Understanding Edu-API

Edu-API provides modern integration capabilities (like REST/JSON) following the 1EdTech Edu-API interoperability standard. These capabilities enable institutions to integrate, and exchange data, with applications in the ecosystem around PeopleSoft Campus Solutions, following an emerging industry standard for data exchange.

This initial release prioritizes common use cases for integrating with downstream applications, such as learning management, parking management, and housing management systems.

Delivered capabilities enable the ability to:

  • Provision Persons

  • Provision Class Information

  • Provision Program Information

  • Provision Academic Periods & Sessions (e.g., terms and semesters)

  • Provision Organizations

  • Provision Class Enrollments

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 Edu-API Integrations

Edu-API has the potential to simplify and streamline your institutions’ ecosystems, reducing maintenance burden and optimizing student experiences. It also provides expedited onboarding for third-party vendor applications that also adopt and certify to Edu-API, promoting innovation with clean, relevant, secured, and standard data across ecosystem applications.

For more information on the Edu-API standard, see https://www.1edtech.org/standards/edu-api.

Edu-API endpoints can be used by enterprise applications, or any other third-party software, that can integrate through modern mechanisms and protocols.

Edu-API can be used by:

  • Oracle middleware and applications

  • Third party middleware and applications

Edu-API provides the SCC_EDUAPI_SERVER_R service that enables access to the PeopleSoft Campus Solutions Edu-API functionality. The SCC_EDUAPI_SERVER_R service provides the following service operations:

Service Operation

Methods Supported

SCC_EDUAPI_SERVER_R_GET.v1

GET

With these service operations, Edu-API offers functionality in the following areas:

  • Provision Persons

  • Provision Class Information

  • Provision Program Information

  • Provision Academic Periods & Sessions (e.g., terms and semesters)

  • Provision Organizations

  • Provision Class Enrollments

Review this documentation as part of your Edu-API implementation: