This integration imports student and parent demographics data from Skyward into SameGoal on a nightly basis. Demographics information appears on each student's "Details" tab in SameGoal, and auto-copies into documents as they are created for each student.
Steps
To setup demographics integration with Skyward Qmlativ:Create an Integration Access Record:
- Navigate to Administrative Access > API > Integration.
- Select the Integration with Product Name SameGoal Demographics.
- Select the Integration Accesses tab, and then click Add Integration Access.
- Set a Name, Key, and Authentication Type for the Integration Access.
- Name can be whatever you choose.
- Access defaults to expire a year after creation date; you may extend or even delete this expiration.
- For Custom API Entities, select your District Entity and any entity you wish to include in integration.
- Authentication type should be OAuth 2.0.
- After the Integration Access is created, SameGoal will be able to generate a secret to pair with this key.
- Email tier2help@samegoal.com from your district email with subject “Complete SameGoal Demographics Integration” (no additional information needed).
- Our technical team will verify that the Integration Access record has been created for your district.
- Our technical team will generate the required secret for this Integration Access record. Full API credential information for this integration will then appear in SameGoal. To view/verify this information:
- Login to SameGoal as an administrative user.
- Visit Settings (left menu) > District Information.
- Under STUDENT INFORMATION SYSTEM INTEGRATION, locate Skyward Qmlativ.
- The "add Nightly Demographics" section will be expanded and contain:
- API Base URL, Client Key and Client Secret
- You will receive a confirmation reply email once SameGoal setup is complete.
- This integration runs nightly. Students should appear from Skyward the following morning in this environment.