Client Announcement: Kaplan, Inc.
About Kaplan, Inc.:
Kaplan, Inc. (Kaplan) is a global educational services company offering a broad portfolio of solutions to help students and professionals further their education and careers. Kaplan also assists universities and educational institutions in attracting and supporting students, and helps businesses maximize employee recruitment, retention, and development. With thousands of employees working in 26 countries, Kaplan serves approximately 1.2 million students and professionals, 13,000 corporate clients, and 4,000 schools, school districts, colleges, and universities worldwide.
About the relationship:
Kaplan’s Mick Demakos recently changed positions within the company, putting him in a better position to impact Kaplan’s range of products. Recognizing an opportunity with LMS integrations, Mick reached out to Edlink’s Amanda Goodson and Dakota Gordon, whom he had met at a previous edtech company. Together, they brainstormed potential solutions, and with Edlink as a possible integration partner, the conversation continued with Kaplan’s Eitan Dantzig.
During their discussions, Mick and Eitan shared Kaplan’s challenges and goals. Kaplan saw significant opportunities by offering integrations through its platform, starting with its nursing and medical school customers. These users — students, educators, and institutional staff — needed an easy way to pass data like class rosters and grades between Kaplan’s platform and their LMS rather than the current cumbersome and inefficient process. Kaplan needed to connect to several LMS providers and facilitate seamless data transfer without wasting development dollars and time. By the end of their talks, Edlink was chosen as Kaplan’s integration partner.
By building 1 integration to Edlink, Kaplan gains connections to top LMS providers like Canvas, Moodle, and D2L’s Brightspace. Edlink’s connections support essential features such as single sign-on, rostering, and grade passback, eliminating the data transfer headache for Kaplan users. With Edlink as its integration partner, Kaplan is ready to offer more integrations than ever before without spending thousands of dollars or hundreds of hours on building these integrations.
About Edlink:
Edlink is the fastest and easiest way to integrate your learning platform with school data systems. Working with Edlink's Unified API saves development teams from headaches, accelerates time-to-market for operational teams, and helps sales teams win more deals.
Edlink currently supports 100+ edtech companies and helps over 40 million people use their edtech products seamlessly with their school’s LMS, SIS, and identity management platform (like Clever and ClassLink). We’re trusted to exchange sensitive data securely by edtech companies, school IT administrators, and district leaders in over 4,000 educational institutions, and growing.
To learn more about Kaplan College, visit www.kaplan.com
To learn more about Edlink, visit ed.link.