Education Area: Home & Overview

The Education area enables Education Management admins to go to capabilities that are shared with other Blackbaud solutions, including

  • Control Panel which includes settings for

    • Authentication - which you can use to enable a single sign on (SSO) experience for your school’s users.

    • Security - which you can use to control which capabilities users can access. See security for details.

  • Connected Apps - which you’ll eventually use to manage integrations from third party partners via SKY API. To get started with the School API, see the online documentation.

  • a menu to switch to other Blackbaud "NXT" solutions that your school already uses. (sometimes called a "hamburger" icon.)

As an Organization (site) administrator, select Education from the "omnibar" navigation menu.

Alternatively, as a platform manager who is a Organization (site) administrator, select Go to Education area from your Home dashboard in Core.

Users with the platform manager security role can access functionality for Education Management that appears in capability personas (Core, Academics, Enrollment management, Extracurricular, School website ) and role personas (such as Faculty).

  1. From Education, select Home. You’ll do this from the omnibar navigation menu at the top of the user interface.

  2. Then select Go to Education Management. Your Home dashboard from Core appears.

Tip: For information about our vision of “One Blackbaud” view SKY UX.