Qwickly Attendance: Photo Integration – Qwickly

Qwickly supports accessing photos that you are already hosting via a web service, statically, or straight from the LMS. The Photo Integration settings can be found by going to Qwickly Dashboard > Manage Attendance > Settings > Photos

Enable LMS Avatars:

When enabled this option allows Qwickly Attendance to use the avatars of students that have been uploaded to the LMS. (Only Available in Canvas and Blackboard currently)
How to add a profile picture in Canvas: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Student-Guide/How-do-I-add-a-profile-picture-in-my-user-account-as-a-student/ta-p/518
How to add a profile picture in Blackboard Ultra: https://help.blackboard.com/Learn/Student/Ultra/About_You/Profile

Manually Configure Student Photos:

This option allows institutions to link an existing photo database into Qwickly Attendance.
Qwickly does NOT store photos.

Photostore URL:

This is the URL from which photos will be accessed.
The URL should be written exactly as it would be if accessing the photos from an outside source, including any necessary API key.
The student identifier [discussed below] will replace the text string [identifier] in the URL, [identifier should be placed literally in the URL where you would like the student identifier to appear.
For example: https://studentphotostore.com/photos/?key=1234567&studentId=[identifier]
You may be hosting the images statically, in which case the URL may look more like this: https://studentphotostore.com/photos/[identifier]photo.jpg.

Student Identifier:

This is the field in the user data that is used in place of [identifier] in the Photostore URL.
There are various possible fields that can be used as an identifier. If you need to use a custom identifier, please contact Qwickly Support.

Optional Encryption:

You may elect to encrypt the identifier passed in the URL.
Currently, you may select from no encryption or AES encryption (If encryption is preferred, contact Qwickly Support to get it set up)
If you would like to use a different kind of encryption for your identifier, please contact Qwickly support.

Test Image:

This is where you can test to see if the integration is working correctly.
In the provided field, type a student identifier of the correct type into the text field and then save the settings.
An image next to this field will use the previous settings and attempt to display from the photostore, including any encryption set.
If you see the correct image for the provided identifier here, then you have successfully set up the integration!

Turn on the integration:

Now that everything is set up correctly, click the on/off toggle next to the heading and set it to on to enable the Photo Integration option.
Launch Qwickly Attendance from an LMS course and click the sync roster button then photos should start appearing next to student's names in Qwickly Attendance immediately!