Alma
Overview
- Overview
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Alma is a cloud SIS and learning-management environment for K–12 schools. It combines student records, enrollment, scheduling, attendance, gradebook, standards-based grading, transcripts, communication, portals, reporting, and instructional workflows in one platform.
Alma’s student record supports both administration and classroom work. Enrollment, section membership, and grading decisions therefore need coordination between school offices, teachers, and the staff managing district reporting. A stable student identifier provides continuity across years and schools. Enrollment and course dates determine which records belong to a particular roster, service, or reporting period.
For district data leaders, the system’s significance is the reach of its shared records. Changes to enrollment, identity, or program history can affect access, services, and reporting. Schools, program owners, and technology staff coordinate who approves changes, when they take effect, and how corrections reach receiving systems and reporting processes.
Features
- Features
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Student information management
- Manages enrollment, contacts, schedules, attendance, grades, transcripts, behavior, fees, and configurable student information.
- Includes staff, student, and family access.
Teaching and learning
- Provides gradebooks, assignments, standards, rubrics, curriculum, report cards, and communication tools.
- Can reduce reliance on a separate LMS for some schools.
Operations and connections
- Supports reporting, workflows, APIs, rostering, SSO, and partner integrations according to plan.
- California reporting readiness should be confirmed for each implementation.
Student Data Privacy
- Student Data Privacy
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Alma Privacy Policy:
https://www.getalma.com/privacy/
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Company News
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Interoperability
Sign-on, rostering, and file exchange methods
Learning Management System Connectivity
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Note: SDLA does not endorse or resell any products listed on the site. They are listed simply to aid in the development of integration resources for school district ed-data leaders.

