System Administration Release Notes

Upcoming Change to people.csv (Anticipated for a July 2025 release) To support more accurate and flexible role management, Watermark will be removing the roles column from the people.csv file in a future release. All clients who wish to assign or update Watermark roles via CSV, ZIP, or API must transition to using the dedicated roles.csv file going forward. The roles.c...

Ability to Delete Sections and Cohorts Users will now be able to manually delete course sections as well as cohorts in System Administration. From the main Sections page, a user can click into a course section to open its details page. If a message appears saying that the section cannot be deleted, it means that there is other core data within System Administration that...

Updated Error Message for Course Sections Import   While Section ID remains the primary key (aka unique identifier) for Course Sections and a validation will remain intact to ensure there are no duplicate Section IDs, there is another potential error in the Course Sections .csv import that may need to be addressed. This error now has improved messaging, which is as foll...

This release introduces: A "Roles" import in System Administration, which will allow for user roles to be updated or removed in bulk.  An improved user interface across multiple areas (See "Key Interface Updates" below for a list of changes) Introducing the Bulk Roles Import   We are excited to announce a major update with the release of the Roles import, a new featur...

Ability Bulk Import Insights_Hub Roles via CSV System Administrators are now able to import Insights Hub roles in bulk through the people.csv file. The ability to add Insights Hub roles manually through the user interface of System Administration will still be available, but this added functionality allows an expedited way to import these roles in bulk. The following ro...

Transition from Email to Person_ID as Unique Identifier - Now Allows Bulk Email Update We transitioned from using email addresses to Person_IDs as the unique identifier for people in the system. This change enhances data accuracy and ensures a more reliable and consistent identification process. Key Updates: Person_IDs as Primary Identifier: Person_IDs will now serve a...

Updated User Interface for People, Courses & Course Sections System Admin has updated the front-end user interface for courses, sections and people, with small enhancements such as: Create and Edit now in a Flyout Search and Select design component when choosing a Parent Organization now available   New search and select component when choosing a parent organization....

Updates to Import Status Notifications & Downloadable Error Reports Updates to Import Process & Error Reporting The import process for all individual CSV Imports as well as new ZIP and API imports in System Administration now are processed through one central pipeline that acts as a queue. This supports the new bulk import API as well as boosts performance overall for S...

New! Ability to Bulk Import Data into System Administration using ZIP folder System Administration will now have a bulk file upload option, which allows System Administrators to combine up to all 11 data import CSV files into one single ZIP folder import. This compresses the time spent routinely adding and updating data. Downloadable Error Report* When data is processed...

Editing Email Addresses in User Interface System Administrators are able to update email addresses & person_IDs in the System Administration module. These changes will then propagate to integrated products (Planning & Self-Study and Student Learning & Licensure). Updating emails through a CSV import is not currently available. Updating person_IDs can be done through t...

Ability to Align Courses to Programs (aka Program Curriculum) Manually in UI In the System Administration user interface (UI) there is now functionality to create, update and remove program to course alignment. Importing program curriculum through a CSV import will continue to be an option and suggested for bulk program curriculum imports and updates. In the UI, System ...

  In this release, we have added multiple Search functions to the System Administration interface. We also expanded the data validations that prevent duplicates when entering Organizations and Programs, and corrected the ability to update Terms.    Searching by Program Name or Code along with filtering option now available In System Administration, under the Programs ta...