Elevate Data Sync from Instructure
Overview
- Overview
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Instructure Elevate Data Sync is an education interoperability platform that moves roster, student, staff, course, and learning information between student information systems and other applications. It replaces separate vendor-by-vendor integrations with centrally managed connections that understand common education standards and proprietary SIS formats.
The service sits between authoritative school records and applications that consume them. District and vendor teams coordinate field mappings, student matching, permissions, and the handling of enrollment changes. A successful transfer can still carry a mismatched identity or an inappropriate field value. Source ownership and agreed receiving rules give the technical exchange its business meaning.
The work continues after the first successful exchange. A source correction, new school year, vendor update, or failed transfer can change what receiving applications know. Application owners and technical teams coordinate monitoring, exception review, and approved changes so that synchronized data continues to represent the intended students, staff, classes, and services.
Features
- Features
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SIS and application synchronization
- Connects student information systems with learning and education applications through supported standards and vendor-specific methods.
- Synchronizes student, staff, organization, course, class, and enrollment information on a recurring schedule.
Central management
- Uses one administrative console for connection setup, field mapping, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
- Reduces the number of separate scripts and point-to-point integrations that district or vendor teams must maintain.
Two-way learning workflows
- Supports bidirectional exchanges where the source and destination permit them.
- Can return outcomes such as grades to the SIS instead of requiring duplicate teacher entry.
Standards support
- Supports education interoperability approaches including OneRoster, SIF, LIS, LTI-related workflows, APIs, and CSV.
- Actual methods and data available depend on the connected SIS and application.
Student Data Privacy
- Student Data Privacy
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Elevate Data Sync from Instructure Privacy Policy:
https://www.instructure.com/policies/california-privacy-policy
Signed California Student Data Privacy Agreement?
Yes
Company News
- Company News
Interoperability
Sign-on, rostering, and file exchange methods
Learning Management System Connectivity
Additional Data Standards used by this product
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