Student systems

The digital study environment features a number of systems. Canvas, our study platform, acts as a hub for students and teachers. Ladok on the other hand, the primary system for student administration, is the source for student, programme and course information. Idis, our system for identity management, provides the information needed for authentication. Using various integrations between the systems we manage that users have the correct access to the respective systems, that students and teachers reach the correct course rooms in Canvas, that correct information is shown on the course and programme pages on slu.se, that correct templates are applied to newly created course rooms, etc etc. TimeEdit and Inspera are other examples of systems we integrate to the study environment.

The methods used for system integrations vary and are largely dictated by the technologies the respective systems support. For example, Atom feeds are used to read data from Ladok while Canvas exposes a REST-API for both reading and writing. Other systems may require direct access to a database. To match the situation of such different conditions we use a variety of tools and methods including the integration engine BizTalk, in house developed .NET applications and simpler scheduled tasks.

Realising a reliable harmony between these systems and integrations is not a trivial task. It requires that we establish and maintain a high level insight and knowledge of both the technical domain as well as the educational domain and its business model. To this end we cooperate closely with the administrative side and various other groups within the IT department.

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