Blackbaud’s Education Management Solutions: What’s New For May 16, 2023

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Here are the latest changes, updates, and new features for the Education management products for May 16, 2023.

Learning resources

Annual procedures

As the end of the academic year news, admins should prepare to complete their annual procedures. To get started, view the online help.
Soon, platform managers will also be able to access this help topic from the Tasks section of their Home page in Core.

Academics

Student attendance status list

This week, we will be releasing a new Student attendance statuses list to help attendance managers quickly determine which students are present for the day and, if class attendance is taken, to help locate those students on campus.
From the Home page in Academics, go to the Find me now tile. You will see a new link that takes you to the Student attendance statuses list. This list displays all students within a School Level, alongside their current attendance Status (Present, Absent, or Awaiting class attendance), Current obligation, Previous obligation, and Next obligation.
You can filter this list based on Status or search for students by name. The list shows each student’s status based on their most recent or current obligation that records attendance.

Core

Configure a custom text/message for “Login page information” and privacy

Platform managers can customize various messages and labels throughout Blackbaud Education Management. Do this from Core, Settings, Custom labels & text, Custom text messages.
Previously, one of the items you could edit was called Sign in help/Request login. This item is now called Login page information.
We’ve also updated the description that helps you determine what to enter for this item.

“Enter text that will appear in a pop-up when a user selects More information from the login page. Consider including information required for compliance with privacy laws. Consult your legal resources and visit docs.blackbaud.com/privacy for additional details.”

For example, consider adding a hyperlink to your school’s privacy policy.
Additionally, the phrase “Login help” previously appeared above your message when users viewed your custom content. Now, when your message appears, the header “Login help” does not appear above it.

Configure custom text/labels for “Login page settings”

Authentication rules has been renamed. This feature is now called Login page settings instead. Platform managers will continue to access it from the same location in Core, Security, Authentication settings.
You’ll use this page to enable or disable the More information link that appears on the login page. If the link is enabled, the custom message you previously configured for the Login page information will appear.
You can also edit the label for the link. For example, you could change “More information” to “Login and privacy info.”
Finally, you can edit the label for the Blackbaud ID Username field. For example, you could change it to “Email address.”

Configure a custom text/message for “Privacy settings”

Platform managers can also configure a customized message that will appear above each user’s Privacy setting page. It appears under the heading for Privacy settings and above the heading for General settings.
We recommend you use this message to hyperlink users to your school’s privacy policy and any other information needed to comply with privacy laws. Consult your legal resources and visit the online help for more information.

API and Integrations

School API and OneRoster API

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

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Scroll to the end of the page and select Save changes.

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.

News Blackbaud K-12 Solutions™ Blog 05/15/2023 12:24pm EDT

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