Illuminate April 2025 Release

Continuous Delivery | Release to Production 14 April 2025
CDM Changes, Reporting

Our April 2025 release includes:

New events in CDM_TLM.ULTRA_EVENTS and Activity Log report

We added new Blackboard telemetry events to the Telemetry Canonical data model (CDM_TLM) in the ULTRA_EVENTS table.

This gives deeper insights into user interactions within Blackboard. New events help to inform decisions in academic disputes and aid in troubleshooting.

This update introduces 3 new event types:

PAGE_VIEW: Captures when a user navigates to a new page by recording when the page URL changes.
PANEL_CLOSED: Captures when a user closes a panel.
CHANGE: Captures user modifications made to items within Blackboard.

We also updated an existing event:

CLICK: Previously, click events were limited to specific interactions, such as closing tabs, accessing files, or opening links. Now, click events capture all user interactions with any clickable element.

New click events are included in the Activity Log report, found in the Student Summary section of the Learning reports. However, the other new events haven’t been added to the report yet.

This change is retroactive and historical data for these 4 events is available. You can review past activity to determine what click events occurred in the past.

Telemetry tables capture all events and can be very large. We recommended that you use filters to optimize your queries. We published a telemetry investigation query in our GitHub repository. You can use the query as a starting point to explore telemetry data.

Image 1. The new events are in the CDM_TLM.ULTRA_EVENTS table in Snowflake.