2026 Release Notes
Continuous Delivery | Release to Production 31 January 2026
CDM Changes, Data Dictionary, Developer
Illuminate January 2026 Release
Blackboard source tables available in Snowflake for Illuminate Premium clients in America region
Blackboard source tables are now available for Illuminate Premium clients hosted in the US AWS region, covering North, Central, and South America. This means Blackboard source tables are now deployed across all supported Illuminate regions.
Illuminate Premium includes 183 tables from Blackboard’s Open Database Schema. These source tables are available in Snowflake as views in the LEARN schema and refresh every 4 hours. Note: These tables are not documented in the data dictionary. Learn more about Illuminate Premium and Blackboard source tables included in Illuminate.
Image 1. A query with LEARN schema source tables in Snowflake.
Important
If you have Illuminate Premium, these source tables are included in your current license with no additional setup required.
Note
In some accounts, source tables will appear in the LEARN schema by the first week of February 2026 due to incremental delivery processes.
America region migration to Multi-tenant architecture
We completed the migration of the Blackboard Canonical Data Model (CDM_LMS) to a multi-tenant deployment for institutions hosted in the US AWS region. This update provides a more reliable data connection method.
The US region includes institutions in North, Central, and South America. With this milestone, the multi-tenant migration is now complete across all regions supported by Illuminate.
You can check whether your instance is multi-tenant by viewing CDM_LMS in Snowflake. Multi-tenant instances have data organized in views while single-tenant instances have data organized in tables.
Key considerations:
Your Snowflake queries may take longer to load.
If you are extracting data from Illuminate into Power BI, update to the latest version of the Power BI app that supports Snowflake views.
If you are using Looker Studio or Qlik, use SQL queries instead of the Wizard-based connection method.
Image 1: Query in Snowflake showing CDM_LMS views.
Multiple Snowflake Service Accounts for Premium
Snowflake Service Accounts in Illuminate enable secure machine-to-machine connections for extracting data from Illuminate to external tools, such as BI platforms for reporting or data warehouses.
Illuminate Core includes one Snowflake Service Account. Now, Illuminate Premium clients can request additional Snowflake Service Accounts by submitting a support ticket. Administrators can view all Service Accounts in Illuminate Settings under the Snowflake settings menu.
Multiple Service Accounts provide greater control, allowing administrators to assign dedicated accounts to specific teams or purposes and manage passwords and IP restrictions independently.
Learn more about Snowflake Service Accounts and how to apply IP address restrictions to them.
Image 1. Two Snowflake Service Accounts listed in Illuminate settings.
