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Welcome the Anthology Illuminate Community Group!

By joining this group, you will share your experiences of Illuminate with your peers and receive support and updates from the product team. You will also have the opportunity to participate in our focus groups, office hours, surveys, discussion topics etc. 
 

Office Hours

Please sign up for any of the Office Hours by registering in their webpage and add calendar reoccurrence:
- Illuminate Core Office Hours: https://learn.anthology.com/illuminate-office-hours
*Sessions are held on the third Wednesday of every month.

- Illuminate Premium Office Hours: https://learn.anthology.com/enhanced-reporting-office-hours  
*Sessions are held on the second Tuesday of every month.

You'll find links to the Office Hours recordings and related resources on this page: Session Recordings & links

Focus Groups

Please sign up for any Focus Group sessions by registering for the meeting listed on the right side. Focus groups are limited to fifteen individuals, so please only register if you plan to attend, and if you have registered and then find you’re not going to be available (we appreciate these things happen), please de-register so that someone can take your place.
 

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Maria Ortiz
New Illuminate Course - Register at no extra cost!
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We are excited to announce that a new Illuminate Reporting Course is now available! Register here: ...
Maria Ortiz Category Illuminate 24d
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Letitia Davis Letitia Davis 6d

@Maria Ortiz
I'm not able to open the course catalog. Is there another method we'd use to register?

Toby Nutting Toby Nutting 5d

@Maria Ortiz

Yep, the top button is looping and not showing the catalogue or letting me create an account

Colleen Cameron
New Illuminate Course Link
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Hi! Is it possible to get the link to the new Anthology Illuminate course? I missed the office hours and the QR code in the slides doesn't seem to be working. Thank you!
Colleen Cameron Category Illuminate Jul '25
Open for Comments
Steve Bailey Steve Bailey Jul '25

Apologies, I haven't got round to sharing this in the community group yet. T here's no direct link to it so here's the ...

Colleen Cameron Colleen Cameron Jul '25

Thank you! @Steve Bailey

Jeremy Gebhart
Querying Classroom Attendance
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Hello, My university would like to be able to query attendance for some of our courses. The snippet below is in one of our test courses, but i can't find a way to query it. Does anyone know what table the below attendance information ...
Jeremy Gebhart Category Illuminate Jul '25
Open for Comments
Ricky Windom Ricky Windom 18d

@Jeremy Gebhart I do not think that data is in Illuminate or at least I could not find it in LMS tables (they seem to be ...

Evan Lewis
User Activity in Specific Course ...
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I wasn't certain where to share, but I've modified the session-activity-by-role to show me a specific user activity (in minutes) how many clicks the user made and whether said user was on mobile or not. Please let me know if this is not ...
Evan Lewis Category Illuminate Jul '25
Open for Comments
Helen Hu
Having trouble waking up illuminate
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Hello there, We had our Illuminate set up a while ago, but we are having trouble waking up Illuminate at our institution. Is there something we can do to wake up our system and begin using it based on our hierarchies? We had a meeting with ...
Helen Hu Category Illuminate Jul '25
Open for Comments
Steven Chippendale
Joining an uploaded dataset to a Blackboard table
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Can anyone please let me know if they have had any success joining an uploaded CSV to an existing table? From a supplied list of hundreds of students, I have generated a list, used Illuminate to get their Blackboard IDs, then created a CSV ...
Steven Chippendale Category Illuminate Jun '25
Open for Comments
Steve Bailey Steve Bailey Jun '25

@Steven Chippendale I've just tested this and it worked for me. Some considerations from my testing:

  • The preview ...
      Steven Chippendale Steven Chippendale Jun '25

      @Steve Bailey Thank you so much Steve!

      My issue was indeed that I wasn't monitoring the ‘Refresh’ tab. Upon ...

      Gunay Rustamova
      How are you using Illuminate Reports at your ...
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      Hi colleagues, I would like to learn about your experiences with the use of Illuminate reports at your institutions. Specifically, to whom have you granted access to view these reports? We are considering providing access to deans at ...
      Gunay Rustamova Category Illuminate Apr '25
      Open for Comments
      Sherry Lynn Boyd Sherry Lynn Boyd Jun '25

      @Gunay Rustamova I am an instructional designer for a nursing school (node) at a university. I had requested ...

      Steve Bailey Steve Bailey Jun '25
      Hi Sherry Boyd ‍, thanks for sharing your plans. This is definitely a use case we designed Illuminate to support, so ...
      Jamie Crustals
      Need for True Survey Preview
      1 9
      We just purchased Evaluate. It's going to be super helpful for us! But we are in need of a true “student preview" experience in order to properly guide our learners. Right now, we don't have that option. Is there a true “survey preview” ...
      Jamie Crustals Category Illuminate Mar '25
      Open for Comments
      Sherry Lynn Boyd Sherry Lynn Boyd Jun '25

      @Jamie Crustals I feel your pain!. I had asked the same question. We started using Evaluate this past spring. I ...

      Annette Ingram
      Pre-built report definitions?
      4 56
      Hello. I'm new to the reports and I'm looking at the pre-built reports. Is there a report dictionary somewhere that tells what the report columns are actually looking at or what each column is defined? Let me explain. I ran Learning > ...
      Annette Ingram Category Illuminate Mar '25
      Open for Comments
      Steve Bailey Steve Bailey Apr '25
      Apologies for the late response to this. The hours per week is the total time divided by the duration of the course in ...
      Robert Farmer Robert Farmer May '25

      Hi @Annette Ingram , RE: “ Is there a report dictionary somewhere that tells what the report columns are actually ...

      Craig Pember
      Orginal VS Ultra Courses
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      It would be nice to have an Illuminate report that would show us the total number of Original courses and Ultra courses per defined term. It would be beneficial to have a report under the ‘Leading’ section in Illuminate. I believe that it ...
      Craig Pember Category Illuminate Jun '25
      Open for Comments
      Maria Ortiz Maria Ortiz Jun '25

      Hi @Craig Pember , Thanks for sharing that idea. In order to others can vote for it, can you post it in idea exchange ...

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