths or ICT initial assessment result is imported from bksb. These tags can be set from the Settings window explained below.

Integration Information

The main section of the bksb summary explains how the integration works.

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• Integration Enabled – Once this is ticked, you can begin creating bksb accounts and downloading progression data.

• API Access Key – If you do not know this, please refer to the guidance below.

• API Secret Key – If you do not know this, please refer to the guidance below.

• Default Password – This will be the password given to any new learner and applicant bksb accounts you create from PICSWeb. The first time that the learner or applicant logs in, they will be prompted to change this password.

• Auto Send Login Details – If this is switched on, once a learner or applicant is Uploaded to bksb they will be sent an email containing their login details.

• Auto Enrol on Courses – If this is tickedswitched on, any new account created in bksb from PICSWeb will be enrolled onto any courses that you have set up for auto-enrolment in bksb.

• Download Diagnostic Assessment Results – If this is switched on, diagnostic assessment results will be imported into PICS.

• Log Scheduled Sync API Calls – If this is switched on, sync API calls between PICS and bksb .

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• will be added to your system logs.

• Tags – Here you can choose Tags to add to learners or applicants when their initial assessment results for English, Maths and ICT are imported into PICS for the first time. In each field, you can add multiple tags and select the X icon by an individual tag to remove it from the field.

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Setting Up bksb API

In order to obtain the API Access Key and API Secret Key, you will need your bksb administrator to log in to your bksb URL.

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In this page, also make sure that the Status is set to Enabled and all the Permissions are set to Allow

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