We can no longer pretend that the student data privacy problem in K-12 schools doesn’t exist or that traditional rostering services don’t exacerbate that risk. It’s time to acknowledge that duplicating data and spreading it across multiple third-party servers is unsafe for student data privacy, staff privacy, and overall cybersecurity. There is a better way.
SchoolDay eliminates the student data privacy problem by eliminating the need to share student personally identifiable information (PII), by safely exchanging data with any edtech product. The platform is easy for schools and vendors to implement and prevents the unsafe proliferation of student data across thousands of platforms.
Revolutionizing Integration, Interoperability, and Secure Data Exchange
SchoolDay is the next step in the edtech revolution, providing a single solution for interoperability, integration, and secure data exchange that moves K-12 schools beyond traditional rostering, allowing edtech vendors to:
- Onboard any school in minutes
- Integrate with any learning management system (LMS)
- Benefit from a single sign-on for access to any app
- Protect data with tokenized communications platform as a service (CPaaS)
The SchoolDay and 1EdTech Connection
SchoolDay is a proud member of the 1EdTech community. 1EdTech (formerly IMS Global), is a community of leaders across K-12, higher education, and edtech suppliers who are committed to building an open, trusted, and innovative digital learning ecosystem at every level. Representing 28 countries, the 890-member organization, including SchoolDay, brings people together to enable an innovative and future-ready digital learning ecosystem. With the combined power of SchoolDay and LTI integration, schools and edtech vendors have a significant advantage, including:
- Verified compatibility: The connecting of district information systems to digital learning technology is streamlined.
- Better data quality: When sharing and synchronizing data, all the required data elements are present and correct.
- Effective data governance: Data being shared is accounted for and in compliance with 1EdTech standards.
SchoolDay’s zero-trust data exchange ecosystem is easy to implement for schools and vendors, exchanges data with any edtech application, and eliminates the need to share school PII, solving the student data privacy problem.
What Is Learning Tools Interoperability?
Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI), developed by 1EdTech, is a plug-and-play data exchange standard that allows schools to securely integrate third-party learning tools into their LMS. Schools can easily integrate with apps, their chosen learning management system, and even on-premises and cloud portals in only a few clicks. LTI integration makes it possible for students and staff to use the same credentials across all of the apps they use. Navigation is seamless and information is exchanged securely.
Benefits of LTI Integration
There are many benefits of being part of the 1EdTech community and using LTI integration, including:
- Automation that saves time
- Secure data exchange that protects PII
- Enhanced user experience
1EdTech’s LTI standard is a technical standard (not a product) used to connect learning tools with an institution’s learning environment without logging into each tool. LTI supports a high level of security for passing user data, their institutional enrollment, and roles.
Why SchoolDay?
SchoolDay is an all-in-one secure data exchange ecosystem tailored to your school district’s unique needs and challenges. Easily implemented, SchoolDay alleviates cumbersome data transfer processes, lets you quickly identify your data privacy risks, and provides the necessary tools to control your data flow and minimize those risks.
SchoolDay CEO Robert Iskander points out:
SchoolDay eliminates the need to share student PII with every vendor and uses easy-to-implement anonymization services to eliminate the need to duplicate student PII with every vendor that a school district might work with.
SchoolDay can help your school solve the student data privacy problem with our zero trust data exchange ecosystem. Together, we can make a better, more robust, and sustainable solution that addresses the biggest challenges in education data exchange.
SchoolDay and OneRoster
For most edtech companies, accessing student information system (SIS) data from client schools is one of the biggest challenges they face. Exchanging data between a school and an edtech vendor – rostering – is usually a pull and push process in which data is extracted from the SIS and then pushed to the vendor. The problem with traditional rostering is that the data exchange adds enormous risk to personally identifiable information (PII) because the information is copied and pasted to each vendor. This is a problem that does not get enough attention, especially now that schools are working with as many as 1,500 different vendors. There are several different rostering platforms and standards to be aware of – and it can become confusing.
SchoolDay, by providing edtech vendors with immediate access to over 40 SIS companies, is proving to be a true game changer for vendors who are trying to reach more schools, regardless of the SIS they choose. Vendor members can quickly and easily send data access requests to schools and districts that are using SchoolDay for zero-trust data exchange. The vendor must simply search for the school client in the global search window after logging in.
OneRoster is an industry standard format for the exchange of SIS data with other systems. Developed by 1EdTech, OneRoster gives schools and vendors a way to securely and reliably exchange roster information, enabling the sharing of class rosters, course materials, and grades between a school’s SIS and edtech applications. For vendors that have completed the compatibility check, OneRoster guarantees ecosystem interoperability and identifies product matches among certified digital resources on a user-friendly dashboard.
The OneRoster compatibility check is an integration testing and issue resolution service that guarantees ecosystem interoperability. Compatibility check features include characterization, verification, and comparisons. And because OneRoster uses the 1EdTech security framework, schools and vendors can be certain of the security and interoperability of the data management journey.
Benefits of OneRoster
OneRoster is a standard for securely sharing student information between different systems, such as a student information system (SIS) and a learning management system (LMS). One of the main benefits of using OneRoster is the ability to streamline data management and reduce errors. With OneRoster, student data is automatically synced between systems, eliminating the need for manual data entry, and reducing the risk of errors.
OneRoster is not only secure and reliable for schools and edtech vendors, but it saves time, too. OneRoster uses industry standard APIs like OAuth, which allows applications to obtain roster data quickly and easily. OneRoster is continuously improved with upgrades to make it more secure and more efficient for schools and edtech vendors to use. For vendors using SchoolDay in tandem with OneRoster, traditional rostering challenges currently putting data privacy at risk are eliminated.
Overcome Rostering Privacy Threats
The habit of duplicating student data has become commonplace, allowing for increased ransomware attacks and even lawsuits. SchoolDay is breaking this habit, minimizing the attack surface area. Our cutting-edge technology solves the problem that traditional rostering vendors have created.
SchoolDay doesn’t just monitor and control PII data exchange. It is designed for so much more. Unlike traditional rostering services, SchoolDay uses easy-to-implement anonymization services to eliminate the need to duplicate student PII with every vendor. The platform empowers district IT staff to seamlessly exchange data between technology vendors and tools.
SchoolDay keeps your student data safe while our robust API framework facilitates any use case, even handling complex cases like communication workflows, badging, and certification reunification. Authentication, personalization, and account creation are all made possible while limiting the sharing of PII with vendors. Vendors can easily adopt SchoolDay and participate in the anonymized data exchange without changes to their applications.
SchoolDay safeguards student privacy and educational data by providing a secure ecosystem orchestration platform for schools and classrooms. Serving over 36,000 schools, 3,000+ districts and colleges, and hundreds of EdTech vendors, SchoolDay champions open standards and secure data exchange, solidifying its role as a trusted leader in educational technology. Visit www.schoolday.com for more information.
