K-12 school leaders are challenged by the exponential growth in the number of edtech vendors they are leveraging to support educators and drive curriculum goals. What was once a manageable 20-25 vendors that a school IT leader had to integrate data with, there are now, on average, more than 1,400. GG4L provides K-12 schools support in simplifying complex data integrations.
The Growing Complexity of Data Management in K-12
Schools face ongoing challenges with multiple systems requiring integration. Every student information system, learning management systems, and third-party apps may have their own specific data integration requirement. Some of the integrations can be incredibly complex and require custom APIs. Yet poor integration risks inefficiencies, data breaches, and compliance failures.
The Integration Challenge: Why It’s More Complex Than Ever
The convergence of diverse ecosystems, apps, and platforms combined with a heightened focus on student data privacy – and laws governing how student data must be protected – has further complicated data integration management for K-12 schools and school IT leaders. Yet the threat of cybersecurity attacks against schools has never been so high. Manual or fragmented data integration processes put schools at extreme risk.
GG4L’s School Passport Is a Game-Changer for Secure and Seamless Integration
School Passport is a next-generation data exchange platform. It exchanges any data with any edtech application, eliminates the need to share school PII, and offers easy to implement API services. School Passport has successfully
integrated with over 30,000 K12 schools, 500 higher ed institutions, and hundreds of edtech partners. School Passport’s benefits include:
- Exchanges any data with any edtech product. We go beyond basic rostering to handle complex data exchanges to resolve any data challenge.
- Easy to implement for schools and vendors. School Passport’s versatile platform eases implementation and automates the management of any data exchange.
- Eliminates the need to share school PII. School Passport is not only equipped with monitoring dashboards to identify PII risks, but also has actionable tools to eliminate them with the Privacy Data Console.
Our Privacy Governance Console (PGC) is a tool to track, audit, and manage data privacy across a school district’s edtech apps.
Key Features:
- Discover unapproved apps: Real-time visibility into which apps are being accessed across a school and their privacy risks.
- PII access visibility: A dashboard accessible directly through School Passport that allows you to see which vendors have access to your data.
- Make informed decisions: The ability to see data leakage and manage risk more effectively.
Learn more about School Passport and the Privacy Governance Console.
Additional Resources
Privacy Governance Console Video Walkthrough: GG4L’s Privacy Governance Console
Webinar: Student Data Privacy in K-12: Who Can You Trust?
White Paper on Student Data Privacy: Safeguarding Student Data Privacy
