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Versão do Illuminate de outubro de 2024

Disponibilização contínua | Versão para produção de 23 de outubro de 2024
Recursos atualizados do Illuminate

Nossa versão de outubro de 2024 inclui:

Data Q&A disponível no Canadá e Sydney 

Além da UE e dos EUA, o Data Q&A agora também está disponível para clientes hospedados no Canadá e em Sydney. Adicionaremos suporte para mais regiões no futuro. Com o Data Q&A, os espectadores podem fazer perguntas baseadas em tópicos disponíveis e receber respostas em um painel. O painel tem múltiplas visualizações, bem como um resumo escrito gerado por IA. 

O Data Q&A ainda não está disponível para espectadores com acesso restrito aos dados. Somente as instituições que adotaram a Autenticação institucional e ativaram o Data Q&A em Configurações podem utilizar o recurso.

Saiba mais sobre o Data Q&A

Novas configuração globais 

A página Configurações globais agora possui uma opção de controle para o tempo limite de sessão. Os clientes podem selecionar um tempo limite entre 15 minutos e 8 horas. A opção também inclui um campo de e-mail institucional. Recomendamos que os clientes preencham esse campo com o endereço de e-mail mais adequado para receber notificações de interrupções do sistema, períodos de manutenção planejada e outras informações importantes.

Saiba mais sobre Configurações globais

Rotação nativa de senhas de autenticação 

Embora seja recomendado que todos os clientes usem a Autenticação institucional para aumentar a segurança e desbloquear recursos adicionais, a autenticação nativa do Illuminate ainda é suportada. A autenticação nativa refere-se ao login com uma conta do Illuminate individual. Para aumentar a segurança desse método, estamos impondo a rotação de senhas a cada 90 dias. Os usuários podem atualizar as senhas a qualquer momento, acessando o link Esqueci minha senha na página de login.

Versão do Illuminate de setembro de 2024

Entrega contínua | Versão para produção em 5 de setembro de 2024
Desenvolvedor, segurança

Restrição do endereço IP habilitada para as contas de serviço do Snowflake

Cobertura: Módulo de relatórios incluído e aprimorado do Illuminate 
Usuários afetados: Usuários com função de desenvolvedor no Illuminate e BBDATA_USER_ROLE no Snowflake
Tópicos relacionados: Restrição de endereço IP para as contas de serviço do Snowflake 

Estamos comprometidos com a segurança de dados para todos os nossos clientes. Agora, as instituições podem conceder e restringir o acesso às contas de serviço do Snowflake para endereços IP específicos. O objetivo é reduzir o risco do acesso não autorizado aos dados confidenciais.

Com um endereço IP restrito, os usuários não poderão acessar uma conta de serviço do Snowflake nem alterar a senha de uma conta do Snowflake. 

Contas de serviço são aquelas que fazem login no Snowflake com um nome de usuário e senha. 

Imagem 1. Conta de serviço na página de login do Snowflake.

Você pode permitir e restringir um endereço IP específico ou um intervalo de endereços IP

A consulta do exemplo permite um endereço IP específico (1.1.1.1) e restringe um intervalo (de 192.168.1.0 a 192.168.1.255) para uma conta de serviço chamada 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'); 

Imagem 2: consulta no Snowflake para permitir um endereço IP específico e restringir um intervalo de endereços IP.

Você pode encontrar mais exemplos da restrição do endereço IP na respectiva página de ajuda.

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