What’s New: K12 Product Updates For December 11
And here we are, at the end of another year. I hope it was a productive and enjoyable one for you. I know it has been for us as well as we’ve shown inside of our Year in Review product posts. We’re not done quite yet though as we still have our final release of 2019 to share.
We’re hoping you’re on the nice list this month because we’ve got a good mix of quality of life improvements as well as new features for you to enjoy. Enrollment management and School website lead the way this month, but we also have a few presents for you Academics and API users as well.
So, before your holiday vacation arrives, let’s have a look at some of the highlights for our release on December 11.
Enrollment management: Assign contract types list overhaul! Podium, be gone! In this update, we’ve completely overhauled Assign contract types to use a more modern look and feel like other lists inside of Blackbaud’s Education management products. This means you have access to customizable options like filters and columns, a search bar to find results easier, and the ability to change the order or columns.
Better yet, we’ve also added the ability to apply bulk actions. Simply select one or more results in the list to assign a contract type to all of them. One thing to note here is that there’s a limit to how many records can have bulk actions applied to them. With this release, the maximum number is set to 50.
Academics: Transcript improvements! If needed, you can now create a header the repeats across every page of a transcript. You can find this functionality on the Design form when editing a transcript template. Look for the Repeat first row on all pages and enable it.
School website: Team Navigation for your Team Detail Pages. This month, we’re continuing our athletics initiative by adding tabbed navigation for team detail pages. What is that, you say? Well, there’s a new widget called Team Navigation available from Team Detail under Detail Pages when building a website.
Like other widgets, you can drag and drop this where you need it, but you can enable tabs to display the roster and schedules on the page. One thing to note is that New Team Detail pages will default to just have the team home option selected so you’ll need to manually turn on the others through the widget settings.
We hope you enjoy at least one of the gifts we’ve wrapped for you under the tree in this December update. As always, check out the release letter for the full list of changes, updates, and new features.
Next week we’re continuing our product journey with School website and then wrapping up the blogging season in 2019 with Core. I hope you join me but if not, I hope you have a wonderful and safe holiday season. After a short break, we’ll be back cranking out all new content for you to enjoy in January 2020.
Thanks, as always, for stopping by this week and make sure to subscribe to the K-12 Community if you haven’t yet done so. We’re entering the home stretch but there’s still so much to talk about! See you next week!
