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Illuminate June 2025 Release
Continuous Delivery | Release to Production 11 June 2025
CDM Changes, Data Dictionary, Developer, New Features, Reporting, Updated Features
Our June 2025 release of Illuminate includes:
Video Studio data available in Snowflake for Illuminate Core clients
A new CDM_MEDIA sub-model that contains Video Studio usage data is now available in Snowflake for Illuminate Core clients. The existing CDM_MAP schema has been updated to map users and courses between CDM_MEDIA and CDM_LMS. Entities are documented in the data dictionary.
Blackboard source tables available in Snowflake for Illuminate Premium clients
The transactional database for Blackboard is normally only available to Direct Data Access customers. 191 tables from Blackboard’s Open Database Schema are now available to Illuminate Premium clients in Canada, Sydney, and Singapore. Deployment to the EU and the USA will follow in later releases. These entities are available in Snowflake as views in a new LEARN schema within the existing Illuminate database. Note that these are not documented in the data dictionary, but existing documentation is available on our help pages.
This release also includes the following bug fixes:
Learning
- Fixed an issue with Student Summary where some visuals were filtered based on course start date instead of activity date. Minor improvements were also released.
- Fixed an issue with Social & Collaborative Engagement which excluded inactive students due to date filtering based on last access instead of course creation date.
Leading
- Fixed an issue with Learning Tools Adoption where some tool types were not included.
Teaching
- Fixed an issue with Course Summary where the Student Engagement and Performance tab included data from non-student roles.
Illuminate Developer Canonical Data Model changes
Continuous Delivery | Release to Production 11 June 2025
CDM Changes, Data Dictionary
| Date (YYYY-MM-DD) | Status | Entry | Source | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-10 | Added | CDM_MAP.PERSON.MEDIA_PERSON_ID | Anthology Illuminate | Foreign key that references the primary key of the CDM_MEDIA.PERSON entity. |
| 2025-06-10 | Added | CDM_MAP.COURSE.MEDIA_CONTAINER_ID | Anthology Illuminate | Foreign key that references the primary key of the CDM_MEDIA.CONTAINER entity. |
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.
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