OneRoster® is an open standard developed by IMS Global Learning Consortium® for sharing class rosters and related data between a student information system and other applications used across the industry. SchooLinks can connect with a OneRoster Server via API connection to pull the information to roster students and/or staff with little setup involved.

Approaches for OneRoster API Setup:

ClassLink Setup

OneRoster Server API Setup

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At this time SchooLinks does not support OneRoster CSV format for rostering. The only OneRoster rostering method is through an API connection to OneRoster endpoints. However, if you wish to roster by CSV instead of an API, you can use our CSV Rostering Guide to find the CSV data schemas for Rostering files.

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Data Sets Synced with OneRoster API

• Schools
• Student Accounts
• Staff Accounts
• Guardian Accounts
• Staff Rosters (OneRoster Classes Entity)
  • Teacher Sections
  • Counselor Caseloads (if included in OneRoster Classes)
• Student Tags
  • ClassLink API only
  • Any Metadata field that is passed can be configured to pull the value for student tags
    • Example: metadata.student_cohort ClassLink field can create student tags for the values like: 2025, 2026, 2027,…