Blackbaud’s Education Management Solutions: What’s New For Aug. 2, 2022

Paul Bowers · August 2022

Here are the latest changes, updates, and new features coming to the Education management products for Aug. 2, 2022.

Higher Education Community Blog

This week, we took a look at Degrees and how managers can bulk add students to specific tracks.

Make sure to read up on all the new blog posts in the community, right here.

What’s Recent

Missed any of our weekly releases? You can catch up on everything in our Month in Review blog posts, which cover every feature and update Education management releases each month.

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Academics

All sections display in Edit Student Enrollment grid

When trying to find a course section in Edit Student Enrollment, if a course has multiple sections in the same scheduling block, all sections will display in the grid.

To see this feature, go to Scheduling, Course selection and schedules, then Student enrollment. Select the pencil icon beside a student’s name to edit their enrollment. Select Find a section.

Now, when a course has multiple sections in the same block, they will all display. Select one of the sections and then Enroll.

In-progress courses reflected in Degree Requirements

For schools that have set up Degree Requirements, the Requirements tab on a student academic profile takes a student’s current in-progress courses into account when calculating the number of credits needed for a Requirement Group.

For example, if a student needs 9 foreign language credits to complete a requirement group, and if that student is currently enrolled in a 3-credit foreign language course, the Requirements tab will indicate that the student needs 6.00 more credits to complete that requirement group. The progress bar near the top of the Requirements tab will still display in-progress and completed credit values.

For more information about setting up and processing degree requirements, see the help topics Requirements and Degree Audit.

Billing management

Payment method column added to Transactions list

Payment method is now available as an optional column on the Transaction list; include Payment method in your list to quickly review which Payment method was used to pay for a charge.

Tuition charge and miscellaneous fee distributions now adjust to prorated schedules

Students enrolled after the beginning of the school year can now have prorated tuition distribution charges automatically applied. The distributions adjust equally based on the remaining number of months after the default starting month. This change applies to Tuition and Miscellaneous fees with Posting procedures set to post over a defined number of months.

If the charge date is the first of a month, that month is included in the set of distributions; if the charge date is after the first day of the month, the set of distributions begins on the first day of the following month.
One distribution is created if the charge date is after the last date in the billing schedule.

Disbursement date now available on Payment processing details

The Disbursement date for payments processed through Blackbaud Merchant Services is now featured on the Processing details section of payments.

Core

Blackbaud ID: Sign in with Apple

Looking for help? Check out the how-to videos on our YouTube channel:

Or view the online help for Blackbaud ID.

Blackbaud ID: Migrate by September 27, 2022

Platform managers can migrate users to Blackbaud ID via the links on the Core home dashboard. They can also export user lists for use in mail merges and other communications.

We’ve extended the deadline to migrate users. Ensure your school’s users are on BBID by September 27, 2022.

Authenticating with Blackbaud ID:

ensures an even more secure authentication process,
enables users to further enhance security by enabling multi-factor authentication through text messages or mobile authenticators,
enables users to login to multiple Blackbaud solutions and support resources with a single username and password,
enables users to login with “social authentication” via Google’s authentication requirements, password resets, and other support needs,
enables users to help themselves reset forgotten passwords, rather than platform managers needing to provide tech support for forgotten passwords,
enables schools to enable an optional SSO for any roles they prefer, so that those users sign in with the school’s identity providers and the school can then manage the users in their claimed domains.

Enforce Blackbaud ID Requirement (Opt-In to EAP)

Platform managers can select to join the early adopter program (EAP) which forces all users to log in with Blackbaud ID (BBID) before it’s required for all schools.

From Core, select Security, select Blackbaud ID authentication, select Enforce Blackbaud ID authentication, and finally select Enforce to confirm you want to join the EAP.

When you enforce BBID, all users, regardless of their security role, will be required to log in with Blackbaud ID.

During the EAP, you can revert and opt out to stop enforcing BBID. However, later this year, it will still be enforced for all schools, all users, and all security roles, as previously announced.

Enrollment management

BBID

When a school has Blackbaud ID enabled for Enrollment management, candidates will now see the updated login experience. If a user selects the forgot your login/first time logging in option, they'll see the sign-in/help message that was added under Core, Settings, Custom Text/Messages, then Sign In Help/Request Login Information.

When creating a new account, we've updated the candidate username field text to email address.

API and Integrations

(School) SKY API

For information about recently added endpoints and updates, view the School API changelog.

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Select the drop-down arrow and select My Account.
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