Blackbaud’s Education Management Solutions: What’s New For June 7, 2022

Derek Nichols

Here are all of the latest changes, updates, and new features for the Education management products for June 7, 2022.

K-12 Community Blog This week, we took a look back at everything that launched and changed in the month of May for the Education management products. Have a look right here. 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. May 2022 April 2022 March 2022 February 2022 January 2022 December 2021

Core

Blackbaud ID: Migrate by July 26

The last day users can log in with legacy usernames and passwords is July 25, 2022. On July 26, all users must log in with Blackbaud ID.
Parents do not need to login with a single sign on (SSO), such as if parents are not part of your school’s domain. They still need to login with Blackbaud ID.

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.

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.

Enrollment management

Contracts

Billing clerks can now edit student financial aid if it hasn't yet been displayed on a contract. If it has, the financial aid information will be locked.

School website

Notifications

Following a recent Gradebook update, we've fixed the Missing Assignment Notification to correctly link to the right student.

API and Integrations

(School) SKY API

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

Mary Revie

Anyone else sign up to receive email notifications when the What's New update appears but not get notified? Perhaps I missed it or don't know where to look but I feel like it should be coming to my email inbox. So far, not liking this change. ?

Paul Mawyer

Same here.

Derek Nichols

Hey Mary! Notifications can be customized to show up at certain intervals like Instant, each Day, or even weekly. I'm wondering if that may be part of the issue? If yours is set to instant, it should email you directly each time a blog post is published otherwise, there are set times when you'll be notified. You can check that by hitting the arrow icon next to the “Subscribe” button from the Tips and Tricks page:

Elizabeth Perron

Hi @Mary Revie, I see you are subscribed to the blog on the backend. I will troubleshoot more, please see my email from the community inbox.

If anyone else is having issues, please email community@blackbaud.com and I am happy to troubleshoot any notification issues.

In harmony,

Elizabeth

Blackbaud Community Manager