Sync data from Blackbaud

Market View 6, released in fall 2022, enables schools to sync admissions data from their admission software. This guide walks you through how to set this up.

Overview

Audience

This guide is for schools who are NAIS members, and use Blackbaud for admissions or application data.

After one person at your school completes this process, the integration will work for everyone at your school. Each user should use their own login. Any NAIS member school can have unlimited staff accounts. Add and manage your school's roster at my.nais.org.

Goal

This integration syncs two types of data from Blackbaud into Market View.

  1. Applicants. If it exists, we will sync names, grades, addresses, and student IDs for students who applied to your school.

  2. Enrollments. If it exists, we will sync names, grades, addresses, and student IDs for students who enrolled in your school.

Market View is committed to the highest security of your data. We encrypt all data in transit from your admission software, and any time it is used. We encrypt the data within our database. Your data will never leave our database or be shared. We take data security and privacy extremely seriously. Read more about how Market View protects your data.

Step 1: Give yourself permissions in Blackbaud

You'll need to go to Core > Security > Roles. (Do not try to manage roles for this from the security/control panel area).

Find the role in the list and choose Manage Roles from the menu.

Go to Members, Add member and search for yourself to add.

You'll need these roles:

  1. Platform Manager or Environment Admin

  2. Academic Group Manager, Schedule Manager, or Platform Manager

  3. SKY API Data Sync

  4. Admissions Manager

Step 1: Add Market View to Blackbaud

This step must be performed by one of your school’s administrators of Blackbaud, someone with “Platform Manager”, "Environment Admin" or equivalent permissions. If you aren’t an admin, feel free to forward these instructions to someone who is.

Step 2: Authorize Market View

This step requires an admin user of Blackbaud with one of the following roles: Academic Group Manager, Schedule Manager, Platform Manager. In addition, the user must have the Admissions Manager role and Sky API Data Sync role. If that's not you, feel free to send these instructions to your administrator to complete.

Next steps

Get an error? Need more help? Email marketview@nais.org.

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