Month In Review

In gradebooks, teachers can now quickly identify extra credit assignments by a blue star icon.

Teachers can now review earlier submissions when a student retakes an assessment.

We've moved the Scheduling Rules page out of Podium and given it a fresh visual overhaul with SKYUX.

We've renamed the Student import to Create Future Enrollment.

Generate Student Schedule process will now exclude students that don't have a registration row for the year currently being run.

Report Card and Transcript Year Access now include years prior to 2018.

We now support Turnitin’s New Standard Assignment configuration in the Turnitin LTI 1.3 integration.

When a student uses an application switch gesture or the Mac user switching feature during an assessment, LockDown Browser now closes and pauses the student’s assessment.

Grading managers have two additional options with the Categories section from the Transcript builder: Grade level totals and Category totals.

LockDown Browser verifies that students are using a minimum required version before they can access an assessment.

Billing clerks can now update the Project segment when using the Update account details bulk action on the Distributions list.

Billing clerks can now include the Fee name as a journal reference segment when posting charges to the general ledger.

A new Updates tile appears on the Home dashboard in Core which replaces the Blackbaud Announcements tile.

Pushpage Issues now appear in a modern SKY-style list.

In Enrollment, Add a New Family, the available payment methods now match the options available on the enrollment site.

To clarify when payments are processed in Shopping Cart, Step 2. Cart is renamed 2. Complete Payment. The button to proceed to step 3 is now labeled Submit Payment.

Added a new tile that allows you to view the Transcript actions list right from the Performance tab of a student.

Enhanced the Offering grid credit column on Report Cards or Transcripts by adding the Decimal precision field. This is also available on the Cumulative Credits on Transcripts.

Added a new Selected students option when printing a Report Cards and Transcripts.

Addressed an issue that prevented audio and video players from displaying in the new assignment grading interface.

Updated our grading terminology to better align with how schools naturally talk and think about grading.

Report card and Transcript templates now have a new option available from the Context menu called View student/parent log.

When withdrawing a student, the system now automatically deletes any future course requests to prevent scheduling tools from building schedules around a withdrawn student.

Learning Profile Managers can now upload external files to use as student learning profile forms, giving schools more flexibility beyond existing templates.

The Grades management page has been updated for Grading Managers to quickly access essential tools and settings in one streamlined workspace or hub.

Enter grades by class has been transformed by moving off of Podium and into an updated SKY-style list.

Parents will now only see attendance type options (Absence, Early dismissal, Late arrival) in the submission modal when there are attendance reasons configured for that type.

In list view of the Assignment Center and class Assignments pages, a new Submitted column shows how many students have turned in online file or text submissions for an assignment.

Teachers can now allow a student to re-open and continue an assessment after submitting it, without clearing the student’s answers.

Billing clerks can now import charges and credits for groups using Student ID as the unique identifier, reducing matching errors and speeding up data entry.

Billing clerks can now automatically send email or SMS notifications when new charges are added.

Student ID can be used as the matching identifier when importing payments, charges, and credits for groups from a spreadsheet. In addition, enrollment deposits for groups can be imported using Student ID as the unique identifier, reducing matching errors and speeding up entry.

When an enrollment deposit payment updates to Failed, the system now automatically prevents the payment from posting and removes any related credits.

Billing clerks can now prevent statement recipients from receiving past due balance notifications for specific students.

We’ve adjusted the Add a payment workflow to make it easier to select when payments should be processed using a Blackbaud Merchant Services account.

Name pronunciation now shows as a column for Students lists and Users Lists.

Users list now has additional columns, while Gradebook grades list and Report card grades list received a number of enhancements.

Moved Manage communities out of Podium and given it a fresh, modernized SKY list look and feel.

The landing page now displays the number of new enrollments and new payments since the user's last login directly on the Enrollments and Recent Payments tiles.

The In School Payments report now includes the ability to schedule the report.

When an adjustment is made to a Pending family’s account, the Reason for Adjustment is now recorded in the Billing Adjustment Audit Trail.

The Deferred Revenue Schedule report in the Accrual category can now be scheduled to run.

The New Faculty Assignment experience received new enhancements this month, including the Next meeting due date selector, opening a file in full screen, as well as fixing an issue so that grade, skill, and rubric comments are now auto-saving as expected.

Assignment titles over 30 characters are now shortened on the assignment grading page, and HTML is removed for proper display.

The Lockdown browser integration for Assessments was added. See our help documentation for more.

Turnitin LTI 1.3 was also made available.

When setting up Parent Submitted Attendance, we've added a new option for Boarding Schools.

Transcript Categories moved out of Podium and now uses a more updated and modern SKYUX-style list.

Billing clerks can now set default GL accounts per billing year, helping ensure distributions post to the correct AR Summary and Deferred Revenue accounts each year.

Billing clerks can import charges and credits for groups using Student ID as the unique identifier, reducing matching errors and speeding up data entry.

Billing clerks will also see all distributions for a transaction.

You can now choose which roles to include when running Bulk Set Emergency Contacts, giving you finer control over who receives contact details.

All versions of all school directories use your school’s default user name format. This includes online, printed, exported, and search results.

We expanded the functionality which automatically formats phone numbers. Data imports now benefit from this standardized formatting, specifically in the General User and Phone Number types under the Contact Card-Import/Refresh category.

When a platform manager adds or edits a school directory (via Core, Content, Directories), they determine whether users can print directory results.

We updated the appearance of the access checker that platform managers use to review whether a user can “view as” another user.

Schools can now enable and set up an Expire message for users when adding a new Decision type which appears once a decision date expires and the decision is viewed after that date.

Schools can now enable a new setting that displays the contract link in the acceptance message on the Candidate decision page.

When working with contracts under Manage Contract forms, you can now enable both Due Date and Days after generated at the same time to set up a flexible due date schedule.

Under Manage contract forms, we've added a Generate button to active contract forms. Selecting it from here opens a new window that allows schools to generate contracts.

The contract link on the Admissions progress page for a user with a single, valid contract will now directly open the contract directly rather than going to the Files and Forms page.

The older Podium experience of Community categories has been replaced by the newer SKYUX-style list.

We added Secondary payer name and Third party payer name as new Additional Fields for custom reports in the Family Export category.

Blackbaud Financial Aid Management’s IRS integration began rolling out on January 21. See here for more information.

We added a new IRS Data Transfer field on both the school and parent sites that indicates whether a parent has chosen to allow IRS data transfer or opted to manually upload all financial documents.

When viewing Diploma requirements, we’ve added a third status to go alongside In progress and Completed. Future will display for enrolled students that have not received any credits yet for a course that has not begun.

We've added Transcript Category and Transcript Abbreviation columns to the offering grid of Transcripts.

When viewing the attendance statuses list, you now have an option to export it to a CSV file.

From the Learning Center, we've moved the Approve learning profiles page out of Podium and modernized it with SKYUX.

We've added a Parent Submitted Attendance option for schools to enable. This is an opt in feature that allows parents and guardians to submit an absence, late arrival, or early dismissal request for their child. For more information and a detailed run through of this process and how to use it, please visit our help center documentation.

We’ve redesigned the Courses to include settings in Transcripts to make selections clearer.

We also introduced a streamlined and modernized faculty assignment experience. Designed to save time and reduce complexity, this update focuses on faster assignment creation, enhanced grading workflows, and customizable preferences to improve efficiency and usability.

Emergency contacts in Core now benefit from standardized formatting.

The list of reports and related admin tasks are now in a single list of reports under Core, Reporting, then Reports.

We've added the ability to add a new checklist step for a candidate that is able to log the user into their Blackbaud Financial Aid Management account. It can also display a Financial Aid application.

Families are again required to submit paystubs as part of the financial aid application process.

Under Student enrollment, schools can enable None assigned for the Advisor filter.

This month, the Official notes types page was overhauled into a SKYUX-style list.

Billing holds managers can now see the Past due balance in the Manage holds list, making it easier to determine when a hold should be removed after payment.

Billing clerks can now create new miscellaneous fees directly from the Billing years page, without needing to navigate to Settings first.

Payers can now view and print their end-of-year statements directly from the payer portal, making it easier to access tax information without contacting the school.

Billing clerks can now view the past due balance directly in the Manage holds list, making it easier to determine when a hold should be removed.

Billing clerks can now copy settings from an existing miscellaneous fee when creating a new one, reducing manual entry and saving time.

Schools can now choose to enable an automatic phone format for contact cards in Core, Enrollment Management, and 360 user profiles.

Admissions managers and notification recipients can now receive notifications when a review has been submitted. You can also select whether you want a notification for every submission or to receive a daily digest at a specific time once per day.

We've added new columns to the Candidates for review list including Date added (when the candidate was added to the committee), Review submitted date, and Date submitted for review summary.

Decision types and Decision texts have been removed and replaced by the Decisions tab which is still found under Admissions setup. Decisions is a modern SKY style list displaying all school decisions, complete with filters, columns, a search option, and sortable columns to better refine and find the data you need. The Candidate list also has more columns and filters available to pick from, like Decision viewed, Last viewed date, and Current grade. In addition, from the Admissions progress candidate page, decisions have been built in so candidates can see when one is available for them.

When creating a school form, a URL is generated that can be sent by a school to a user to allow them to assign it to themselves and submit it once finished.

We’ve moved the EMS and Core related Standard Application Online settings to Core, System tools, and Integrations.

When creating a contract, we've added a new Incidental charges block that also can be used to sign up for autopay.

We moved the Bulk set emergency contacts option to Core, Users, and then Bulk set emergency contacts.

• Tiles on the new landing page are now "sticky." When users rearrange tiles, their customized layout is preserved across sessions, ensuring a consistent and personalized experience.

Income verification methodology: Instead of paystubs, we’re now using Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) from Line 11 of IRS Form 1040 to verify a family’s income.

Customized document requirements: Our Review Team will no longer review paystubs. However, schools may still require them by updating the Required documents in Settings, General School Settings.

Enroll groups has moved into Student Enrollment under Requests and Schedules as a button, and its corresponding tab has been removed. Athletics also has its own Enroll group option from the Manage teams page, though Extracurricular, Athletics, then Manage teams. For more information, check out our documentation.

We've added a new placeholder for Preferredname|Firstname when sending Official Notes. In addition, the Nickname field is now called Preferred name.

When working with the Course Roster - By Teacher report, the mobile phone number is prioritized for parents, as indicated by the (M) icon next to the number. If only a home phone number is listed, that displays instead with a (H) indicator.

When working with Consequence Notifications, we've added Infraction Description as a placeholder, essentially the external description of the reported infraction.

Infraction Notifications have a bunch of new placeholders like Infraction Date, Approval Status, Additional Notes, and more.

Billing clerks can now choose to keep a payer enrolled in auto-pay when using the Change payment plan wizard or rolling over a payment plan.

Payers can now view comments associated with transactions on both the Amount due page and the Upcoming payments section within the Payer portal.

Billing clerks can now delete multiple payment plans at once, making it easier to clean up plans added mistakenly.

Billing clerks can now update account numbers on multiple distributions at once.

Billing clerks can now save drafts when adding credits to a group, making it easier to pause and return to in-progress batches.

Billing clerks can now apply payments and credits to specific installments on a payment plan, giving them more control over how funds are allocated.

Billing clerks can now delete multiple payment plans at once, making it easier to clean up plans added mistakenly.

Billing clerks can now choose to keep payers enrolled in auto-pay when rolling over a payment plan.

Using the View as option, your school can now enable some employees to view Blackbaud Education Management as though they were a specific student or advisee.

Schools can now export the list of Registered BBID users.

When Blackbaud ID indicates that an account has been updated, disconnected, or redacted (obfuscated), a reason is now listed in their Login history as well as the Access tab of their Core user profile.

When a platform manager views the list of user accounts which are Registered, Awaiting response, and Unregistered, the filters and columns are now “sticky.”

We’ve added help text to the user interface for Other relationship type for User profile settings where all relationship types are managed.

Schools can now choose to send Pushpage emails without click tracking to help reduce the likelihood of messages being flagged as spam by Gmail and other email providers.

We’ve updated the editor on several pages to Tiny MCE version 7.0.1.

Select to Acknowledge all changes from Users, then Profile changes to confirm all changes to user profile data instead of just the first 100 items on the first page.

We’ve added quality-of-life improvements to the Assign contract types list. New filters and columns have been added, School year is now called Contract year, and a new None Assigned option only displays users who do not have any contracts assigned to them. Finally, we've also added a new Assign and generate option when assigning a contract type. Not only does it let you assign a contract to the selected user, but you can immediately generate the contract for them as well.

From the Financial Aid section of the Student's Profile within Enrollment management, you can now select View financial aid history to open a modal window showing any update or deleted actions made to their financial aid record.

Blackbaud Tuition Management is moving to completely paperless invoicing beginning with the 2026-2027 school year. All billing correspondence will be delivered exclusively via email and with this release, paper invoice options are removed in the 2026-2027 school year.

Manage official notes now has sort options for Date created, Student name, and Author name.

To reduce the risk of accidental schedule clearing, we've added a confirmation modal to appear if the school term has already started before the Generate Master Schedule can be run.

Billing clerks can now change a student’s payment plan in a single process, without deleting the existing plan and creating a new one. This update ensures payments and credits are automatically reapplied, reducing errors and saving time.

When adding payments to a group, you can choose to save your current progress and return later to finalize the payments using the new Save draft button. To resume, go back to the Add Payments window and select View Previous Run History at the top. On the new page, select the Drafts tab to view each saved draft. Use the context menu for a record to edit or delete it.

Payment plans support editing plan dates in bulk to help you adjust plans based on developing family situations.

Canadian payers can enable Auto-Pay during the contract enrollment process, provided the selected payment plan is configured to allow Auto-Pay sign-ups.

When a platform manager adds a user via the task on their Core home dashboard, they can enter the user’s preferred first name and preferred last name.

When you import data using a General user import type, the import handles Preferred last name. Use the import to update names in bulk for users. When you import data, you’ll choose a layout type to match the new names to users by host ID or by user ID.

When a manager goes to Blackbaud ID Authentication and views the lists of users who are Unregistered, Registered and Awaiting response, they can choose to show a column of each user’s contact (primary) Email address. These emails are often, but not always, used as the Blackbaud ID username.

When a list manager views a User list, they can choose to show a column for Birth place.

Admissions managers can use Show to within a Student Checklist step to control who has access to uploaded files.

In August, we overhauled the Admissions Progress page in the Parent Portal and Candidate progress settings. For more information on this update, please check out our blog post and Admissions Progress Text.

Additional filter and column options have been added to the Manage checklist list. Specifically, admissions managers can now work with Academic class, Activity, Athletic team, Advisory, and Dorm details for the current academic year.

This month, the Transportation visual overhaul went live for all schools to help give it a more consistent appearance to match other areas of Blackbaud Education management. From Extracurricular, Athletics, and then Athletics setup, when an Athletic Group Manager selects Transportation, a list displaying the Transportation and Number of Seats by default will appear.

Schools can now add up to five custom fields to Buy Now items for additional details, such as "Size" and "Homeroom teacher".

With this update, Blackbaud Tuition Management now supports the use of special characters for payer and student names. For more information, including a full list of special characters, please visit our help center.

The BBTM landing page also received a visual overhaul this month, showcasing new tiles displaying important details and information such as displaying calls to action, Enrollment, Remittance, and more. Shortcuts to your favorite reports can also be accessed, along with a Recently accessed families area and a Watchlist for payer accounts that you feel need to be monitored.

Schools can now add the 2026-2027 year and set their application open and close dates. Families applying for aid for the 2026-2027 school year cannot select your school until the year is added and the application is open based on the dates you set.

• More column options have been added to the Manage official notes list. You can now add Last emailed, Last printed, and Both should be blank if value is not set.

• When adding a transcript, administrators can now select terms for school levels outside of the one selected on the transcript.

Billing clerks can now view the reason a payment failed directly in the Recent payments list, helping to identify trends without drilling into individual records.

We’ve updated the delimiter used in the recurring description field for Canadian Pre-authorized (PAD) agreements to prevent unintentional line breaks in variable amount scenarios. The delimiter has changed from a comma (,) to a pipe (|).

Billing clerks can now include the student’s name in upcoming incidental auto-pay reminder notifications, so payers know which student the reminder is for.

Billing clerks can now see which charges make up the scheduled payment amount for a student’s incidental auto-pay schedule. The scheduled amount is now a clickable link that opens a flyout with a detailed list of charges.

On the Current bill page in the payer portal, we’ve added an Auto-pay column to the Charges list, enabling payers to see which charges are scheduled for automatic debit (indicated with a checkmark).

We’ve introduced support for Auto-Pay for incidentals, allowing payers to automatically cover charges outside of standard payment plans. Once configured in the Settings section, payers can enroll in incidentals-focused Auto-Pay plans, and billing clerks can manage these enrollments from familiar locations like individual billing profiles and the Auto-pay List.

From Control panel, Security, User management, when an organization admin edits a user’s roles, the All School role now appears as an option and is selected by default.

We’ve updated how schools handle mail merges. Check out the fresh, modern interface in Core, Communication, then Mail Merge.

This month, we released the all-new Official notes list. For more information, please visit the help center or check out our journal.

The Opponent Contract Report has been moved onto the Manage opponents page. You can use Opponent contract report text to edit the text that appears when being sent to confirm an athletic event.

Standard Invoices now include the following details:

• Custom fee descriptions

• Student last names

If your school has not uploaded bank information or completed the Beneficial Ownership form, a reminder to complete these tasks is displayed in the Blackbaud Updates tile on the new landing page.

The Family Export custom report now includes Watchlist Family (yes/no) as an available field under Additional Fields.

The redesigned landing page now includes a reformatted Recent Payments tile.

In the Enterprise Summary Report - All Students, we've added columns for Total Enterprise Awarded Amount and Total School Awarded Amount to clearly distinguish between awards granted by the enterprise and awards granted by the school.

Schools now have more control over when Attendance Notifications are sent out. From Attendance, and then Notifications, the Minutes notification should be sent after can be customized with a numerical value, with a minimum of 10 minutes to a maximum of 100 minutes.

We now support partial credit completion for a diploma.

We've added a sort order column to Special Days from smallest to largest.

Report Card Setup now has a filter for School Level as long as there is a template built for it. School Level automatically defaults to All, while Filter for Status is now set to Active. We also made filter selection sticky, saved to BBID.

When adding attendance for groups, the List of students is now always shown based on the options selected within the Students to include criteria.

The Payment Plan section in student billing profiles now includes a drop-down menu for selecting a billing year.

The Payment Plan section on billing profiles has been redesigned to provide clearer information and greater user control.

When editing the statement templates, Billing clerks can select to display distributed statements as an Invoice instead of a Statement.

The Current bill page in the payer portal now includes a clickable Amount due link. When selected, it opens a new Amount due page that provides a detailed breakdown of the charges making up the current amount due.

The Aged accounts receivables (AAR) report now includes amulti-select billing year filter, enabling billing clerks to choose specific years to include in the report results.

Billing clerks can now edit future installment charge percentages for payment plans.

Payment plans now support editing plan dates in bulk to help you adjust plans based on developing family situations.

We added a new billing year filter to the Contracts section on student billing profiles, enabling Billing clerks to quickly identify contracts specific to the selected year.

We added a new optional column, Deposits, to the Recent disbursements list to enable billing clerks to identify if a payment is already tagged with a deposit.

Admins who can impersonate other users can now do so from the heading of a 360 user profile.

The white Omnibar has returned.

When a user is logged into Blackbaud Education Management, their name appears in the top right corner, so users can access their profile, settings, and more. Previously, this menu used their last name. Now, if a user has a preferred last name, it’s shown instead.

This month, we've overhauled the visual style of the Admissions Progress page from the Parent Portal. The page is now mobile friendly as the candidate progress text box can be collapsed so that it doesn't take up space in the mobile view. The biggest change will be the banner at the top of the page, which is completely customizable from Admissions setup, then Candidate Progress Settings. For more information on this update, please check out our blog post and help topic.

If a student checklist is removed from a student, files will no longer be deleted from the record and are available in Files and Forms. School administrators can now delete these files from Core, Student record, then Files and Forms.

We moved the self-scheduling and notification settings for Visits & Interviews out of the admissions schedule calendar on the EMS Homepage and into its own location under Admissions setup. In here, select Visits and interviews to find all of the settings and new options. You're now able to define self-scheduling rules by type and we've added two new self-schedule settings for rescheduling and canceling.

With this release, we’ve added the Custom Billing Details Report under the Bookkeeping category.

When performing a Balance Rollover after a family’s payment plan for the previous year has ended, the rollover discount is now applied to the last billing month of that payment plan, offsetting the family’s balance in the previous year.

We also made several updates to the Welcome Letter, E-invoice, and Prior to Debit reminder email communications.

We moved Search to the omnibar above Blackbaud Financial Aid Management. Results are sorted with the most recent application years first.

This month, we rolled out a new visual upgrade for Managing official notes.

The Class attendance list has a new column called Is future attendance and filter option known as Future attendance.

Students can now pin important assignments to the top of their own Assignment Center for quick access and visibility.

The Course Roster Report now prioritizes a wireless phone number for parents. This accounts for families that do not have a Home phone listed. However, if Home and Wireless phone numbers are present, both will display on the report with a M (mobile) and H (home) icon next to them to signify which is which.

Enrollment deposit amounts can now vary based on international or domestic residency, enabling more flexibility to bill payers accurately based on their current circumstances.

Payers now can see transaction comments under Activity on the Statements page in the payer portal.

Payers now see the Due date column under Recent activity on their Current bill in the payer portal.

When configuring the credit card and direct debit fees special fees on the Billing years page, percentage + fixed amount is a new option that enables Billing clerks to specify the base dollar amount for the fee and an overall percent, enabling schools to match the Blackbaud Merchant Services convenience fee.

Manually added one-off charges are included in the active payment plan for the current billing year.

Electronic funds transfer (EFT) is a new payment source option, available for situations when payments are received outside of the billing system.

During June, we’ve applied user name formats to the lists of accounts that are Unregistered, Awaiting response, or Registered for Blackbaud ID (BBID). The user name format appears in the column for User summary.

When you view the list of Unregistered accounts, the Warnings column now indicates when an email address is already in use but is associated with another account. A message names the other account and their User ID.

Previously, when you viewed an address from a school directory, the address was shown using a map from Microsoft Bing. Now, the map is from Google. The general functionality remains the same.

Schools that use School website but not Extracurricular (Blackbaud Learning Management System), can now access Athletics from their School Website menu.

Users with the Page manager role now have access to manage Athletic venues (via task ID 53176). By default, this task is disabled for clones of the page manager role upon release, but platform managers can edit the task status if desired (via Core, Security, Roles).

School users can now edit custom fee descriptions.

When grade access is enabled for the Coach role, coaches can access grades only for students on their teams for the current academic year.

We've made further improvements to your Student Attendance experience. On flyout, the Description list now includes Advisor, Residence, and Student Email columns. We've also replaced School Level with Grade Level. Please note, if a student does not have one of the above options, the column won't show.

When generating charges, charges are applied evenly across all remaining payment plan installments. Previously, the generate charge process could apply charges to past payment plan installments.

Billing clerks can reverse posted financial aid credits, enrollment deposits, and one-off credits. To perform a reversal and automatically create the necessary distributions, when viewing the record, select More actions, and choose Reverse. Enter the date for the reversal.

On May 20, 2025*, the payment amounts shown to payers are now unique to them based on their responsibility as configured in their students’ billing profile. Billing clerks have access to these payer-specific values, helping to better service account requests.

We’ve added a new section to the Add payments to group window called Payment details. Within the section, payments can be applied to overall balances, payment plans, and specific charges.

We’ve added a new section to the Add credits to group window called Credit details. Within the section, credit can be applied to overall balances, payment plans, and specific charges.

Now, when generating late fees for a group of students, the Preview charges step breaks student full names into two new columns, First name and Last name, enabling Billing clerks to sort by Last name. First name defaults to the students' preferred name, if available.

We’ve added Export options to more SKY lists in Core.

We’ve renamed the Student school enrollment column on the Users list to Has school enrollment. It now shows Yes or No instead of years.

When a platform manager views the list of members for a security role (in Core, Security, Role, Members), the names are now clickable links. Select a name to go to the Access tab of a user’s Core profile.

From an existing user’s profile, you can add relationships that are new users. Now, you can also enter the preferred last names of those new users. This applies to Core, Enrollment management, Academics, Billing management, and school directories.

With this release, we’ve added two new exports. You can now Export the list of Roles (from Core, Security, Roles) and the list of Tasks (from Core, Security, Roles, Tasks).

When copying a candidate checklist, associated content is also copied. Admissions managers can copy content like the Step Description, Link, and any Reminder or Follow up notifications.

Admissions officers now have an additional option when sharing Files and Forms to Core which will allow them to share files and forms only after a candidate has enrolled as a student. This will limit the files and forms being shared to only those who have a student rule, which will include incoming students, current students, past students and alums.

In May, we completed updates to our credit card payment processing engine to provide payers with a more secure payment experience that is consistent across Tuition Management and all Blackbaud products.

Parent_Email has been added to the Import Students import template. If sending award information for imported students to Blackbaud Enrollment Management, the imported parent emails must match the parent Blackbaud ID emails in Enrollment Management so the students can be matched.

We’ve extended the session timeout on the school site to 90 minutes to match Blackbaud ID’s timeout. This change does not affect the parent site.

Continuing with our recent updates to many locations within Blackbaud Education management, we've given the Activity and Advisory section pages a modern SKY appearance and interface. You can access these areas by going to Academics, Scheduling, and then Requests and schedules. From here, switch the page to either Activity or Advisory to see the new content. Both sections use the SKY UI list format, displaying all available activity types with the ability to create more. Edit an existing Activity to add leaders and members right from here as well. The same can be done for Advisories, as they can be edited to add Advisors and Advisees as needed. For more on these changes, make sure to visit our online help center.

In the narrative view of the new faculty grade entry experience, teachers can now navigate between students using Previous student and Next student.

Teachers can now access their Preferences from the calendar view of the Assignment Center and the Assignments tab on class pages.

On April 15, we began upgrading the Official Notes experience by moving it out of Podium and into a modern SKY appearance, which improves consistency and usability. You'll still be able to access it from Academics, Communications, Official Notes, and then Manage official notes (formerly Approve official notes). In addition, the Official notes ready to approve and Official Notes No approval required links from the Academics Home page will also load here.

For schools using Mastery, we've made a change allowing teachers to access the Mastery calculation tab within their Gradebook settings regardless of their ability to select their own computation method.

We’ve addressed an issue in the new teacher grade entry experience where formatting was removed when pasting text into the comment fields.

In gradebooks set up by marking period, we now display a warning message for teachers if the Calculation method selected for a subsequent marking period does not match the Calculation method selected for the first marking period. The warning message only calls attention to the mismatched calculation methods and does not prevent teachers from saving.

Payers can now enable Auto-Pay during the contract enrollment process when the specific payment plan is flagged to allow for Auto-Pay sign-ups. Auto-Pay, once flagged to be available, can either be required or optional.

Now, when adding enrollment deposits to a group of students, all future billing years with enrollment deposits defined are available for selection.

With this release, we’ve updated additional user interfaces to a modern SKY appearance, which improves consistency and usability. Users with access will notice the updated look when they manage settings for Ethnicity types, Gender, and Pronouns. These are found in Core, Users, User profile settings. It’s now easier to see which types are in use. Plus, you can now Reorder ethnicities.

We’ve updated additional user interfaces to a modern SKY appearance, which improves consistency and usability. Users with access will notice the updated look when they manage abbreviations for address formats in Profile page settings. These are found in Core, Users, User profile settings.

The Omnibar is now available in Education Management.

Admissions managers can now view more details on the Test Scores tile from the Candidate record. New information includes Score, Percentile, Scale, and Stanines. Previously, admissions managers needed to select the test to see additional details.

Admissions managers have more Filter and Column options to select when working with the Contract List. Last generated date shows the specific timestamp for when the contract was last generated. Contract ID can help admissions managers use it to match transactions between EMS and Blackbaud Merchant Services.

Flywire is available again as a payment type for international families. When the integration is enabled, parents can complete bank account, debit, or credit card payments through Flywire by selecting International Payments as their payment method on the parent site.

Blackbaud Tuition management payers can now invite additional users to access a single-family account. Previously, only 1 user was allowed access to the BBTM parent website.

We introduced Balance Rollover as a new batch action in Manage Families. After completing school year rollover and enrolling families in the new year, use Balance Rollover to transfer balances to the new year and collect payment in the new payment cycle.

In the Retirement Plans section of the financial aid application, we added descriptions to Self Managed and Employer Managed to help parents better understand how to complete these fields.

When uploading documents, parents can now unmark Document cannot be provided after selecting it for a required document. Previously, parents could not clear this selection once marked.

In the Summary Report, the Taxable Income column is renamed Prior Year AGI.

Schools utilizing Blackbaud K-12 solutions and Financial Aid Management can create a single sign-on (SSO) resource board post for parents to seamlessly navigate from the Education Management parent portal to Financial Aid Management.