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LMS Integrations in 2024 for K12 and Higher Education: What You Need to Know

Check out the most recent update to LMS integrations for the upcoming year. Download it today for free!

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Schoology Integration Starter Kit

An all-in-one beginning guide to integrate with Schoology.

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LMS Integration in 2023 for K12 and Higher Education: What You Need to Know

Check out the most recent update to LMS integrations for the upcoming year. Download it today for free!

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Should I Integrate with Schoology or Google Classroom?

Consider these points if you are an edtech developer who needs to choose to build 1 integration over another.

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Updated | What EdTech Needs to Know about the 2021 Google Classroom Changes

Google released one of their largest updates ever to Google Classroom. Here's what you should know if you work in EdTech.

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4 Reasons Why Your Edtech Company Needs an Integration Partner

At Edlink we’ve integrated over 60 edtech companies, onboarded 25+ million users, and serve more than 2200 educational institutions – and growing! Here are some points to consider for edtech companies to find an integration partner (like Edlink).

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What is "LTI Integration"?

Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) is a data specification created by 1EdTech Consortium (formerly, IMS Global Learning Consortium; 1Edtech). Overall the specification helps learning tools (apps and other platforms) integrate with LMS providers.

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Rostering Students and Teachers in Your App: What Are Your Options?

Edtech products often need to know the identity of the users (like students and teachers) so they can provision accounts and allow logins. Retrieving data from one data provider to provision accounts in a different product is called rostering.

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LMS Integration in 2021 for K12 and Higher Education: What You Need to Know

We have updated this whitepaper since 2021 is long gone. Our newest version of this whitepaper is here - bit.ly/3EjA7Gd

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Google Classroom vs. Microsoft Teams: A Side-by-Side Integration Comparison

Both Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams are widely popular LMSs. Use this guide to compare each LMS and navigate upcoming development roadblocks.

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Challenges of Integrating with Blackboard

Blackboard Learn is one of the most widely used learning management systems in higher education and in K12. Blackboard can be hosted in onsite servers or deployed as a SaaS solution.

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5 Do-It-Yourself Tips for Building a Successful LMS Integration for EdTech Developers

Building new LMS integrations can be tricky. Here are five tips to keep in mind to help you create successful integrations.

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The Challenges of Integrating With Moodle

Many edtech companies integrate with Moodle because of RFP requests. As a popular LMS in education, developers should be aware of the following Moodle integration quirks before starting their builds.

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What's a Unified API?

Learn how Edlink's Unified API helps integrate edtech platforms into all of the major educational data systems.

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Common Pitfalls of LMS Integration

Companies getting started with LMS integrations may run into some common pitfalls. Many of these challenges aren't immediately apparent and can cause serious delays. Here's a short list of some of the most typical, but frustrating roadblocks developers could run into.

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How to Create a Moodle Integration

Integration with Moodle works a bit differently than some of the other major LMSs (like Canvas, Schoology, and Blackboard). Edtech developers can integrate through 2 main methods. Moodle can integrate through the LTI standard or a Moodle plugin.

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API vs. LTI Integration for Brightspace (D2L)

Brightspace by D2L is a popular LMS among large K12 districts in Canada and the United States. There are 2 methods to integrate with Brightspace, through the API or through the LTI standard. This article will cover each method and how to use them.

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Google Workspace for Education: What Edtech Developers Should Know

On February 17, 2021, Google announced its line of revamped educational offerings called Google Workspace for Education. This new platform makes several changes to Google's platform that are relevant for edtech developers and vendors. Here are those changes.

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How to Use the Blackboard API

Learn how the Blackboard API can integrate third-party apps to use SSO, rostering, content integration, and grade passback.

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Does Schoology Support LTI 1.3 or LTI Advantage?

LTI is a specification from 1EdTech Consortium (1EdTech) that allows external learning tools (learning apps, platforms, etc.) to integrate with LMS providers. In the mix of popular LMS providers is Schoology, who until recently, only supported previous versions.

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How to Implement Blackboard SSO

Blackboard users can sign into platforms: SSO through the Blackboard API (OAuth 2.0) and SSO through the LTI standard launch.

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How to Implement SSO with D2L Brightspace

Brightspace supports two different SSO methods that apps can use to sign users into Brightspace: SSO through the Brightspace API (OAuth 2.0) and SSO through LTI launch.

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How to Implement Single Sign-On With Schoology

Implementing single sign-on with an LMS is never easy. With Schoology, there are 2 different ways for developers to do this. We’ll also cover some challenges to expect along the way.

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Save Time on Your LMS Integrations

Building one integration within edtech is hard enough. So looking to scale integrations can easily become overwhelming (at least in our experience!). Here’s how we’ve changed that.

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Edtech Vendors Can Stay Ahead with LMS Integrations

Product interoperability can keep edtech vendors competitive. At the same time, these connections can deliver needed assets for learning institutions.