Connectors Guide for Special Education Vendors (SEIS, SIRAS)

In this lesson, you will review how to setup and connect your SEIS or SIRAS information to Illuminate on a nightly basis.

The first step to the process is having the district reach out to send a help ticket to Illuminate Support at help@illuminateed.com
In response, you will be given a “Third Party Integrations: Permission Application” to complete.

Want to be most successful? Make sure to include or copy your Customer Success Manager on the email request.

Once the application has been signed and returned to support, the vendor point person can send a help ticket to Illuminate Support at help@illuminateed.com.
- In this ticket, the vendor can request credentials for the Illuminate API and SFTP server.
- If the vendor already has credentials, then the request will ask for access to be added for the new district.

A member of your District/LEA needs to be copied on all emails and help tickets pertaining to the progress of the integration.

Illuminate Support Specialists will supply the credentials to both the API and SFTP server. It should also have the URLs and directions for the use of each.
To stay safe and secure, Illuminate will send credentials and passwords in separate emails.

The vendor is now approved to retrieve the organization's demographic information data from the Illuminate API.

To get special education data back into Illuminate, the vendor will create a specialed.txt file for requesting district and upload it to the corresponding subdirectory on the SFTP server nightly.
The vendor will send this file back to Illuminate Support Specialists. The following information should be provided in the response of the support ticket:
- Example: vendorname/districtname
- File Spec: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bhleSCuam2RNGwLj9RoWCLAPivvuk8Tore6lvi47XK4/pubhtml#

Next Steps

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