In this lesson, you will review how to setup and connect your SEIS or SIRAS information to Illuminate on a nightly basis.
1. Permission Application & Approval Form
- The first step to the process is having the District System Admin reach out to send a help ticket to Illuminate Support at help@illuminateed.com
Illuminate Support can send credentials to District System Admins, but not vendors. If a vendor is in need of access, the request must come from the District System Admin.
2. Confirmation of SFTP Credentials
- Illuminate Support Specialists will supply the credentials to the API in a confirmation email. It should also contain the URL and directions.
- To stay safe and secure, Illuminate will mark the ticket as secure in our help center and will require logging into Zendesk. See Create and Access an Illuminate Help Center Account.
3. Vendor Access to Illuminate API
- The vendor is now approved to retrieve the organization's demographic information data from the Illuminate API.
4. SEIS or SIRAS Import
- To get special education data back into Illuminate, the vendor will create a specialed.txt file for the requesting district.
- It will then be the district's responsibility to upload that file to the corresponding subdirectory on the SFTP server on a nightly basis.
While this does not have to be on nightly upload, this is the only way to ensure any changes with your Special Education Vendor will appear within Illuminate the next day
5. Illuminate Import
- After the specialed.txt file has been setup on the SFTP server, the district will need to add this file to their Core Data Automation or create a new one.
- Begin that process by visiting Adding a New Dataset to your Nightly Automation
Next Steps
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