Blackbaud’s Education Management Solutions: What’s New For October 2, 2022

Bryna Gleich

Here are all of the latest changes, updates, and new features for the Education management products for October 2nd, 2022.Academics
Courses column in Edit Student Enrollment

When using Edit student enrollment, the “Requested courses” column now displays as Courses. The Settings menu includes settings for Courses column display. The functionality of Edit student enrollment has not changed.

Billing management
Alums and past students with $0 balances are now excluded from statements

Alums and past students with a $0 balance are now automatically excluded when printing statements.

Statements will still print for past students and alums with a $0 balance if the Billing clerk specifies to print a custom statement date range and the past student was a current student.

Credit balances are now shown in summary balances on statements

Credit balances are now reflected in summary balances on statements. This change applies to the summary balances on printed statements and the statement summary on the statements page in the payer portal.

Core

OneRoster settings updated with language enhancements and a new Gradebook Options tab

We’ve made several changes to the Add OneRoster settings prompt, including renaming the Options tab to Rostering options, changing some of the text under Rostering Options to enhance clarity, and adding an all-new tab, Gradebook options.

The changes made to the Rostering options tab include:

• Labels were added to describe the preexisting configuration sections. The new labels include School Years, Multi-term classes, Offering types, and Courses.
• Under School years, the following helper text was added to the existing text:
  • “If multiple years are selected, only one record will be returned for users, orgs and courses. Classes and enrollments for the selected years will be included.”
• Under Multi-term classes, the previous description was replaced with the following helper text:
  • "For classes spanning multiple terms, use this setting to control whether each term of a class outputs a row or if the class gets a single row for the school year. When creating a single row for the school year, enrollments for all the terms will be combined, so students (and teachers) enrolled in more than one term will only be listed once per class."
• Under Multi-term classes:
  • One row per term has been renamed to One record per term.
  • One row per school year has been renamed to One record per school year.

We’ve also added a new Gradebook options tab, where you can define a default Assignment type. The Assignment type setting is meant to act as a catchall for instances where an assignment has an undefined assignment type; assignments with undefined types are automatically assigned the specified type. Although this setting is optional, if left unset, those assignments lacking assignment types will be omitted from gradebook results.

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Extracurricular
Athletics Setup updates

During the coming weeks, we're giving Athletics setup a new look and creating a more streamlined experience.


This week, we consolidated the old Manage coaches, Manage rosters, and Teams pages into the new Manage teams page. From Manage teams, Athletic Group Managers can view a filterable list of teams, add and remove team sections, add and remove players and coaches for a team, and quickly access Contact Cards for head coaches.


Additionally, it's no longer necessary to offer Sport Levels before creating Team sections.


Keep an eye on the What's New for more Athletics setup changes in future releases.

API and Integrations

ATTN: GET Degrees by User ID to be deprecated January 1, 2023

GET Degrees by User ID, specific to Blackbaud's Education management School API, is being deprecated and will cease functioning on January 1, 2023; users are encouraged to adopt GET Degrees Student Degrees by ID instead.

(School) SKY API

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

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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.

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Courtney Stern

Thanks for the update!