SKY Reporting Is Now Available!
We have good news! SKY Reporting, our premier way to assess your school's overall performance and effectiveness via customizable graphs and charts, is now available for all Blackbaud ID powered schools! Come learn more!
SKY Reporting enables your school to view prebuilt dashboards and create custom dashboards with your choice of graphs and charts. These enable to you quickly assess your school's overall performance and effectiveness each time you glance at the data. Add your own filters to custom dashboards or select a data point to drill in for details. You can even export pre-configured dashboards for use in Microsoft Excel.
Environment administrators at your school can also select a link from Dashboard Builder for a free trial of Insight Designer, which enables you to create customized insights using measures (numerical data) and attributes (like time).
TIP: Check out the What’s New letter for January 19, 2021. We’ve added more preconfigured Insights available to schools who use Enrollment management. Find them in the Admission category when you use Dashboard builder.
Find It
This appears as a new option called Analysis in the main navigation menu (just like Faculty, Core, Academics, etc.) if you’re logged in with Blackbaud ID and have security access to dashboards.
Authentication & Security
Dashboard viewers need to authenticate with Blackbaud ID and must have security access to view or use dashboards.
For reporting users who already logged in via Blackbaud ID before their school received these features, we automatically migrated their security roles and access for SKY Reporting. These users can now view dashboards in the new Education area.
If your school hasn’t started using Blackbaud ID yet, a platform manager can view their Home page in Core to see a tile with information about Blackbaud ID adoption for SKY Reporting users.
- From Core, use the People finder to go to these user’s profiles and view their Access tab.
- Under Log In Information, select Connect to Blackbaud ID.
- Enter the email address that will become the username for Blackbaud ID.
- Select Yes to send the user an email invitation.
- Select Save.
- When the user follows the link in their email invitation, they’ll set a password and switch to the new authentication method using their email address as their username.
- A user who is platform manager and environment admin should log in with Blackbaud ID.
- Select Core.
- Select Home.
- Under Tasks, select Go to Education area.
- Select Control panel.
- Select Security.
- Enable a user to view dashboards, create dashboards, create insights, and more.
TIP: Not sure who your organization admin is? Need to update your school’s admin? Follow these troubleshooting tips from the Customer Support Knowledgebase.
Collaborate
Consider joining our online forum specifically for Dashboard Builder and Insight Designer. There, you’ll find additional info about how to get started, can discuss best practices with your peers at other schools, and learn more ways get the most out of these powerful tools. Log in with your Blackbaud ID at https://community.blackbaud.com/forums/viewcategory/580
Live Classes
In addition to online help documentation, Blackbaud University also offers 90-minute instructor-led classes.
Consider registering for the “Reporting” course if you're interested in Dashboard Builder and Insight Designer.
For a full list of training classes, descriptions of classes, and links to register, review the K-12 Training Datasheet (PDF). Classes begin in mid-January 2021. If a class is full, join the wait list, which we use to plan additional sessions.
Reminder: Navigation
You’ll find Dashboard Builder (Sky Reporting) under Analysis, which is found in the main navigation menu accessed via the “hamburger” icon (three horizontal lines). This is the same menu you use to go to Core, Academics, etc. You must log in with Blackbaud ID and have security access to go to Analysis.
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To configure each user’s security access for SKY Reporting:
Analysis is listed in neither my Education area nor school environment. Any other advice? Thanks!
Customer Support Knowledgebase:
- Who are the site admins (organization administrators) for my organization at Blackbaud.com ?https://kb.blackbaud.com/articles/Article/189445
- I need to become an Organization Administrator https://kb.blackbaud.com/articles/Article/43910
If you're an organization/environment admin, you'll be able to log in to www.blackbaud.com, select Education, Control panel, and then Security (without having to go through Core, Home, Tasks - Go to the Education area) to configure people's security access for Sky Reporting. If you don't see Control panel, you probably need to become an environment admin.Throughout the Education area, you'll probably notice that your top navigation will be a gray bar. Whereas when you aren't in the Education area, your top navigation menu will be in your school colors (Blackbaud's "school color" is green in the screen shots).
Analysis will also appear on the right side of the Education area top navigation menu (grey navigation menu).
Whereas if you're in menu that's your school colors, like Core, then Analysis will be in in the "hamburger" menu (left side in the screenshot with the green menu) and when you select Analysis from there you'll be transported to the gray menu Education area version of Analysis.