The Integration Pack

PeopleSoft Student Administration Integration Pack (SAIP) is a separately licensed product that provides a web-service based interface for passing academic data (person, course, and enrollment) from PeopleSoft Campus Solutions to consuming applications such as your learning management system (LMS). The web services process creates and maintains corresponding data and structures in the target external system. For example, as a course is created in PeopleSoft Campus Solutions, the web service passes the data to an LMS, which creates a corresponding course site or virtual learning space. Then, as students successfully enroll in the course in the PeopleSoft Campus Solutions system, their enrollment information is passed to the LMS so that they are listed as valid members of that course site with all appropriate privileges.

SAIP provides two types of integration: snapshot and event-driven.

The snapshot model enables you to move volumes of data between systems, for example, when initializing an integration between Campus Solutions and a learning management application, or creating course sites at the beginning of a term.

The event-driven model permits near real-time updates, for example, adding enrolled students immediately to course sites as they enroll in courses, or the creation of course sites as the courses are created. The event-driven model is supplemented by snapshots in cases in which an institution or term is pivotal and large quantities of data must be moved between PeopleSoft Campus Solutions and the external system.

SAIP also provides Grade Import. When enabled, Grade Import allows your faculty members to import final grades on a per-course basis from your LMS into the PeopleSoft Student Records online grade roster.

The SAIP interface is based on the IMS Learning Information Services standard specification. This specification provides standard information models and protocols representing person, courses, enrollments, and outcomes. Specifically, IMS Learning Information Services provides the following services:

• IMS Person service for person information.

• IMS Group service for non-course hierarchical or relational entities.

• IMS Course Management service for information pertaining to course definitions (including related course hierarchies and combined or associated sections).

• IMS Membership service for enrollment information.

• IMS Outcome service for communicating grades from the external system back to the Campus Solutions system.

The IMS Learning Information Services specification includes a data model for entities relevant to each of the services it provides. SAIP maps to PeopleSoft Student Administration data and transforms it into the schema defined by IMS.

The PeopleSoft to IMS data transformation includes:

• For the IMS person service and data model, SAIP transforms data (defined on the SAIP Installation page) from the PeopleSoft Student Administration biographical and demographic tables.

  Note: SAIP only integrates person data for persons in the context of membership in a course, either as a student or instructor.

• For the IMS group service and data model, SAIP transforms data from PeopleSoft Student Administration institution, academic organization, and term session tables.

• For the IMS course service and data model, SAIP maps to the PeopleSoft Student Administration Student Records course structure and transforms data for the IMS course hierarchy, including:

  • For the IMS course template, SAIP transforms PeopleSoft Student Administration course and course offering data.

  • For the IMS course offering, SAIP transforms PeopleSoft Student Administration class section data.

  • For the IMS course section, SAIP transforms PeopleSoft Student Administration class section data.

• Also, for the IMS course service, SAIP provides operations and a data model for the combining of multiple class sections into single course sections by transforming data from PeopleSoft Student Administration combined sections data and SAIP-defined class association tables and ad hoc section associations.

• For the IMS membership service and data model map, SAIP transforms data from PeopleSoft Student Administration enrollment and class instructor tables.

• For the IMS outcome service, SAIP maps inbound final grade and outcome information to the PeopleSoft Student Administration grade roster tables.