What’s New - December 17, 2024

Check out the new features and enhancements for Blackbaud's Education Management Solutions.

Academics

report card grade entry updates and feature release date

The new report card grade entry experience for faculty will be enabled for all schools on January 7th. When the new experience is enabled, faculty will only have access to the old report card grade entry experience through Grading on class pages. The new experience will be available from the New Grading tab on class pages, as well as through My Day, Schedule & Performance, by selecting a grade plan on the Grading tile.

For more information on these updates, see the full video. We’ve also highlighted the faculty standard grade entry and skill entry experiences in two shorter videos:

In the new Student Assignment Center, students can now display assignments by the Due date or the Assigned date. Previously, assignments were only displayed by the Due date. Students can update their view by selecting Show filters to display the filter panel on the left. Under Display assignments by, select Due date or Assigned date.

In list view, students can also set their Assignment view to show Active assignments due in the future or Past assignments with a Due date in the past.

Assignments are divided into the following buckets when Assigned date is selected for Active assignments:

  • Missing or overdue: Includes Overdue assignments and assignments marked as Missing. Missing assignments remain in this group until the teacher removes the Missing indicator.

  • Assigned before this week

  • Assigned this week

  • Assigned next week

  • Assigned after next week

And when viewing Past assignments by Assigned date:

  • Missing or overdue: Includes Overdue assignments and assignments marked Missing. Missing assignments remain in this group until the teacher removes the Missing indicator.

  • Assigned this week

  • Assigned last week

  • Assigned before last week

Core

The user name format your school has configured will now appear in the user list (user summary column) and header of the user profile in Core.

 

Tuition management

Inside of Blackbaud Tuition management setup, we've added Parent of Past Student and Parent of Alumni to the SSO roles. Now, parents of past students or alums that have a remaining balance can continue to use SSO to log in and make payments.

API and Integrations

New

Update candidate information

We’ve added a new endpoint for updating candidate information for a specified entering year:

PATCH Candidate (Edit) requires one URL query parameter, candidate_id, and one parameter in the request body, enteringyear_id, to match a candidate record and update it with the information specified in the request body.

For information about recently added endpoints and other updates, view the School API and OneRoster API changelog.

 

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