specification: API Commons Rate Limits
specificationVersion: '0.1'
schema: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/interface-research/main/schema/api-commons.yml#/$defs/RateLimits
provider: Blackboard
providerId: blackboard
created: '2026-05-08'
# Provenance stamped 2026-08-11: this artifact was written by the API Evangelist
# bulk sweep dated 2026-05-08, not harvested from the provider. See roadmap#35.
method: generated
modified: '2026-05-08'
reconciled: false
tags:
- EdTech
- LMS
- Learning Management
- Rate Limiting
- Quotas
- Throttling
description: Blackboard Learn REST API has documented per-app rate windows (commonly 50,000 calls/day
  per integration in cloud deployments) but specific values vary by deployment and tier. Self-hosted instances
  are operator-configured.
notes: Confirm exact thresholds in your deployment's Anthology Developer documentation.
sources:
- https://developer.blackboard.com/portal/displayApi
responseCodes:
  throttled: 429
limits:
- name: Default Learn REST
  scope: application
  metric: requests
  limit: deployment-specific (commonly daily quotas)
  notes: Honor 429 responses; cache aggressively.
policies:
- name: Backoff Strategy
  description: Clients should implement exponential backoff with jitter and honor any Retry-After header.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com