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Illuminate June 2025 Release

Continuous Delivery | Release to Production 11 June 2025
CDM Changes, Data Dictionary, Developer, New Features, Reporting, Updated Features

Our June 2025 release of Illuminate includes:

Blackboard source tables available in Snowflake for Illuminate Premium clients in Canada, Sydney, and Singapore

The transactional database for Blackboard is normally only available to Direct Data Access customers. 191 source tables from Blackboard’s Open Database Schema are now available to Illuminate Premium clients in Canada, Sydney, and Singapore. Deployment to the EU and the USA will follow in later releases.

These entities are available in Snowflake as views in a new LEARN schema within the existing Illuminate database. These tables are refreshed every 4 hours. Other canonical data models have an overnight refresh rate.

Note that these are not documented in the data dictionary, but existing documentation is available on our help pages. The new 191 tables included in Illuminate are documented in an Excel file.

Image 1. A query with LEARN schema source tables in Snowflake.

Snowflake, with LEARN tables on the left and SQL on the right

Video Studio data mapped with Blackboard

The existing canonical data model for Mapping (CDM_MAP) was updated to map users and courses between Video Studio (CDM_MEDIA) and Blackboard (CDM_LMS) canonical data modes. Two columns were added to CDM_MAP:

MEDIA_CONTAINER_ID in the CDM.MAP_COURSE table
MEDIA_PERSON_ID in the CDM.MAP_PERSON table

Entities are documented in the data dictionary.

This release also includes the following bug fixes:

Learning

Fixed an issue with Student Summary where some visuals were filtered based on course start date instead of activity date. Minor improvements were also released.
Fixed an issue with Social & Collaborative Engagement which excluded inactive students due to date filtering based on last access instead of course creation date.

Leading

Fixed an issue with Learning Tools Adoption where some tool types were not included.

Teaching

Fixed an issue with Course Summary where the Student Engagement and Performance tab included data from non-student roles.

Illuminate Developer Canonical Data Model changes

Continuous Delivery | Release to Production 11 June 2025
CDM Changes, Data Dictionary

Date (YYYY-MM-DD)	Status	Entry	Source	Description
2025-06-10	Added	CDM_MAP.PERSON.MEDIA_PERSON_ID	Anthology Illuminate	Foreign key that references the primary key of the CDM_MEDIA.PERSON entity.
2025-06-10	Added	CDM_MAP.COURSE.MEDIA_CONTAINER_ID	Anthology Illuminate	Foreign key that references the primary key of the CDM_MEDIA.CONTAINER entity.

Illuminate Enhanced Reporting November 2023 Release

Continuous Delivery | Release to Production 15 November 2023
New Features

Our November 2023 release includes:

Custom Reports is now available for all clients with Enhanced Reporting. This new enhanced feature will allow you to create custom reports that meet your needs and deploy them alongside our standard (pre-built) reports.

Find out how Custom Reports works.

Data Q&A is now available to all clients with Enhanced Reporting. This new feature will allow you to explore your institutional data regardless of your technical expertise by asking questions in natural language and getting customizable visual answers, saving time and effort.

Find out how Data Q&A works.