Blackbaud’s Education Management Solutions: What’s New for January 9, 2024

Bryna Gleich
Bryna Gleich Blackbaud Employee
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Here are the latest changes, updates, and new features for the Education management products for January 9, 2024.

Billing management

Mark failed post attempts as posted

Posts to Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT with a Status of Failed can now be marked as posted by a billing clerk.

To mark a failed post attempt as posted, open the Work with previous runs page and select a failed post. Select More, and then choose Mark as posted.

This feature update currently applies only to schools participating in the direct post to Blackbaud Financial Edge NXT early adopter program (EAP).

Core

Track a student’s anticipated completion date

Platform managers and contact card managers at higher education organizations will notice a new field in the General info section of Contact cards in their user profiles (in Core and 360). Use this new field to track the Anticipated completion date for students.

This helps schools more easily monitor whether students finish their degree within the expected time after their enrollment. Previously, schools could only view the most recent enrollment for the student. This new field is especially helpful for students who graduated but then re-enrolled for an additional degree, or who entered with transfer credits from a previous school.

A future release will enable schools to update this information in bulk via an import.

Enrollment management

Contract List

The Contract Type filter on the Contracts list no longer shows the Archived status.

Events

When an admissions manager removes a selected attendee when checking them in, they’re marked as Did not attend instead of Canceled.

With this release, access to the old Podium style event registration form builder has been removed, leaving the newer SKY UI experience introduced last year.

When viewing a checklist for a candidate, admissions events that have been registered and processed now appear as Scheduled.

Notifications

Email notifications now defaults to the new notifications management task instead of the older Podium experience.

Student Checklist

Admissions managers can now delete a student checklist right from the student record. A new button called Remove checklist can be selected next to Assign checklists.

API and Integrations

School API

New

Delete an address from a user record

We’ve added a new endpoint for deleting the address property associated with a user record. This endpoint is in BETA and may be removed or replaced with a 90-day deprecation period.

DELETE User address delete removes the specified address from the user record based on the provided user_id and address_id path parameters. If the address is shared, other users linked to the address will not be affected.

Delete a phone number from a user record

We’ve added a new endpoint for deleting a phone property associated with a user record.

DELETE User phone delete removes the specified phone number from the user record based on the provided user_id, phone_id, and phone_type_id path parameters.

Delete an occupation from a user record

We’ve added a new endpoint for deleting an occupation property associated with a user record.

DELETE User occupation delete removes the specified occupation from the user record based on the provided user_id and occupation_id path parameters.

Delete an education entry from a user record

We’ve added a new endpoint for deleting an education entry associated with a user record.

DELETE User education delete removes the specified education entry from the user record based on the provided user_id and education_id path parameters.

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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