What is Anthology Illuminate?
Anthology Illuminate is an analytics and reporting platform for higher education institutions. It unifies data from multiple Anthology solutions—such as Blackboard®, and Anthology® Student —into a centralized data model. This eliminates data silos and provides a single source of truth for institutional reporting and analysis.
Illuminate can help support student success by detecting patterns in grades, attendance, and engagement to enable early interventions. It also supports strategic planning by providing leadership with actionable insights for resource allocation, program development, and budgeting.
What can I do with Illuminate?
Institutional Reporting: Generate standard reports for compliance, accreditation, and operational metrics without manual data gathering.
Custom Dashboards and Visualizations: Build dashboards tailored to academic programs, enrollment trends, or financial performance using drag-and-drop tools or SQL queries.
Data Exploration and Q&A: Use the Data Q&A feature to ask questions in natural language (e.g., “What is the retention rate for first-year students?”) and receive instant visual answers.
Cross-System Insights: Combine LMS engagement data with SIS records to identify at-risk students and improve retention strategies.
Third-Party Data Integration: Extend analytics by importing external datasets for a holistic institutional view.