If you’ve ever wondered how to get more from the Blackbaud SKY API for K-12 Schools—or wanted inspiration from peers using it in creative, practical ways—you won’t want to miss this special Ask the All-Stars event! This week, from June 24 through June 26, we’re hosting two of our most engaged and knowledgeable community…
I write all of the programs that access the SKY API in Visual Basic. I use the SKYLib•Net library from Protege Solutions. It handles a lot of the ugly details so that I can focus on the data. You can download the library and an example program at the Protege website. https://protege.com.au/skylib The download is free and…
Many of the programs I wrote that use the Blackbaud School API also use APIs for other services. That allows me to extract information from the SIS and use it to update other systems or files. One of the most useful projects is the People Lists spreadsheet. We’re a Google school so we have many files shared to employees.…
Greetings, I am new to using API's. I was wondering if there is an API that I can use to scan a student ID badge and the information would then check a student as present for attendance. Can you point me in the correct direction? Thanks I appreciate the help.
I admittedly am a novice in the subject, and lean on different integrations and outside sources to access API data, sooooo… What would you recommend to get started, and what you think may have the biggest impact for that initial effort? We leverage the total school solution with BB and have access to the Microsoft…
We’re excited to kick off our Ask the All-Stars session— featuring Brian Gray, technology systems administrator at St. Stephen’s Episcopal School, and Lauren Henderson, Blackbaud implementation and configuration consultant at Phillips Academy Andover. Over the next few days (June 24-26) these experienced API power users…
All-Stars Brian Gray and Lauren Henderson are answering your questions around APIs for K-12 Schools.
I reported an error yesterday that I believe is an issue on Blackbaud's end but wanting to see if anyone else has ran into this issue now or in the past. I've been scheduling for 5 years in BB so I'm familiar and know and verified with the Blackbaud support agent there are no conflicts but when I open my master schedule…
Does anyone know how (or if it's possible…) to make courses visible for students without letting them see what periods of the day their classes are? I'd really like to release student courses (so they know what summer work they need to do) but our course schedule may change, so I don't want students to necessarily see what…
We create our IEPs outside Blackbaud and use Docusign to have parents sign them. If we started using Learning Profiles, is there a place for parents to sign off on them? I didn’t see this indicated anywhere in documentation so my impression was that there isn’t.
I've started using the new Internal Notes feature, which does seem like it will be a very useful function for our office. Does anyone know if it's possible to export Internal Notes? I was not able to find anything in Reports. I did some minimal digging in Advanced Lists, but couldn't find anything.
We have transcripts from previous years that are not showing up on the transcript. This is our first year using BB so we had to manually input the information. We set up the courses, set up the grading plans, and offered the courses, but we still get a transcript that says there is no data to display. We have used the chat…
We currently have it set up like this. Our school has 2 semesters / 4 quarters. Currently, each quarter has its own separate grade, and the final Semester 1 grade is an average of Q1 + Q2—for example, a student might have Quarter 1: C, Quarter 2: A, and then the Semester 1 grade is a B (average of Q1/Q2). However we'd like…
Is there a report to run in Blackbaud to find students who are repeating a course they already have credit for? Other than looking at transcripts (which would be tedious), I couldn't find a way. Thanks for your help!
Hello, if my question is in the wrong place I apologize in advance. I am tasked with figuring out Blackbaud for my K-12 school this summer before we roll it out in the fall. I have the role of both admin and a teacher. I've been playing around with creating a course, and then creating classes for that course. So when I go…
We use official notes for our faculty to enter notes for "Grade Alerts" & "Course Planning". I'd like to add a note type for an admin to use but not be available for a general faculty member in the dropdown when they click "Add Official Note". Example: an Official note type of "Needs Status" where I can import a group of…
Here is a dilemma faced by our Physics teacher. Is there a solution of which I am not aware? "For my AP Physics class, I always allow students to drop a certain number of homework assignments each semester, and in the grade calculation, you can specify the number of dropped assignments for each category. However, when I…
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