Custom/Homegrown SIS Integration Toolkit

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Modified on: Tue, May 13, 2025 at 9:35 AM

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Overview

Coursedog provides canned integrations with most major Student Information Systems (SIS). However, Coursedog also supports various integration methods with custom or homegrown systems.
Coursedog provides the tools for your IT team to identify, extract, and transfer curricular data from your SIS.
Your technical team will be able to transfer the data through one of three integration methods: CSV Migration (one-time data import mechanism), APIs, and…
Coursedog recommends a discovery and recommendation session with your technical teams and a Coursedog Solutions Engineer before engaging in a particular strategy. See our integration methodology for more information on the process.

Coursedog supports an IT-free approach through a CSV import mechanism.
It is a great option for institutions with limited IT bandwidth or those running non-supported systems.
Coursedog provides import templates and QA to help with the initial data load process. Coursedog will provide training to your staff to help support and maintain data integrity between the two systems.
Learn more about Creating a CSV Upload.

Coursedog provides Rest APIs that allow your institution to build custom integrations to sync your data.
This is a great option for institutions that have the infrastructure and IT staff that are familiar with this type of integration.
Each product has its own API:

Coursedog provides a structured schema that will allow your IT staff to map data into the application.
A dedicated Data Engineer will work with your institution to identify the data to help with the extraction.
See our schemas below: