—Please be advised that we will be rolling out an update to our Registration & Management (Genius) clients currently utilizing the AutoSignOn Building Block method for Single Sign-On between Registration & Management and Blackboard Learn.

—This document provides information and support regarding how data is handled for South African institutions, as well as what SaaS features are available for instances located in South Africa.

—With the release of 3900.74, it is recommended that Self Hosted clients that use New Relic install the new version (8.5.0) in their environments.

—This feature provides peace of mind for Administrators by automatically creating an Archive of any Course on a Learn SaaS site that has had User activity since the last time the process ran. These Archives are stored in the Content Collection, and are retained by the System for 30 days; after that, they are deleted.

—Great work is happening across the education community, and we can’t wait to celebrate it. Nominations are open through March 3. Submit your nomination today!

—Microsoft DataSense is used by a limited number of K12 school districts in the United States to integrate Blackboard Learn with their Student Information System (SIS) solutions. Microsoft will end support for DataSense in 2023. Anthology will transition affected clients to an alternative solution in the coming months. More details will be provided in early 2023.

—To improve performance, archive packages created automatically for individual courses in Learn SaaS will be retained for 30 days. When a course has no activity for 30 days, all backups are deleted automatically. Administrators shouldn’t rely on the automatic archive process to retrieve data older than 30 days. As before, storage used by these course archive packages will not be part of the client storage utilization count. We continue to encourage administrators to make backups of all courses after the end of a term and to store those in external storage to comply with local policy and law regarding data retention. When a course is deleted, it will continue to be archived; this behavior is unchanged at this time.

—This bulletin pertains only to the navigation for those organizations and institutions on the SaaS deployment of the Blackboard Learn. It does not relate to courses in any way.

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