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

Paul Bowers · May 2023

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

Core

IPEDS Lists

Lists specifically designed for Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) are now generally available. We’d like to thank all of the higher education organizations who participated in the early adopter program (EAP) that helped to make this update possible.

To get started, check out this visual tutorial with instructions for using the new lists to find, export, and organize data for IPEDS.

A platform manager who is an environment admin or an organization (site) admin should configure security roles and role membership. This determines who has access to the lists and their data.

Since some fields of data in Blackbaud Education Management may not exactly match those required by IPEDS, you should also configure how you want the data from Core and Academics to map to corresponding fields for IPEDS. As a platform manager, go to Core, Settings, Integration Mappings, IPEDS, then Edit any values that are Not mapped, and select Save.

Note: After you configure Integration Mappings for IPEDS, wait until the following day to take further action. The mapped data (IPEDS gender, IPEDS race, and IPEDS withdrawal reason) are updated in the lists overnight.

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Users with access to the new higher ed lists should go to the lists by selecting Analysis from the top navigation menu and then selecting Lists. Alternatively, from your Home dashboard in Core, select Go to Education area, and then select Lists.

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Some list types correspond to multiple IPEDS components. Thus, you'll use those list types multiple times to report data:

Admissions
- Admissions: Part 2 (Selection Process - A/A/E),
Course enrollments
- 12-month Enrollment: Part B - Instructional Activity,
Enrollments
- 12-month Enrollment: Part A - Unduplicated counts,
- Fall enrollment
Student degrees
- Completions,
- Graduation rates,
- Graduation rates 200%,
- Outcome measures,
Test scores
- Admissions: Part 3 (Selection Process - Test scores).

Two additional lists do not directly correspond to IPEDS. These lists enable you to report additional information about

People
Student Majors

to your school's stakeholders.

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Students' user profiles are the source of some IPEDS specific data fields for these lists. To update the data for a student in the list, go to the student's user profile in Core and select Contact card. Then select Edit under General information.

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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.

API and Integrations

Various School API endpoints no longer in BETA

The following endpoints have now transitioned out of BETA:

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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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.
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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.