Notas de la versión 2026

Administrators can now assign roles to users in Illuminate Settings, eliminating the need to manage roles through SAML groups or the Blackboard Administrator Panel. This streamlines user management by reducing dependencies on external platforms and prevents operational bottlenecks.

Institutional authentication is still managed through Blackboard or SAML. After the initial connection to the identity provider, administrators can manage all users, roles, and permissions directly from Illuminate Settings.

Assign roles to an Illuminate user

To assign role permissions for a user, from Settings in Illuminate, select License management. Then, under Actions, select Edit for the user to update. On the Edit User page, select which roles to assign.

Image 1. Edit user page in Illuminate where you can assign roles and permissions

These are the roles available in Illuminate:

• Administrators: Have full platform access, including settings, Snowflake access, and read access to all pre-built reports and data.

• Authors (exclusive for Illuminate Premium): Can create custom reports, have Snowflake access, and by default can view all pre-built reports and data, with permissions configurable.

• Viewers: Have read-only access to pre-built reports, with no data permissions assigned by default, ensuring data security.

Notes

• If institutional authentication is already configured, no additional steps are required. 

• Existing users currently listed in the user list will remain in place, and their roles will be reflected in Illuminate without requiring any additional configuration. 

• Users who previously had roles configured in Blackboard or SAML but have never logged into Illuminate will not appear in the user list and will need to be created again. 

• Users without any assigned roles can still log into Illuminate, but they will not have any permissions within the platform. These users do not occupy a licensed user seat, allowing administrators to manage license capacity efficiently.

Delete Illuminate users or remove their roles

In a recent release, we introduced the ability to delete Viewer users. Administrators can now delete other Administrators or Authors. Administrators can also remove roles from users to reassign them to other users.

Delete a user

From Settings in Illuminate, select License management. Then, under Actions, select Delete for the user to remove.

Image 1. The Delete option for removing users

Nota

Because Authors can create and own custom report content, additional safeguards are in place to ensure data security. When you delete an Author with saved content, you can choose to transfer their content to another Author or to all Authors. If the content transfer fails, the deletion process stops automatically to prevent any data loss.

Image 2. Content transfer prompt for choosing where to transfer the deleted author's content.

Notes

• Once a user is deleted, they immediately lose access to the platform. This action cannot be undone.

• Administrators cannot delete themselves or remove their own Administrator role.

Remove roles from an Administrator or Author

From Settings in Illuminate, select License management. Under Actions, select Edit for the user to update. On the Edit User page, clear the checkboxes for the roles to remove.

For customers with Illuminate Premium, data for AI Conversations is now included in the Blackboard source tables in Illuminate. The new data is available in the LEARN schema in Snowflake. This update is retroactive and includes historical AI Conversations data.

With this data, you can identify these items:

Image 1. Query to analyze AI Conversations in Snowflake

New columns included in LEARN schema are:

Las tablas de origen de Blackboard ya están disponibles para los clientes de Illuminate Premium alojados en la región de AWS en EE. UU., que incluye Norteamérica, Centroamérica y Sudamérica. Esto significa que las tablas de origen de Blackboard ya están implementadas en todas las regiones compatibles con Illuminate.

Illuminate Premium incluye 183 tablas del esquema abierto de la base de datos de Blackboard. Estas tablas de origen están disponibles en Snowflake como vistas en el esquema LEARN y se actualizan cada 4 horas. Nota: Estas tablas no están incluidas en el diccionario de datos. Más información sobre Illuminate Premium y las tablas de fuentes de Blackboard incluidas en Illuminate.

Imagen 1. Una consulta a las tablas de origen del esquema LEARN en Snowflake.

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:

Image 1: Query in Snowflake showing CDM_LMS views.

Las cuentas de servicio de Snowflake en Illuminate permiten establecer conexiones seguras de máquina a máquina para extraer datos de Illuminate y enviarlos a herramientas externas, como plataformas de BI para la generación de informes o almacenes de datos.

Illuminate Core incluye una cuenta de servicio de Snowflake. Ahora, los clientes de Illuminate Premium pueden solicitar cuentas de servicio Snowflake adicionales enviando un ticket de soporte. Los administradores pueden ver todas las Cuentas de servicio en Configuración de Illuminate, en el menú Configuración de Snowflake.

Las cuentas de servicio múltiples ofrecen más control, ya que permiten a los administradores asignar cuentas dedicadas a equipos o a fines específicos y administrar de forma independiente las contraseñas y las restricciones de IP.

Obtenga más información sobre las cuentas de servicio de Snowflake y cómo aplicarles restricciones de direcciones IP.

Imagen 1. Dos cuentas de servicio de Snowflake en la configuración de Illuminate.