About Smartschool:
Smartschool is dedicated to enhancing the learning experience for students by providing tools that empower educators. Smartschool's mission is to support educators with grading student work and providing instant, personalized feedback.
About the relationship:
Smartschool was getting several requests to connect with LMS providers to host even better experiences for their users (educators and students). Around this time, Smartschool’s CEO and Chief of Product, Matt Maslowski, connected with Edlink after receiving a tailored outreach email from Edlink’s Jimmy Louise. Interested to see how Edlink could help with their integration plans, Matt scheduled a meeting with Edlink’s Nick La Riza.
During their conversation, Matt explained that they were interested to see if there was a way to integrate with LMS and/or SIS providers to give educators and students a seamless experience with features like SSO, rostering, grade syncing, and assignment/content integration.
In one integration to Edlink, Smartschool could connect to +25 of the most popular LMS, SIS, and IAM providers with robust functionalities such as SSO, rostering, grade passback, and assignment sync. Edlink could support Smartschool with two types of SSO launches, from a login page and from a link within a learning institution's LMS to give their team flexible user experiences. Plus, by using Edlink’s 5-minute IT admin onboarding flow, learning institutions can connect and turn on their integrations in a self-guided and easy way. By choosing Edlink as their integration provider, Smartschool can launch integrations without having to spend thousands of dollars or hundreds of hours building integrations themselves.
When asked why Smartschool chose Edlink over anything else, Matt gave 3 reasons:
“I think there were three factors that were significant to us:
- great documentation and ease of implementation.
- outstanding communication (its speed & quality) and customer service.
- reasonable pricing & business model”
- Matt Maslowski, CEO and Chief of Product at Smartschool
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 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 Smartschool, visit www.joinsmartschool.com.
To learn more about Edlink, visit ed.link.
