About Hats & Ladders:
Since 2016, Hats & Ladders has built an engaging platform that motivates young people to explore, experiment, and prepare for real-world careers. With educational games, interactive experiences, and tools to help youth navigate the world of work, they aim to build bridges between aspiring talent and future opportunities.
About the relationship:
Hats & Ladders first connected with Edlink at a time when they were relying on Clever. As Hats & Ladders began expanding to other schools, so did their needs, like supporting other identity providers and the flexibility to meet new district requirements. At the same time, the team was mindful of engineering resources and didn’t want to rebuild their hosted UI or take on the cost of developing one-off integrations.
After meeting with Edlink, Doug Stein, Director of Engineering at Hats & Ladders, shared that originally, the team was only focused on connecting to Clever and ClassLink. But when faced with recent roadblocks, the team needed to accelerate their roadmap for LMS and SIS integrations sooner than anticipated.
By choosing Edlink as their integration partner, Hats & Ladders now has a flexible, future-ready solution. Edlink’s Unified API allows the Hats & Ladders team to expand integrations without reworking their UI, support a variety of identity management providers, and save development time and money. Through Edlink, the Hats & Ladders team can choose to roster from an identity provider or directly from the school’s SIS or LMS, depending on what fits the situation best. With Edlink, Hats & Ladders can focus on what they do best, empowering youth through meaningful, engaging career exploration.
“We chose Edlink because [they]:
- Engaged with our immediate problem thoughtfully.
- Recognized why [other identity providers] would have this problem.
- Avoided the problem with a better understanding of the subtleties of OIDC.
- Stuck with us until we both proved that Edlink would work as expected.
- Shorten the runway to get ClassLink up.
- Onboard customers in a friendly fashion,
and as a bonus, give us the means of accelerating our roadmap (ClassLink, CSV uploads, LMS support, reading class info from a SIS).”
- Douglas (Doug) Stein, Director of Engineering at Hats & Ladders
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 120+ edtech companies and helps over 75 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 5,000 educational institutions, and growing.
To learn more about Hats & Ladders, visit hatsandladders.com.
To learn more about Edlink, visit ed.link.