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What to expect when onboarding a school's LMS to Edlink Getting a school admin to connect to a client application through Edlink is the most important part of any integration. While Edlink has made the onboarding process as hassle-free as possible, there are still quirks clients might encounter.
Security Edlink just nailed our SOC 2 Type II Audit The Work Is Done—What’s the Big Deal?We promised to circle back once the audit wrapped, and here we are: Edlink has officially completed a SOC 2 Type
Data Integration 2025 Back to School Roadmap Back to school is almost upon us and the Edlink engineering team has been hard at work. Here’s a preview of some of the amazing new things you can
Product Updates Edtech developers can reconcile bad data with transformations Edtech developers don’t want incomplete data sent from schools. Without using Edlink, developers don’t have a good way to reconcile this data.
Product Updates 2024 Back to School Roadmap Back to school is almost upon us and the Edlink engineering team has been hard at work. Here’s a preview of some of the things you can expect us to ship in the next 8 weeks.
Product Updates Bug fixes & quality of life improvements Back to school is in full swing and so is our engineering team. Here's a list of the recent changes and bug fixes to ensure that clients & their districts
Product Updates Say hey to Eddie Lynx, our new AI chatbot Not getting the help you need (when you need it most) can be a frustrating problem, regardless of your role. Maybe you're a software engineer who can't quite figure something
Product Updates Feature Highlight: Administrator Onboarding Flow A core responsibility of nearly every edtech company is onboarding new customers. As technology evolves and customer requirements become more complex, getting users up and running is becoming more difficult
Product Updates Check out Edlink's new Data Validation capabilities We're thrilled to release an often requested feature: Data Validation. Developers ask us all the time if we're able to ensure that school data is in the correct format to
Product Updates Feature Highlight: Keeping Student Data Secure With Two-Factor Authentication The introduction of educational technology and online learning platforms has dramatically improved the lives of millions of students and teachers around the world. Classroom technology products have to work together
Single Sign-On (SSO) Rolling out support for Renweb FACTS and OneLogin SSO The engineering team has been busy lately. This week, we're proud to announce support for two new systems: Renweb FACTS and OneLogin. FACTS is a popular student information system in
Product Updates Announcing support for LMS resources and modules A lot of our work these past few months has centered around building deeper integrations with student information systems (SIS). We've expanded our data pipeline to include attendance, school calendars,
Product Updates Beefing up our support for Skyward SMS and Qmlativ This week in developer land, we're excited to announce that we've rewritten our Skyward SMS integration to provide support for our extensive new data models. In addition to releasing this
Developers Avoiding pitfalls part 1: Don't try to filter the events stream Sometimes developers like to do things that they know will be hard. Maybe they're bored at work and just enjoy the extra challenge. Maybe they're after some higher pursuit of
Product Updates Near-Realtime Attendance, Updated Docs, and SSO Error Flows Things are coming together quickly for back to school and we're excited to roll out our hard work over the next few weeks. As for today, we have a few
Developers Integration Analytics, Aeries Sync Upgrade, and Dashboard Improvements It's shipping season here at Edlink, and this week is no exception. We have some cool stuff on the docket this week, so without further ado: Analytics DashboardThe biggest (and
Developers Giving the Dashboard a Facelift Along with our data model expansion, we're releasing a number of changes to the Edlink Dashboard. They're primarily cosmetic updates with a few user experience changes. While they may not
Product Updates Expanding our Data Model Our mission at Edlink has always been to improve the quality of education through the use of technology. We envision a world in which the story of a student's educational
Product Updates Sign into Edlink with Google SSO We are excited to announce a handful of new changes to the Edlink dashboard. The highlight of this update is the addition of Single Sign-On (SSO) with Google, which makes
Product Updates Transform data with AI Sometimes schools share messy data and getting into the right format can be challenging. Historically, this has always been the task of engineers working on data pipelines. These transformations typically
Product Updates Manage access to your platform with Product Licensing A common problem amongst edtech companies and publishers is how to manage access to their products. This problem is doubly hard when companies have multiple products or titles to manage.
Product Updates Frontend Javascript Widgets Building great user interfaces can be just as hard as building the technical infrastructure behind them. We've learned that despite our data model and API endpoints looking pretty simple on
Product Updates New Data Storage Regions: Germany 🇩🇪 and Australia 🇦🇺 Today I'm excited to announce our new data storage regions located in Frankfurt, Germany, and Sydney, Australia. These regions are available immediately and can be selected by administrators during the school admin onboarding flow.
Product Updates Data Enrichment gets a major upgrade One of the toughest parts of building an integration platform is consistency. After all, what is the point of a unified API if you can't offer some level of consistency to developers?
