Illuminate Core and Premium Features
Illuminate offers a flexible subscription model to support your institution's needs:
Illuminate Core: Blackboard LMS customers in supported regions receive standard functionality at no additional cost.License Entitlements and Feature Availability
Illuminate Premium: Institutions aiming to advance their data-informed decision-making can purchase modular premium enhancements.
Illuminate Core
Illuminate Core provides the following functionality across the two tiers of Developer and Reporting:
Developer
A Canonical Data Model (CDM) combining data from across your eligible licensed Blackboard solutions and restructuring it for easier querying.
A Data Dictionary that provides detailed information about every table and column in the canonical data model and the interactive Entity Relationship Diagrams (ERDs).
Access to Telemetry data from the eligible licensed Blackboard solutions providing more granular click-stream data.
Read-only, direct access to query this database using standard SQL in Snowflake.
A self-managed service account that can be used to connect third-party solutions, such as BI tools to Snowflake.
350 Snowflake credits per month.
A Snowflake credit is approximately one hour of query processing in Snowflake, and so over 11 hours per day of processing time in this quota are provided.
The number of credits remaining in the current month is shown on the Settings page.
Note
Although Snowflake is used to provide Illuminate Developer benefits, not all Snowflake features are available and supported.
Important
If the monthly 350 Snowflake credits run out, no queries can run until the credit count resets at the end of the month.
Reporting
A suite of pre-built reports that are designed to support data-informed decision-making by end-users such as academic management, EdTech leadership and student support.
30 Viewer seat licenses for read-only access to the reports.
Note
Institutions with native authentication have 20 seat licenses instead of 30. To request institutional authentication at no additional cost, create a support ticket.
Role-Based Access that enables securely limited access to reports based on a user’s role at the institution (e.g. Dean of Humanities can only access data from Humanities courses)
The ability to export data, download reports as PDF for sharing and printing, and exporting visuals as CSV for further analysis.
Data Q&A functionality that enables Administrators, Viewers, and Authors to explore available data across curated "topics” in natural language and generate visualizations in answer to their questions in real-time and without technical expertise.
Note
Currently, one topic is provided – Student Activity, Engagement and Performance.
Tip
If Illuminate Reporting is not accessed for 30 days, the system will enter sleep mode and must be “woken up” when a user next attempts to access a report.
Platform Capabilities
Institutional Authentication (Single Sign-On) using your choice of SAML or Blackboard LMS as identity provider.
System roles to control who can access Reporting, Developer and other features.
Use your Blackboard Institutional Hierarchy to filter pre-built reports and manage user permissions.
Important
Illuminate Core features are subject to change at Blackboard’s sole discretion.
Illuminate Premium
Our premium packages include all core features, plus additional reporting capabilities.
Premium Reporting
Custom Reports functionality that enables institutions to build reports tailored to their specific data reporting needs, using the embedded BI tool Amazon QuickSight. Custom reports are deployed alongside the Core pre-built reports, having the same look and feel.
Author seats for creating and managing custom reports. (Total number of seats determined by the package size purchased.)
Additional Viewer seats based on the package size purchased to enable broader deployment of the Core pre-built reports.
Access to a selected set of Blackboard LMS source tables to enable broader data access and deeper analysis.
Note
Sleep mode (described above) is not applied to Premium Reporting.
Comparison of Feature Packages
These are the modules and packages currently available to purchase in Illuminate Core and Premium.
Edition | Core | Premium | |||
Package | Lite | Standard | Pro | Enterprise | |
Pre-Built reports* | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Reporting and data permissions | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Snowflake credits per month | 350 | 350 | 350 | 350 | 350 |
Snowflake Service Accounts |
| Multiple | Multiple | Multiple | Multiple |
Data Q&A | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Custom report creation |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Author Seats |
| 2 | 5 | 10 | 20 |
Viewer Seats |
| 50 | 100 | 200 | 500 |
Access to a set of Blackboard LMS source tables |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Note
*Reports included are standard across all package sizes
Current availability of Illuminate features by region
Blackboard LMS Hosting Region* | Illuminate Technical Availability | Illuminate Developer | Illuminate Reporting |
|---|---|---|---|
US-East-1 (USA) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
CA-Central-1 (Canada) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
EU-Central-1 (EU-Frankfurt) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
AP-Southeast-1 (AP-Singapore) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
AP-Southeast-2 (AP-Sydney) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
*Important Note: Illuminate can only access your Class Collaborate data if it is hosted in the same region as your Blackboard LMS.