Is it just me?

Priscilla Lopez

Hi, Is it just me or has the recent updates been a bit lacking in what is really requested in Ideas? Also where are this year's product road maps? 

Scott Chrysler

Priscillia -

It is possible the Whipple Hill Wednesdays have been lighter, but I believe they have really been focusing on enhancements that are improving the teacher/student experience in assessments/assignments and other distance learning necessities. A release over the weekend is unprecedented, and last weekend's implemented several key enhancement ideas that have been on the board for literally years. Though I am not a coder, I am confident that for some of those enhancements to roll out there is a whole lot more behind the scenes that needs to adjusted and re-worked. I have appreciated their efforts.


Scott

Jackie Christensen

Hi Priscilla, 


Perfect timing! We actually have Product Updates scheduled for next week, on Thursday, April 23rd at 2pm eastern. You can sign up for the Education Management one, as well as the other Blackbaud products you may be interested in from this one form:

https://hello.blackbaud.com/productupdates-Americas.html 


Due to the shift to distance learning and our schools depending on our solutions now more than ever, we are trying to strike the balance between minimizing potential disruption with being responsive to feedback. As Scott mentioned, we did a special release of some Assessment improvements for Teachers and Students over the weekend and plan on some more distance learning enhancements in the upcoming weeks that will close out over 650 community forum votes. You can read about them here https://k12hub.blackbaud.com/coronavirus-resources/distance-learning-enhancements-coming-to-blackbaud-lms


For some of our other larger Roadmap initiatives, we are going to be conservative and hold back on releasing until the summer. Knowing that many of our main school contacts don't have a lot of bandwidth to absorb change management activities right now. But we'll review it all during next week's update. Keep in mind, you should register to get the on demand recording even if you can't attend the live session. 


If you can't wait till next week, we did have mini product updates rolled into our Admissions and Academics Virtual Meet-Ups this week. You can view those recordings here. https://k12hub.blackbaud.com/recorded-webinars 


Hope that helps! 

Jackie