Archived Release Notes

Illuminate Reporting December 2023 Release

Continuous Delivery | Release to Production 13 December 2023
Updated Features

Our December 2023 release includes:

• For institutions with Anthology Student, new SIS filters and attributes were incorporated into the Student Engagement report:

  • Course Modality
  • Grade Level
  • Program
  • Course Retake
  • Primary Instructor

  A distinct indicator  (🔹) identifies data sourced from the Student Information System (SIS) allowing institutions without SIS data to recognize why certain elements are not populated. The overall functionality of the report remains unchanged. 

• In the Teaching reporting area, the Instructional Practices and the Assessment and Grading reports are now supported for Role-Based Access for institutions with Institutional Authentication using Blackboard Learn as the identity provider. 

  More about Role-Based Access

Illuminate Reporting November 2023 Release

Continuous Delivery | Release to Production 15 November 2023
Updated Features

Our November 2023 release includes:

• A new color palette was added to our reports to have a more accessible experience.
   
  
• New landings offer detailed information and insights into what is encompassed in the upgrade to Illuminate Enhanced Reporting.
  

Blackboard Data Access Control

Continuous Delivery | Release to Production 24 October 2023

In our October 2023 release:

• In settings, Institutional administrators now have a Credits Usage card with the number of credits used and the remaining for the month in their Snowflake Reader account, for better management.
  

  More about Credits Usage and Settings

• We are implementing a new process to optimize Illuminate Reporting, called Sleep Mode, which will help us ensure the efficient use of resources while making sure you have continued access to reporting. Reporting Instances that have not been used for a period of 30 days will be temporarily placed in a dormant state, you will be prompted to awaken the system when you next login.

  Sleep mode will not be activated for clients of Enhanced Reporting.

Blackboard Data Reporting July 2023 Release

Continuous Delivery | Release to Production 25 July 2023

The July 2023 release of Blackboard Data Reporting includes one new report in Preview release:

Our upcoming Learning Tools Adoption report provides a better understanding of how tools are being used and adopted in the Institution, giving insight into the usage of tools by different user types, courses, and Hierarchy Nodes, as well as allowing easy comparisons of tool adoption within a specific timeframe.   

The report is available for use and can be accessed directly from Blackboard Data Reporting. Please keep in mind that this report is an improvement of the Learning Tools Adoption and Use report, which will still be available in the Leading area.  

We are offering early access to this report to those institutions who opt-in to our Preview Release program. The current version of the report includes the Overview tab and the Comparison tab, with a link to a feedback survey directly in the report. To find out more about the Preview Release program and to opt-in, use the link: Preview Release Opt-in.

Blackboard Data Reporting May 2023 Release

Continuous Delivery | Release to Production 24 May 2023

The May 2023 release of Blackboard Data Reporting includes one new report in Preview release and the following improvements:

Our upcoming Student Summary report provides insight into a single student’s activity, engagement and performance across all their current and historical courses and allows to see in a given time scale what the student has done in courses. We’d like to offer early access to this report to those institutions who opt-in to our “Preview” release. The current version of the report includes the Overview tab and the Engagement and Performance tab, along with direct links to feedback. To find out more about the Preview Release program, and to opt-in, use the link: Preview Release Opt-In

Other improvements & bug fixes:

• In Learning and Teaching reports fixed an issue with filtering when selecting the course start date.
• In Leading we fixed an issue with filtering in the Course Administration Report, and now all non-deleted courses are included in the report.

Blackboard Data Reporting March 2023 Release

Continuous Delivery | Release to Production 08 March 2023

The March 2023 release of Blackboard Data Reporting includes one new report in Preview release and the following improvements:

Our upcoming Course Summary report provides insight into student engagement and performance, course design, and instructional practice for a single course, and allows filtering of activity between a set of dates. We’re offering early access to this report to those institutions who opt-in to our “Preview” release program. The current version of the report includes the Student Engagement and Performance tab and an Overview tab, with links to feedback surveys directly in the report. To find out more about the Preview Release program, and to opt-in, use the link: Preview Release Opt-In

Other improvements & bug fixes:

• In Learning, the “Social and Collaborative Report” now includes all Collaborate sessions with roles other than student or guest present (Facilitator, Teaching assistant, Grader), whereas it previously only considered sessions with an Instructor role present.
• In all reports, “child” courses are now filtered out to avoid false negatives for student activity and instructor presence.