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Illuminate 2024년 10월 릴리즈

지속적 전달 | 2024년 10월 23일 프로덕션 릴리즈
Illuminate, 업데이트된 기능

2024년 10월 릴리스에는 다음이 포함됩니다.

캐나다 및 시드니에서 데이터 Q&A 사용 가능 

EU 및 미국에서 제공되는 데이터 Q&A를 이제 캐나다 및 시드니 지역에서 호스팅되는 클라이언트에서도 사용할 수 있습니다. 앞으로 더 많은 지역으로 지원 범위를 넓혀갈 예정입니다. 데이터 Q&A를 통해 뷰어는 사용 가능한 주제에 따라 질문하고 대시보드 형식으로 답변을 받을 수 있습니다. 대시보드에는 여러 시각화와 AI에 의해 생성된 텍스트 기반 요약이 있습니다. 

데이터 접근 권한이 제한된 뷰어는 현재 데이터 Q&A를 사용할 수 없습니다. 교육기관 인증을 채택하고 설정에서 데이터 Q&A를 옵트인한 교육기관만 데이터 Q&A를 사용할 수 있습니다.

데이터 Q&A에 대해 자세히 알아보기

새로운 전역 설정 

이제 전역 설정 페이지에 세션 시간 초과에 대한 컨트롤이 포함됩니다. 클라이언트는 15분에서 8시간 중 시간 제한을 선택할 수 있습니다. 또한 교육기관 이메일 필드도 포함됩니다. 고객은 시스템 중단, 계획된 유지 관리 기간 및 기타 중요한 정보에 대한 알림을 받으려면 이 이메일에 가장 적합한 주소를 입력하는 것이 좋습니다.

전역 설정에 대해 자세히 알아보기

기본 인증 비밀번호 로테이션 

보안을 강화하고 추가 기능을 활용하기 위해 모든 고객에게 교육기관 인증 사용은 권장되지만, Illuminate 기본 인증은 여전히 지원됩니다. 기본 인증은 개별 Illuminate 계정으로 로그인하는 것을 말합니다. 이 방법의 보안을 강화하기 위해 90일마다 비밀번호 로테이션을 시행하고 있습니다. 사용자는 로그인 페이지의 '비밀번호 찾기' 링크를 따라 언제든지 비밀번호를 업데이트할 수 있습니다.

Illuminate 2024년 9월 릴리즈

지속적 전달 | 프로덕션 릴리즈 2024년 9월 5일
개발자, 보안

Snowflake 서비스 계정에 대해 활성화된 IP 주소 제한

자료범위: Illuminate 포함 및 향상된 보고 모듈 
영향받는 사용자: Illuminate의 개발자 역할 및 Snowflake의 BBDATA_USER_ROLE이 있는 사용자
관련 주제: Snowflake 서비스 계정에 대한 IP 주소 제한 

당사는 모든 고객의 데이터 보안을 위해 최선을 다하고 있습니다. 이제 교육기관에서는 Snowflake 서비스 계정에 대한 접근 권한을 특정 IP 주소에 부여하거나 제한할 수 있습니다. 이렇게 하면 민감한 데이터에 대한 무단 접근의 위험을 줄일 수 있습니다.

제한된 IP 주소를 사용하는 경우 사용자가 Snowflake 서비스 계정에 접근하거나 Snowflake 계정 비밀번호를 변경할 수 없습니다. 

서비스 계정은 사용자 ID와 비밀번호로 Snowflake에 로그인하는 계정입니다. 

이미지 1. Snowflake 로그인 페이지의 서비스 계정.

특정 IP 주소 또는 IP 주소 범위를 허용하고 제한할 수 있습니다

이 예제 쿼리는 SVC_BLACKBOARD_DATA라는 서비스 계정에 대해 특정 IP 주소(1.1.1.1)를 허용하고 IP 주소 범위(192.168.1.0~192.168.1.255)를 제한합니다. 

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'); 

이미지 2: 특정 IP 주소를 허용하고 IP 주소 범위를 제한하는 Snowflake의 쿼리.

IP 주소 제한 도움말 페이지에 더 많은 IP 주소 제한의 예가 있습니다.

Illuminate July 2024 Release

Continuous Delivery | Release to Production 24 July 2024
Reporting, Updated Features

Our July 2024 release includes:

AI Design Assistant Adoption Report 

Previously available only to clients opting into the Illuminate Preview program, this report is now generally available to all clients. It reports on usage of the AI Design Assistant in Blackboard Ultra over time, by institutional hierarchy node, course, and instructor. 

Find out more about the AI Design Assistant Adoption Report

Data Q&A 

Previously only available as part of the Illuminate Enhanced Reporting upgrade, Data Q&A is now available as a feature of Illuminate. Data Q&A is included at no additional cost for clients hosted in the US and EU regions, with further regional support to follow. Using Data Q&A, you can ask a question based on available topics and receive an answer in the form of a dashboard with multiple visualizations, as well as a text-based summary generated by AI from the visualizations. 

Data Q&A is not currently available to Viewers with restricted access to data, which will follow in an update to the topic, and is only available to institutions that have adopted Institutional Authentication.

Find out more about Data Q&A

Improvements to reports:

• Student Performance and Grade – This report has been updated to improve visual and filtering consistency. 
• Learning Platform Adoption – The 4-level Institutional Hierarchy filters have been added to all tabs except the Originality Tool Adoption tab. 
• Collaboration Session Activity Report – This report now supports role-based access. 
• Learning Tools Adoption Report – This report now supports role-based access. 
• LMS Trends Report – This report, which is available to advisors within Anthology Reach, now has printing enabled.

Data model improvements: 

• A new canonical sub-model has been deployed for CRM use cases, based on data available in Anthology Reach. 

This sub-model is not yet populated and is deployed in order to generate feedback and prioritization of future expansion. We are working towards data ingestion for Reach clients and will share progress in a future release.

Illuminate Developer Canonical Data Model changes

Continuous Delivery | Release to Production 24 July 2024
Developer, CDM Changes, Data Dictionary

Blackboard Data Developer Canonical Data Model changes

Continuous Delivery | Release to Production 24 July 2024
Developer, CDM Changes, Data Dictionary

Illuminate April 2024 Release

Continuous Delivery | Release to Production 30 April 2024
Reporting, Updated Features

Our April 2024 release includes:

• Improvements to our Home Page for a consistent and better user experience.

  Role-Based Access is now available for clients using Institutional Authentication with SAML as their identity provider. This feature allows access to compartmentalized reports, enabling administrators to give users the permissions to log into reporting and access data only from the nodes they are associated with.
  Now, administrators can assign roles and permissions to allow or restrict user access to specific reporting areas.

  Find out more about Role-Based Access and Roles and Permissions

  In Custom Reports, a feature of the Illuminate Enhanced Reporting premium upgrade, Authors can now easily create visualizations through simple drag-and-drop actions, selecting metrics from pre-built datasets already connected in their instances. This eliminates the requirement for SQL skills. 
  Pre-built datasets included are:

  • Person Course Summary
  • Learning Filters All Roles
  • RLS Filters

  Additionally, Authors can now choose to cache data and refresh it based on their preferred schedule. They can also upload flat files like CSVs or Excel spreadsheets, enabling seamless incorporation of external data into Enhanced Reporting.

• Other improvements and bug fixes:
  In Learning:

  • In the Social and Collaborative Engagement Report we solved an issue with the Institutional Hierarchy Levels and the Tool type filters. In the Virtual Engagement tab, we also fixed an issue with the x-axis of the stacked bar for the student distribution by participation in Collaborate sessions. Those values are now correctly sorted.
  • The Student Summary Report now supports Role Based Access.

  In Leading:

  • In the Learning Platform Adoption Report, we fixed the filters for the ‘What institution roles access LMS sessions?’ visualization and implemented several performance improvements.
  • The Course Administration Report now supports Role Based Access.

Illuminate Developer Canonical Data Model changes

Continuous Delivery | Release to Production 30 April 2024
Developer, CDM Changes, Data Dictionary

Illuminate March 2024 Release

Continuous Delivery | Release to Production 26 March 2024
Reporting, Updated Features

Our March 2024 release includes:

• One new report in the Leading area:

  To provide a better understanding of how tools are being used and adopted in the Institution, we have improved the Learning Tools Activity and Use report.  

  The Learning Tools Adoption Report now includes key information on tools usage, identifies which courses and Institutional Hierarchy Nodes use specific tools, and allows for easy comparisons of tools usage across different timeframes.

  The report has two tabs:

  • Overview
  • Comparison

  Find out more about the Learning Tools Adoption Report.

• For institutions with Anthology Student, new SIS filters and attributes were incorporated into the Student Performance and Grades and the Social and Collaborative Engagement reports:

  • 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.

Illuminate Developer Canonical Data Model changes

Continuous Delivery | Release to Production 26 March 2024
Developer, CDM Changes, Data Dictionary

Illuminate February 2024 Release

Continuous Delivery | Release to Production 21 February 2024
Reporting, Updated Features

Our February 2024 release includes:

• Illuminate has a new URL: https://illuminate.blackboard.com/. Users can still access Illuminate using the previous URL.

• In Settings, under the Snowflake Account Settings tab, a credit burndown chart is now available for better control of the institution's monthly credit usage.

  
• Other improvements and bug fixes:
  • In Learning, in the Student Summary Report: We fixed an issue with the Course ID value. It now appears in the Course summary Report for consistency between reports. Additionally, in the Activity Log Tab, we are now filtering out “Root” and “Interactive” elements from the item column.
  • In Teaching, in the Instructional Practice Report: We resolved an issue with the filter controls of the Virtual Classroom Engagement Tab and updated the Collaborate Session calculations for consistency within the report.
  • In Leading, in the Course Administration Report: We addressed an issue related to the percentage of new updated items. Previously, it filtered out any items created before the course creation date, resulting in always showing a 100% percentage and an artificially low item count. This issue was solved by modifying the logic behind the course item count to consider items created or modified after the course creation time, thus removing the template items.
  • In Leading, in the Learning Platform Adoption Report: The LMS Activity Tab now includes 4 levels of Institutional Hierarchy, allowing Institutions to set their own context and zoom in on the data they need.
• In Custom Reports, Authors can enjoy a better user experience with an improved frame and expand/collapse actions.

Illuminate Reporting January 2024 Release

Continuous Delivery | Release to Production 24 January 2024
New Features, Updated Features

Our January 2024 release includes:

• In Teaching, the Course Summary Report is now supported for Role Based Access for clients with Institutional Authentication using Blackboard Learn as the identity provider.

• In Custom Reports, Authors can now seamlessly share dashboards with report viewers within their institution. 

  More about Role Based Access

Illuminate Developer Canonical Data Model changes

Continuous Delivery | Release to Production 24 January 2024
Developer, CDM Changes, Data Dictionary

Illuminate Enhanced Reporting November 2023 Release

Continuous Delivery | Release to Production 15 November 2023
New Features

Our November 2023 release includes:

• Custom Reports is now available for all clients with Enhanced Reporting. This new enhanced feature will allow you to create custom reports that meet your needs and deploy them alongside our standard (pre-built) reports.
   
  

  Find out how Custom Reports works.

• Data Q&A is now available to all clients with Enhanced Reporting. This new feature will allow you to explore your institutional data regardless of your technical expertise by asking questions in natural language and getting customizable visual answers, saving time and effort.
   
  

  Find out how Data Q&A works.

Illuminate Developer Canonical Data Model changes

Continuous Delivery | Release to Production 15 November 2023
Developer, CDM Changes, Data Dictionary