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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:
Video Studio data available in Snowflake for Illuminate Core clients
A new CDM_MEDIA sub-model that contains Video Studio usage data is now available in Snowflake for Illuminate Core clients. The existing CDM_MAP schema has been updated to map users and courses between CDM_MEDIA and CDM_LMS. Entities are documented in the data dictionary.
Blackboard source tables available in Snowflake for Illuminate Premium clients
The transactional database for Blackboard is normally only available to Direct Data Access customers. 191 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. Note that these are not documented in the data dictionary, but existing documentation is available on our help pages.
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 May 2025 Release
Continuous Delivery | Release to Production 26 May 2025
CDM Changes, Data Dictionary
Our May 2025 release includes:
New canonical data model for Video Studio (CDM_MEDIA)
Video Studio is a Premium Blackboard capability that allows instructors to create accessible and engaging video content for their courses.
Now, Video Studio data is available in Illuminate. Developers can explore Video Studio data in Snowflake to analyze this tool's usage and adoption in their institutions.
We added a new canonical data model for Video Studio (CDM_MEDIA). The canonical data model contains 5 tables:
- ACTIVITY: User interactions with videos such as load, playback, pause, and resume, as well as the duration of the action.
- CONTAINER: Information about where videos are allocated. INSTANCE: Video Studio instance, one per Blackboard tenant.
- MEDIA: Video information such as duration, size, type, and creation date.
- PERSON: PERSON: User identifier for both owners and viewers of videos.
- SESSION_ACTIVITY: Aggregation of all the actions from the ACTIVITY table per user session, giving an overview of the duration played back in each unique session.
Tables and data details are in the data dictionary.
This change is retroactive. Historical data for Video Studio is available.
Image 1. A Video Studio query in Snowflake is searching the MEDIA table.
Illuminate Developer Canonical Data Model changes
Continuous Delivery | Release to Production 26 May 2025
CDM Changes, Data Dictionary
| Date (YYYY-MM-DD) | Status | Entry | Source | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-05-26 | Added | CDM_MEDIA | Video Studio | A new canonical data model for Video Studio data. |
Illuminate Developer Canonical Data Model changes
Continuous Delivery | Release to Production 14 April 2025
Developer, CDM Changes, Data Dictionary
| Date (YYYY-MM-DD) | Status | Entry | Source | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-04-14 | Modified | CDM_TLM-ULTRA_EVENTS-EVENT_TYPE | BLACKBOARD_DATA.CDM_TLM.ULTRA_EVENTS.EVENT_TYPE | Added new event types in the CDM_TLM_ULTRA_EVENTS table. The event types that are now included are PANEL CLOSED, PAGE VIEW, and CHANGE. The existing CLICK event now captures all user interactions with any clickable element. |
Illuminate Developer Canonical Data Model changes
Continuous Delivery | Release to Production 24 July 2024
Developer, CDM Changes, Data Dictionary
| Date (YYYY-MM-DD) | Status | Entry | Source | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-06-21 | Added | CDM_CRM | Anthology Reach | A new canonical sub-model for CRM data, to be populated with data from Anthology Reach CRM in a later release. |
Blackboard Data Developer Canonical Data Model changes
Continuous Delivery | Release to Production 24 July 2024
Developer, CDM Changes, Data Dictionary
| Date (YYYY-MM-DD) | Status | Entry | Source | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-06-21 | Added | CDM_CRM | Anthology Reach | A new canonical sub-model for CRM data, to be populated with data from Anthology Reach CRM in a later release. |
Illuminate Developer Canonical Data Model changes
Continuous Delivery | Release to Production 30 April 2024
Developer, CDM Changes, Data Dictionary
| Date (YYYY-MM-DD) | Status | Entry | Source | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-17 | Added | CDM_LMS-COURSE_ITEM-AI_STATUS | LEARN. AI_STATE | A new column in the CDM_LMS-COURSE_ITEM table with an indicator that defines the AI Design Assistant use. The PERSON_ID field needs to be populated with the ID of the user who accepted the AI-generated content |
Illuminate Developer Canonical Data Model changes
Continuous Delivery | Release to Production 26 March 2024
Developer, CDM Changes, Data Dictionary
| Date (YYYY-MM-DD) | Status | Entry | Source | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-02-27 | Changed | CDM_LMS.GRADE | LEARN.GRADE | The logic was updated, ensuring that all calculated grades are now available in the Canonical Data Model. |
Illuminate Developer Canonical Data Model changes
Continuous Delivery | Release to Production 24 January 2024
Developer, CDM Changes, Data Dictionary
| Date (YYYY-MM-DD) | Status | Entry | Source | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-01-19 | Added | CDM_LMS-PERSON-JOB_TITLE | LEARN.USERS.JOB_TITLE | A new column in the CDM_LMS_PERSON table with the job of the person was added. |
| 2024-01-19 | Added | CDM_LMS-PERSON-DEPARTMENT | LEARN.USERS.DEPARTMENT | A new column in the CDM_LMS_PERSON table with the department the person is part of was added. |
| 2024-01-19 | Added | CDM_LMS-PERSON-COMPANY | LEARN.USERS.COMPANY | A new column in the CDM_LMS_PERSON table with the company the person is part of was added. |
| 2023-12-21 | Added | DATA_SRC_BATCHUID | DATA_SOURCE | A new element to the stage attribute of the PERSON and COURSE tables was added to include the BATCH_UID from the DATA_SOURCE table. |
Illuminate Developer Canonical Data Model changes
Continuous Delivery | Release to Production 15 November 2023
Developer, CDM Changes, Data Dictionary
| Date (YYYY-MM-DD) | Status | Entry | Source | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
2023-10-25 |
Added | CDM_LMS.ATTEMPT |
LEARN.ATTEMPT |
A new table that displays information about attempts on course items, such as assignments, blogs, or wikis. |
|
2023-10-25 |
Changed |
LEARN.ATTEMPT |
Updated with calculations from LEARN.ATTEMPT table. |
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