Betty Blocks
Betty Blocks is the low code platform vendor for the university. It is a stand-alone application development platform intended to empower the collaboration of non-IT, business centric staff with professional software developers to build applications of various scale and complexity.
Want to get started using Betty Blocks?
This page is meant to help you determine if Betty Blocks training is right for you.
Training considerations
Before diving into learning the Betty Blocks platform, please review the following prerequisites and course commitments.
Is Betty Blocks the right tool for you?
- Review the complexity matrix to help determine if the platform will meet your needs
Are you able to meet the requirements to build an application?
- Based on our initial experience, the ideal candidates for building their own application should have some development background
- Complete the attestation for the terms of service and conditions of use
- Complete the training outlined below
Are you ready for the commitment to training?
- Training for developers will cover:
- Betty Blocks essentials
- Common tasks
- Advanced tasks
- Building production applications
- Moving applications to production
- Training will be:
- For individuals:
- Online self-paced
- For teams/groups wishing to complete training together:
- Completed in cohorts of 5 people maximum with a developer from the Low Code Solutions service team assigned to each cohort
- Comprised of 5-8 hours per week of self-study in addition to two one-hour office hour sessions per week with your assigned developer
- Expected to last 4-6 weeks depending on the cohort’s speed
- Providing you with the knowledge to add low and medium complexity features to your application with little to no additional assistance
- For individuals:
Learning pathways
Betty Blocks essentials training path
Learn the platform essentials to start building your application today.
- Intro to Betty Blocks and My Betty Blocks
- Model theory and building models in Betty Blocks
- Models and relationships
- Design and page builder theory
- Design and build your first pages
- Showing and creating data
- Detail pages
- Intro to interactions
- Intro to actions
- Actions 201: email, pdfs and expressions
Betty Blocks advanced training path
After completing the essentials, build on your knowledge with advanced concepts and functionalities.
Prerequisites: Betty Blocks essentials training path
- Actions 301: Advanced expressions, Liquid and more
- Advanced models and relationships
- Advanced page builder techniques
Platform enhancement requests
A list of enhancement requests that have been submitted by Low Code Solutions to Betty Blocks and are not yet completed.
Completed platform enhancement requests
A list of enhancement requests submitted by Low Code Solutions that have been completed by Betty Blocks.
If you want to start training or have more questions, please fill out the customer support form and a Low Code Solutions team member will respond to your request.