Blackbaud’s Education Management Solutions: What’s New For April 25, 2023

Katie Burckhalter
Katie Burckhalter Blackbaud Employee
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in Blackbaud Higher Education Solutions™ Announcements
Here are the latest changes, updates, and new features for the Education management products for April 25, 2023.

Academics

Changes in General Elective Requirement display

A slight change has been made in the way credits are applied toward a General Elective Requirement for a degree. This change is visible on the Requirements tab of a student profile.
The General Elective Requirement on a degree can be set up to accept credit overages from other requirements. For example, if a student earns 16 English credits but only needed 15 to fulfill a degree's English requirement, then the 1 overage credit can be applied toward a General Elective Requirement.
Previously, if a student earned more overage credits than the number of credits required for a General Elective Requirement, then all of those overage credits would be applied toward the general elective (for example, even if the student only needed 9 credits to satisfy the General Elective Requirement, the row displaying General Elective Requirement credits might display 10 credits earned). Now, the General Elective Requirement will only accept overage credits up to the amount that satisfies the requirement.

Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) 1.3 Launching Support

With this release, we are beginning to roll out LTI 1.3 as a connection type and have constructed a new landing page for setting up LTIs. In this first iteration, we support the launch of LTI tools via the new 1.3 authentication method. We do not yet support LTI Advantage, so you may encounter incompatibilities when connecting to various LTI 1.3 compliant tools. The function to allow Assignments & Grade Services 2.0 is available. Tools that require Deep Linking 2.0 or Names and Role Provisioning Services 2.0 will not yet function, though we have plans to implement both of these capabilities in the future.

Existing LTI 1.1 connections will continue to function as they have in the past.

For more information regarding the new LTI settings page, please reference our updated Help Documentation.

Billing management

Add, review, and delete credit on the Recent credits list

We've added a new Recent credits list to Billing Management. This new addition joins the existing Recent payments and Recent charges lists, providing Billing clerks with a focused and filterable list of credits.
The Recent credits list enables billing clerks to:
  1. Add credit for one or multiple students at once by selecting Add credit or Add credit to a group.
  2. Delete one or multiple credits simultaneously.
  3. Filter list results based on credit date or details and add optional columns.
  4. Export the list to a .csv file according to the chosen filters and columns.
Additionally, these changes relocate the Add Credits to Group option from under Tasks in the Billing Management Overview to the Recent credits list.

Enrollment management

Inquiry Forms

We've added a new checkbox style field called Languages Spoken at Home when creating a new Inquiry Form. Once the form is processed, the selected languages then appear correctly on the user's Contact Card under the Citizenship/Resident section.

New options for Candidates List date filters

We've added new date range filtering options for the Candidates list. The following options are available for all filters listed under Date range pickers:
  • Last week
  • Last month
  • Last school year
  • Last calendar year

Extracurricular

Athletics – Manage roster

Athletic Group Managers can now review and update team members and their details from Extracurricular > Athletics > Athletics setup > [team name] > Manage roster. Managers can add and remove team members, as well as edit member information, including Jersey numbers, Positions, player photos, and more.

API and Integrations

School API and OneRoster API

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

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  1. Log into the community and locate your name and profile picture in the upper right corner.
  2. Select the drop-down arrow and select My Account.
  3. From the My Account page, select the Subscriptions tab and scroll down to the Blogs section.
  4. Locate Blackbaud Higher 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.
  5. Scroll to the end of the page and select Save changes.

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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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