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Building great edtech is hard enough. Integrating it with school systems shouldn’t be. That’s why we’ve built a solution that helps edtech companies of all sizes connect and integrate with any student information system (SIS), learning management systems (LMS), and single sign-on (SSO) provider, so that you can focus on what matters most: building, scaling, and delivering great outcomes for your customers.
With RosterStream, our goal is to help you say “yes” to any type of integration a district asks for. We provide a modern infrastructure layer that makes it easier for schools to adopt your product while ensuring student and teacher data stays secure, all while saving your team precious time and resources.
In this article, we’ll explore how RosterStream simplifies the entire integration process – from your engineering team to the end users in the classroom.
For edtech companies, building a great product is only half the battle. Deploying it into schools quickly, securely, and in a way that works with each district’s unique systems is where things often break down.
The challenge? Every school district has its own patchwork of systems, standards, reporting requirements, rules and expectations when it comes to how their data is captured and shared. Integrations need to be both standardized, yet flexible. And the more manual work involved, the more time it takes to onboard a new customer, and the more things can go wrong.
Here’s why data integration in K–12 is so complex:
Your teachers, students, and other users don’t see or know this complexity. Nor should they need to. For them, the product experience must be seamless and intuitive. This means all the data pipes must be connected and ready to go from day one.
RosterStream gives edtech companies the infrastructure they need to integrate with districts – without getting bogged down in custom builds, complex data transformation, or expensive internal infrastructure projects.
With built-in connection adapters, flexible data publishing models, observability, automation, and AI-powered data mapping, RosterStream simplifies the entire integration process so your team can focus on delivering value, not maintaining data pipelines and integration tools.
Here’s how RosterStream helps your product scale, launch faster, and serve more districts with less friction:
RosterStream provides a plug-and-play infrastructure for managing rostering. It’s fully private-labeled, so your customers see your brand, not ours.
With direct SIS integration, there’s no need to rely on expensive third-party data exchange services. You gain full control over how you access student data for any district, regardless of the systems they use.
Core Rostering includes:
Together, these features mean less manual work, faster onboarding, fewer support tickets, and a much simpler path to scalable, affordable data integration.
Single sign-on (SSO) is often the first question school districts ask, and with good reason. Districts need to know that their existing login/dashboard systems will still work seamlessly with the tools they’re adopting.
With RosterStream’s SSO Connect, the answer is simple: yes.
Our out-of-the-box solution supports all major SSO providers, so schools can continue using what they already trust. There’s no disruption for educators, IT teams, or students.
SSO Connect supports:
SSO Connect makes implementation easier for districts and keeps your onboarding process running smoothly.
Need more than just basic roster data? RosterStream’s Extended Data Domains give you access to a richer set of information, so your product can support deeper insights and functionality. For example, if your application(s) need attendance data to report on chronic absenteeism, Extended Data makes these use cases possible. Extended data is normalized to the Ed-Fi Standard for your applications, giving you consistency in this data.
Extended Data Domain Support includes:
This allows your platform to deliver more value to schools, while giving administrators and educators the data they need, when they need it.
Different schools and districts use different learning management systems. This means for edtech brands, it’s vital to be able to easily integrate with the most popular platforms.
With the RosterStream LMS Link service, you’ll get a single infrastructure that easily connects to most LMS platforms, enabling assignment and assessment creation, grade passback, and deep linking for your content on Canvas, Schoology, Google Classroom and other major LMS platforms. All with a single LTI-based integration, so that your schools and districts can automate assignments, handle grading, and sync resources at every level.
One of the biggest reasons that edtech brands love RosterStream is the single, unified rostering dashboard, where you can easily see all of your district connections in one place, allowing for real-time monitoring and control.
If something goes wrong, RosterStream’s built-in change detection and “circuit break” system helps you detect and stop issues before they impact your applications. No more relying on a team of engineers to spelunk through data troubleshoot problems.
With tools to test, monitor, and even simulate connections before going live, RosterStream simplifies workflows for edtech teams and ensures a seamless experience for districts.
Ease of use matters to school districts, but so does security. That’s why RosterStream is built with data protection at its core.
We maintain strict compliance with industry and edtech data privacy standards, including:
We’ll also perform annual penetration testing on the infrastructure to make sure your student data is protected.
Our security infrastructure provides real-time security posture and multi-region data hosting.
Just getting to the bottom? Here’s a few key reasons why edtech teams choose RosterStream to simplify rostering and data integration:
RosterStream is purpose-built for edtech vendors who want to own their integration roadmap. It helps you connect faster, onboard schools more easily, and eliminate reliance on expensive, restrictive platforms. That means faster adoption, happier customers, and more time for your team to focus on building great products that help schools thrive.
Want more details? Check out our one-pager on What Sets Ednition Apart for a deeper dive on why edtech companies choose Ednition.
RosterStream makes K–12 data integration fast, reliable, and scalable – no matter the size or stage of your edtech company.
Here’s how to get started:
We’re here to help you simplify K–12 integration, so you can focus on building better tools for educators and students.
At the end of the day, our goal is simple: make it easier to improve education.
Let’s take the complexity out of K–12 integration – together.
