Blackbaud’s Education Management Solutions: What’s New For January 17, 2023

Denise Kadilak · January 2023

Here are the latest changes, updates, and new features for the Education management products for January 17, 2023.

Academics

Gradebook list includes Uncommitted evaluations

We’ve added an Uncommitted evaluations column to the gradebook list. Gradebook Managers can use this column to easily identify classes with outstanding evaluations that still need to be committed.

Student Scroll

Teachers evaluating assignments, graded discussions, and assessments can now scroll the student list independently. This improves the teacher experience in large classes with many students.

Coming soon: New academic profiles

We are planning to roll out a new version of Academic Profiles to all schools in the first quarter of 2023.
Just like the old Academic Profile, the new 360 Profile displays when you select a student or alumnus via the People finder in Academics. The new profile contains the same features and capabilities as the older Academic Profile (plus a few new tools that we’ll show off in the Community post linked below), but arranged under new tab headings in a more accessible format. Depending on your role at the school, some or all of the following profile areas will be available to you.
To see screenshots of the upcoming 360 Profile and an explanation of the new features, check out the announcement in the K-12 Education Solutions Community.

Billing management (Early Adopter Program)

Aging column on Students list now syncs with Aging data from the Overview

The Aging column found on the Students list now uses data procured from Aging on the Billing management overview; Billing clerks must use the Refresh feature found under Aging on the overview to update Aging data in the Student list, particularly when evaluating recent transactions.

Core

Track user “opt out” for targeted ads and information sales

To help schools comply with new privacy laws (USA), this release includes two new fields for all users. They enable you to track customer requests regarding the sale or sharing of their information, and their desire to avoid targeted advertisements.

From Education Management, select your name in the upper right corner.
Select Settings.
Select Privacy.
Under Opt-out settings, you can select to exclude your personal data from:
- Sale of information
- Targeted advertising

Additionally, list managers can select to include this data as columns in the Users list. If your school engages in the sale or sharing of information to third parties, or uses data for targeted advertising, you can use the columns to generate a list or export of users who want to opt-out.

Enrollment management

Copied Forms

When copying a form in Enrollment management, Admissions managers will now see that the copied form displays the currently selected dropdown options rather than being reset to the default value. This change impacts Inquiry Forms, Application Forms, Contract Forms, and School Forms.

Tuition management

NACHA On Hold Payments in Payment Details

Families will now see their payments that are On Hold for NACHA validation displayed in the Payment Details grid on the parent site.

NACHA On Hold Payments included in reports

The balances and totals in the following reports now include On Hold payments undergoing NACHA validation:

Aging
Delinquency
A/R Balance
Estimated Remittance
Enterprise Estimated Remittance

Audit trail for payment method changes

School users can view an audit trail that shows every time a parent’s payment method changes.
To view the new audit trail, access any family account and go to Payment Settings. Scroll down to the Change Log and select the tab labeled Payment Method. A table shows the date of any change in payment method along with the old method, what it was changed to, and who made the change.

API and Integrations

School API and OneRoster API

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

OneRoster API

We've added a new gradeRange property to the metadata object for responses from the following endpoints: GET Orgs by ID, GET Orgs all, GET School by ID, and GET Schools all.
Regarding GET Orgs by ID and GET Orgs all, only orgs of type school are impacted by the changes.
The value of metadata.gradeRange includes a comma-separated list of each grade level mapped under OneRoster Integration mappings in Education management.

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:

Log into the community and locate your name and profile picture in the upper right corner.
Select the drop-down arrow and select My Account.
From the My Account page, select the Subscriptions tab and scroll down to the Blogs section.
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.
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.