Blackbaud’s Education Management Solutions: What’s New For May 23, 2023 9052

Blackbaud’s Education Management Solutions: What’s New For May 23, 2023

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Here are the latest changes, updates, and new features for the Education management products for May 23, 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.
Platform managers can now also access this help topic from the Tasks section of their Home page in Core.

Academics

Assignment abbreviations no longer required

With this release, an Abbreviation is no longer required when adding an assignment or graded discussion. Teachers can continue to add abbreviations if they wish, and they can choose to display abbreviations or full assignment names in their gradebook settings.

To update gradebook settings:
  1. Launch the gradebook
  2. Select More > Settings.
  3. In Display options, select Use assignment titles or Use abbreviations.
  4. Select Save.

Copy learning profiles

The 360 Academic Profile now includes the option to copy a pre-filled learning profile for a student from one academic year to the next.
On a student’s profile, open the Performance tab and find the Learning profiles tile. Select the context menu () beside an existing learning profile, then Copy learning profile. This opens the Add learning profile modal with fields filled in based on the previous profile. The following fields are not copied over: Start on date, End on date, and Publish selections (I.e., Ready or Not ready).
Make any changes, then select Save.


Core

Roles and tasks - Join the early adopter program (EAP)

Earlier this year, we released a new interface for the list of Roles managing security roles and tasks in Core. The new interface enables platform managers to quickly view the status of each role, the number of members, whether multi factor authentication (MFA) is enforced, the number of reports associated with the role and its tasks, and what base role was used to create each cloned role. You can also manage the role, clone roles, and select to enforce MFA from the new roles list.

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As of May 23, 2023 schools can contact their Blackbaud account representative to ask to join an early adopter program (EAP) that even more significantly enhances the experience for managing role and role membership.

The new EAP experience includes detailed descriptions of the features and data that each role and task enables users to access. Related tasks are also organized into domains.

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Additionally, when platform managers view a role, they’ll see a comprehensive list of reports that correspond to the role and its tasks.
When they clone an existing role, they can enable and disable tasks in bulk for the new role. You can also enable and disable tasks in bulk when you edit a role your school previously created.


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When they clone an existing role, they can enable and disable tasks in bulk for the new role. You can also enable and disable tasks in bulk when you edit a role your school previously created.

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The user interfaces to manage role members and view an audit history of each role have also been modernized. The data now appears in an interactive SKY style of list.

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Like similar lists throughout Blackbaud Education Management, you can search these lists, select which columns of data to view, filter the list to limit results, sort data by selecting a column header, and reorder columns by dragging and dropping the column headers.

To learn more or for instructions about using the new EAP features, view the online help.


Enrollment management

Event Registration Form Builder

When creating an Event Registration form, the Candidate Block is now required and will generate an error if the field is left out completely. By making candidate information required, it not only avoids any potential confusion or issues that may occur with a parent-only registration form, but it also forms a relationship that can be established back to a candidate record.


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.

Subscribe to “What’s New”

To receive email notifications when the What’s new update appears, make sure to subscribe to the K12 community’s blog by logging into the community site and selecting the Subscribe button.
To manage your community subscriptions:
  1. Log into the community and locate your name and profile picture in the upper right corner.
  2. Select the drop-down arrow and select My Account.
  3. From the My Account page, select the Subscriptions tab and scroll down to the Blogs section.
  4. Locate Blackbaud K-12 Education solutions Blog. If you want to be notified as soon as the What’s new content goes live on the community, select the Instant option. You can also opt for Daily and Weekly notifications.
  5. 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 Education Solutions™ Blog 05/22/2023 2:03pm EDT

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