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Blackboard Data Developer Canonical Data Model changes

Continuous Delivery | Release to Production 6 June 2023
Developer, CDM Changes, Data Dictionary

Blackboard Learn SaaS CD Releases
Date (YYYY-MM-DD)	Status	Entry	Source	Description
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.
2023-06-07	Changed	CDM_MAP	Anthology Student, Blackboard Learn	Additional tables and columns in the CDM_MAP schema to map people and course sections between Learn and Anthology Student.
2023-06-07	Added	CDM_LMS.COURSE_CONTENT_ITEMS_REVIEWED	LEARN.COURSE_CONTENTS_REVIEWED	A new table that displays students’ progress against course content items where progress tracking is enabled in Ultra courses.

Continuous Delivery | Release to Production 24 May 2023
Developer, CDM Changes, Data Dictionary

Blackboard Learn SaaS CD Releases
Date (YYYY-MM-DD)	Status	Entry	Source	Description
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.
2023-03-08	Changed			Add the following logic to the filtering views and tables: Node association not deleted = include Node association deleted and course deleted = include Node association deleted and course not deleted = exclude

Continuous Delivery | Release to Production 08 March 2023
Developer, CDM Changes, Data Dictionary

Blackboard Learn SaaS CD Releases
Date (YYYY-MM-DD)	Status	Entry	Source	Description
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.
2023-03-08	Changed	Stage CDM_LMS.COURSE_ITEM.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.

Continuous Delivery | Release to Production 31 January 2023
Developer, CDM Changes, Data Dictionary

Blackboard Learn SaaS CD Releases
Date (YYYY-MM-DD)	Status	Entry	Source	Description
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.

Continuous Delivery | Release to Production 17 January 2023
Developer, CDM Changes, Data Dictionary

Blackboard Learn SaaS CD Releases
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.