Blackbaud’s Education Management Solutions: What’s New For July 26, 2022

Derek Nichols · July 2022

Here are all of the latest changes, updates, and new features for the Education Management products for July 26, 2022.

K-12 Community Blog

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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

Diploma date fields

Diploma managers can use the Students list to see the Declared on, Completed on, and Conferred on dates for diplomas.

To see this feature, go to Grades and select Students list. Select Columns to modify which column headers display. Open the dropdown menu that reads “-- all columns--” and select Additional info. The new column options are Conferred on dates, Completed on dates, and Declared on dates. Select Apply changes to add these columns to the Students list. Select a column header to sort the list by the dates in the column.

Billing management (Early Adopter Program)

Generate charges for specific terms and fees

Billing clerks now have greater flexibility and transparency when generating charges, as they are now able to exclusively generate charges for charges that meet any combination of the following specifications:

Billing year and term
- Defaults to the current year and includes all future billing years and terms.
Tuition fees
Required fees

In addition, Billing clerks can assign a Charge date and Due date that apply to all generated charges.

Generate charges from either the Billing management Overview under Receivables or the Recent charges list.

Blackbaud ID: Sign in with Apple

Beginning July 25^th, 2022 users who don’t SSO can select to sign in with Apple authentication by linking their Blackbaud ID to their Apple ID. This “social sign in” is very similar to the existing option to Sign in with Google. Users and schools who already use iOS devices, like MacBooks, may prefer this sign in option.

Users select Sign in with Apple on the login screen, instead of entering their email address as their username for a non-social Sign In.
When users link their Apple ID to their Blackbaud ID, Apple’s configuration appears. Users must select Share my email to ensure they can log in to Education Management and to ensure they receive notifications from the solution.

To learn more, check out the how-to videos on our YouTube channel:

Or view the online help for Blackbaud ID.

Blackbaud ID: Disable Accounts in Bulk

When platform managers review the list of Unregistered users for Blackbaud ID, they can now disable accounts in bulk to prevent the users from logging in. As you migrate users to Blackbaud ID, consider using this to disable users who withdrew as students or who are no longer employed as faculty, if you hadn’t disabled them previously.

From Core, select Security then Blackbaud ID Authentication. The Unregistered tab now appears by default. Use Search and the Filters to locate users. Select one or more users. Then select Disable and confirm you no longer want them to login.

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.

School website

Accessibility

Form field labels are now available inside the School website editor list.
When there is no Long Description present in a news item, the Read More option is now hidden.

Tuition management

Payment Mode

Payment Mode is now available as an optional Additional Field in the Payment Details report. Payment Mode indicates if a payment was made by Checking, Savings, or Credit Card. For Invoice Payments, Payment Mode will display "check". Users can also filter the report by Payment Mode when it is included in the report.

In the Payments Center dashboard, Account Info now includes both the payment type (Phone, Web, In School) and the payment mode.

API and Integrations

(School) SKY API

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

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