Open and Interoperable
A core value of Illuminate Education is to be open and interoperable. We embrace secure industry recognized standards made available through organizations like 1EdTech and the Ed-Fi Alliance. This allows us to more easily connect with key district technologies, such as Student Information Systems (SIS), Learning Management Systems (LMS), and various learning solutions. We also utilize other available technologies such as APIs, SSO, and various data exchange services.
How We Connect With Others
SINGLE SIGN ON (SSO)
We make navigation seamless between Illuminate products and other platforms through Single Sign On available through
identity providers such as Google, Clever, ClassLink and RapidIdentity, or through other EdTech vendors who use industry authentication standards like SAML, LDAP and OAuth2.
IMPORT INTO ILLUMINATE
Assessment Import
Illuminate utilizes services from major national assessment providers to automate the importing of student assessment data, freeing up district staff from having to manually load the data themselves. These include NWEA, SAT, i-Ready, FAST, certain state assessments, and many others.
SIS Data Import
Student Information Systems are the authoritative source of all student data in a school district. Illuminate prides itself on being able to ingest data from dozens of these essential systems into our solutions. We have thousands of successful data integrations that inform and guide our work on your implementation.
Learning Standards Import
We use Academic Benchmarks for standard interoperability and are exploring CASE standard interoperability in partnership with 1EdTech.
Content Imports
We seek to partner with leading Publishers and State DOEs with the goal of developing a robust library of content within our platforms for our district customers to access as long as they have current license access. This includes our own in-house Illuminate Content Inspect offerings. To support this, we utilize 1EdTech Question & Test Interoperability (QTI) as well as PIE Open Source software framework.
EXPORT FROM ILLUMINATE
Automated Data Export
Scheduled data extracts are available through the secure transfer file protocol (SFTP) as authorized by the district
administration.
Illuminate Product APIs / Exports
DnA
DnA assessment results are provided in the publicly available API to which clients and their other EdTech vendors can easily
retrieve the student assessment results from DnA.
FastBridge
FastBridge assessment results can be provided nightly through the secure transfer file protocol (SFTP) as authorized by the
district administration.
SchoolCity
Customized scheduled data extracts are available through the secure transfer file protocol (SFTP) as authorized by the district
administration.
eSchoolData
eSchoolData provides a fully functional API (Application Programming Interface) with its GURU application. The eSD GURU API
provides a standard way for authorized third party applications to securely obtain data from, and, in select cases, write data
back to, the eSD® Student Management System on behalf of a user or vendor. Utilizing modern RESTful approaches, Open ID
Connect, and OAuth 2.0, eSD® partners can access a variety of data based on the access rights defined by each district,
including school, staff, student, course, class roster, grade reporting, and attendance information.
Open Industry Standards
Ed-Fi Alliance
lluminate is proud to partner with the Dell Foundation to develop the ability for assessment data originating within DnA to be made available to providers utilizing the EdFi 2.5 and higher standards.
Illuminate is also utilizing EdFi standards to incorporate data from other EdFi certified systems, such as the Michigan Data Hubs.
Project Unicorn
We are signatory to the Project Unicorn project that is an effort to improve data interoperability within K-12 education.
