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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.
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 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 September 2024 Release
Continuous Delivery | Release to Production 5 September 2024
Developer, Security
IP Address Restriction enabled for Snowflake Service Accounts
Coverage: Illuminate Included and Enhanced Reporting Module
Users impacted: Users with developer role in Illuminate and BBDATA_USER_ROLE in Snowflake
Related Topics: IP address restriction for Snowflake service accounts
We are committed to data security for all our clients. Now, institutions can give and restrict access to Snowflake service accounts to specific IP addresses. This reduces the risk of unauthorized access to sensitive data.
With a restricted IP address, users won’t be able to access a Snowflake service account or change a Snowflake account password.
Service accounts are accounts that sign in to Snowflake with a username and password.
Image 1. Service account in the Snowflake sign in page.
You can allow and restrict a specific IP address or range of IP addresses
This example query allows a specific IP address (1.1.1.1) and restricts a range of IP addresses from (192.168.1.0 to 192.168.1.255) for a service account called SVC_BLACKBOARD_DATA.
USE ROLE BBDATA_USER_ROLE;
ALTER NETWORK POLICY NP_SVC_BLACKBOARD_DATA set ALLOWED_IP_LIST = ('1.1.1.1');
ALTER NETWORK POLICY NP_SVC_BLACKBOARD_DATA set BLOCKED_IP_LIST = ('192.168.1.0/24');
Image 2: Query in Snowflake to allow a specific IP address and restrict a range of IP addresses.
You can find more examples of IP address restriction on the IP address restriction help page.
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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