Blackbaud’s Education Management Solutions: What’s New For May 9, 2023

Paul Bowers

Here are the latest changes, updates, and new features for the Education management products for May 9, 2023.

Enrollment management

Create Candidate Has A New Look!

Last month, we gave you a sneak preview of an upcoming visual overhaul for Create Candidate and with this release, it has finally arrived. We've taken the Create Candidate experience and overhauled it to the SKY list style seen in other places within Blackbaud's Education management products. Functionally, it remains pretty much the same as you remember, though now, you can use the customizable filters and columns to tailor the experience to what you want. In addition, there's a search bar for finding specific candidates, there's a User Criteria Search which lets you drill down even further by incorporating details like grad years, roles, User ID, and more. Candidate Criteria lets you either create a new candidate record for an existing user or Create a new child with a candidate record for an existing parent.

Once the list is populated with one, or many users, select the user you need and then head to the next page. The Candidate Information page is where you add their information like First and Last name, as well as their Admissions information. If you’re looking to add a candidate to a user, the page also displays any current relationships as well, including their role and access levels. For more, make sure to visit our online help.


API and Integrations

Various School API endpoints no longer in BETA

The following endpoints have now transitioned out of BETA:

• GET Academics assignments for student
• GET Academics graded assignments for student
• GET Academics sections for student
• GET Academics student enrollments changes
• GET Content News categories
• GET Content News items
• GET Core custom fields
• GET Degrees student degrees by ID
• GET Directories
• GET Directories results
• GET Schedules meetings
• GET Schedules - meetings for a student
• GET Test and Subtest types
• POST Test Score create
• GET Users Children of Parent
• GET Users emergency contact changes
• POST Users emergency contact non-user create
• POST Users emergency contact user create
• GET Users emergency contacts by user ID
• GET Users Get Me
• GET Users enrollments by year

School API and OneRoster API Changelog

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

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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.

• April 2023
• March 2023
• February 2023
• January 2023
• December 2022