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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 December 2023 Release
Continuous Delivery | Release to Production 13 December 2023
New Features
Our December 2023 release includes:
Institutional administrators now have an overview of the users who have access to the institution’s reports and the number of licenses used per month for better control.
Only available for institutions with Institutional Authentication.
More about License and User management
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 Reporting October 2023 Release
Continuous Delivery | Release to Production 24 October 2023
Updated Features
Blackboard Data is now Anthology Illuminate:
Register for our webinar to know more:
Find out more in our Community blog post.
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Our October 2023 release includes one new report in the Learning area and the following improvements:
The Student Summary Report provides insight into an individual student’s activity, engagement, and performance across all their current and historical courses. It allows you to view what a student has done in courses in a given timeframe. The report has 3 tabs:
- Overview: Provides high-level information on students’ activity over time.
- Engagement and Performance: Delivers detailed insights on a student’s engagement and performance across courses.
- Activity Log: Summarizes a student’s granular activity on courses within a specific timeframe.
Find out more about Student Summary Report.
Other improvements & bug fixes:
- In Learning, in the Student Engagement Report we fixed an issue with filtering unavailable enrollments, eliminating duplicate counts.
- In Learning, the Student Performance and Grades and the Social and Collaborative Engagement Reports are now supported for Role Based Access for clients with Institutional Authentication using Blackboard Learn as the identity provider.
- Additionally, Illuminate Reporting is now localized to Traditional Chinese.
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 September 2023 Release
Continuous Delivery | Release to Production 06 September 2023
The September 2023 release of Blackboard Data Reporting, includes the following improvements:
In Learning, the Course Access tab in the Student Engagement Report has been updated with the following enhancements:
- New column Average Course Progress is included to the table What’s student engagement per course? showing the percentage of items completed average across all enrollments.
- New column Total Progress is included to the table Are students engaging with courses? showing the percentage of items "completed" by student.
In Learning, the Engagement with Course Content tab in the Student Engagement Report has been updated with the following enhancements:
- Two new columns Average items reviewed and Average items completed are included to the table What’s student engagement per course? showing the percentage of items reviewed and completed average across all enrollments.
- Two new columns Items reviewed and Items completed are included to the table Are students engaging with courses? showing the percentage of items reviewed and completed by student.
Blackboard Data Reporting August 2023 Release
Continuous Delivery | Release to Production 09 August 2023
The August 2023 release of Blackboard Data Reporting includes one new report in the Teaching area :
The Course Summary report is a holistic report about a single course that provides insight into student and instructor behavior in a course. The report has four tabs:
- Course Overview: providing high level statistics about the course and metadata.
- Student Engagement and Performance: giving detailed information on student engagement and performance.
- Instructional Practice: providing a detailed view of the instructional practices based on the course design, Instructor-Student engagement, and student success.
- Course Design: providing an understanding of how this course has been designed based on the item types used and their usage over time.
This report will allow you to filter students' activity within a given time scale.
Find out more about Course Summary report.
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 July 2023 Release
Continuous Delivery | Release to Production 25 July 2023
Role-Based Access, our new feature:
Blackboard Data Reporting June 2023 Release
Continuous Delivery | Release to Production 6 June 2023
In our June release of Blackboard Data, we have deployed a new sub-model for SIS data, CDM_SIS. Initially, this is empty for all clients but available in your Snowflake reader account so that you can browse the structure. It is also documented in the data dictionary. In the future, we plan to automatically populate this sub-model for all clients licensing both Learn SaaS and Anthology Student SIS, additionally, we are considering an ingestion service to enable all clients to populate this sub-model with SIS data.
More information on these future plans will be shared in our product roadmap sessions.
Additionally, we have added a new table containing course progress data for students in Ultra courses with this feature enabled. In future, we plan to add this valuable data to relevant reports in Blackboard Data Reporting.
For more information, see the CDM Change Log and Data Dictionary entries listed therein.
Blackboard Data Developer Canonical Data Model changes
Continuous Delivery | Release to Production 6 June 2023
Developer, CDM Changes, Data Dictionary
| Date (YYYY-MM-DD) | Status | Entry | Source | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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2023-06-07 |
Added | CDM_SIS |
Anthology Student |
A new canonical sub-model for SIS data, to be populated with data from Anthology Student SIS. |
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2023-06-07 |
Changed |
Anthology Student, |
Additional tables and columns in the CDM_MAP schema to map people and course sections between Learn and Anthology Student. |
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2023-06-07 |
Added |
LEARN.COURSE_CONTENTS_REVIEWED |
A new table that displays students’ progress against course content items where progress tracking is enabled in Ultra courses. |
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 Developer Canonical Data Model changes
Continuous Delivery | Release to Production 24 May 2023
Developer, CDM Changes, Data Dictionary
| Date (YYYY-MM-DD) | Status | Entry | Source | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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2023-05-17 |
Changed | COURSE START DATE |
LEARN.COURSE_MAIN.START_DATE |
Modify the DYNAMIC_DATE calculated field to reflect the real course start date when filtering by Course Start Date. The Course Start Date column was added to the datasets where it was missing. |
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2023-03-08 |
Changed |
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Add the following logic to the filtering views and tables:
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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.
Blackboard Data Institutional Authentication Availability
New Features | Release to Production 08 March 2023
In our March release of Blackboard Data, we have deployed Institutional Authentication for clients hosted in Canada, Singapore and Sydney. This feature offers Single-Sign-On using SAML or Blackboard Learn as identity provider and enables greater control over user access and can be set up through a support ticket.
Find out more in Institutional Authentication
Blackboard Data Developer Canonical Data Model changes
Continuous Delivery | Release to Production 08 March 2023
Developer, CDM Changes, Data Dictionary
| Date (YYYY-MM-DD) | Status | Entry | Source | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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2023-03-08 |
Added | Institution Hierarchy Permission CDM_LMS. INSTITUTION_HIERARCHY_PERMISSION |
LEARN.DOMAIN_ADMIN |
A new table that maps users in the PERSON table to Institution Hierarchy nodes based on a “node admin” relationship. This will be used in Reporting for future “Role Based Access” functionality. |
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2023-03-08 |
Changed |
Stage |
LEARN. LEARN.BLTI_DOMAIN_CONFIG.NAME |
Adding an attribute to the STAGE column to indicate the specific LTI tool used for a Basic LTI Link item, where this tool is identified in the BLTI_DOMAIN_CONFIG table. |
Blackboard Data Developer Canonical Data Model changes
Continuous Delivery | Release to Production 31 January 2023
Developer, CDM Changes, Data Dictionary
| Date (YYYY-MM-DD) | Status | Entry | Source | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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2023-01-31 |
Added | Copy From Courses CDM_LMS.COURSE.COPY_FROM_COURSES |
LEARN.COURSE_MAIN.COPY_FROM_UUIDS |
Identifies from which course(s) content has been copied into the course. |
Blackboard Data Developer Canonical Data Model changes
Continuous Delivery | Release to Production 17 January 2023
Developer, CDM Changes, Data Dictionary
| Date (YYYY-MM-DD) | Status | Entry | Source | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-01-17 | Added | Parent Course Item Id CDM_LMS.COURSE_ITEM.PARENT_COURSE_ITEM_ID |
LEARN.COURSE_CONTENTS.PARENT_PK1 |
Foreign key that references itself in this table to identify the parent item that the current item sits within. |
| 2023-01-17 | Added | Content Position CDM_LMS.COURSE_ITEM.CONTENT_POSITIO |
LEARN.COURSE_CONTENTS.POSITION |
The position of a content item on the page or within its parent item, with 0 being the highest. |
Reporting tab
Continuous Delivery BRS 1.0 | Release to Production 25 June 2020
New features, Reporting
This feature is only available to participants of the Blackboard Data Insider Program. For more information about the program & eligibility, please visit Blackboard Data Insider Program.
A new Reporting tab has been added to the Blackboard Data UI. This where users will see all the reports they have available and where we will be adding new reports in the future. This view includes the name of the report, as well as the primary and secondary questions the report helps answer.
