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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.

Sign in to Snowflake screen with user name and password fields highlighted

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.

Worksheets tab in Snowflake

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

Blackboard Learn SaaS CD Releases
Date (YYYY-MM-DD)StatusEntrySourceDescription
2024-06-21 AddedCDM_CRMAnthology ReachA 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

Blackboard Learn SaaS CD Releases
Date (YYYY-MM-DD)StatusEntrySourceDescription
2024-06-21AddedCDM_CRMAnthology ReachA 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

 

Blackboard Learn SaaS CD Releases
Date (YYYY-MM-DD)StatusEntrySourceDescription
2024-04-17 AddedCDM_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

 

Blackboard Learn SaaS CD Releases
Date (YYYY-MM-DD)StatusEntrySourceDescription
2024-02-27 ChangedCDM_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

 

Blackboard Learn SaaS CD Releases
Date (YYYY-MM-DD)StatusEntrySourceDescription
2024-01-19AddedCDM_LMS-PERSON-JOB_TITLELEARN.USERS.JOB_TITLEA new column in the CDM_LMS_PERSON table with the job of the person was added.
2024-01-19AddedCDM_LMS-PERSON-DEPARTMENTLEARN.USERS.DEPARTMENTA new column in the CDM_LMS_PERSON table with the department the person is part of was added.
2024-01-19AddedCDM_LMS-PERSON-COMPANYLEARN.USERS.COMPANYA new column in the CDM_LMS_PERSON table with the company the person is part of was added.
2023-12-21AddedDATA_SRC_BATCHUIDDATA_SOURCEA 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

 

Blackboard Learn SaaS CD Releases
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

CDM_LMS.GRADE

LEARN.ATTEMPT

Updated with calculations from LEARN.ATTEMPT table.


 

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