Ellucian Colleague
Product Information
| Category | Student Information System (SIS) |
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| Website | http://www.ellucian.com/Software/Colleague-by-Ellucian/ |
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| Documentation | Ellucian Hub (requires client login) |
| API Documentation | Colleague Web API Rest API Documentation |
About Ellucian Colleague
Colleague by Ellucian maps across higher education’s unique business areas—including admissions, student services, financial aid, payroll, accounts payable, human resources, and fundraising—giving you the full functionality to handle all your administrative needs. More than 650 institutions count on Colleague to keep students, faculty, and staff connected. We believe that a strong and healthy technology environment is one that adapts to new innovations and keeps pace with the ever-changing higher education marketplace.
With this in mind, we are continually enhancing Colleague to help every student succeed, make every resource count, meet new expectations for service, and offer more opportunity for collaboration. These focused areas are designed to simplify processes so you can offer your students, faculty, and staff the support they need to succeed.
Integration Overview
The campusM integration with Colleague has different services available. Click on each of the services below to find out more information:
- Grades: displays students’ grade details for an institution and by semester. This data includes, subject, course name and course grade.
- My Advisor: displays contact information for a students’ assigned advisor(s) or key contact(s)
- Personal Details: displays students’ personal details including full name, mailing address, email address and phone number
Click on each of the above services for detailed information.
Integration Method
- API
Prerequisites
There are several prerequisites to the campusM integration with Ellucian Colleague:
| Prerequisite | Additional Information |
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Provide Colleague API URL/hostname for:
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| Ensure the Colleague web services are enabled | |
| Ensure that the Colleague web services are available for calls from the Connect Layer server(s) | The integration of campusM with Colleague requires the Connect Layer to call the Colleague APIs. This step ensures that Colleague APIs are set up to allow calls from the Connect Layer server(s) and the Connect Layer hostname was added to the accepted list of hostnames in Colleague |
| Provide API credentials /Security token (username and password) | |
Provide a minimum of three (3) Test accounts containing comprehensive and typical data, including the following:
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The test accounts should allow testing the integration according to the Suggested Testing Guidelines. i.e. should support authentication / log into the app as the test account been provided and run complete end-to-end testing of the integration functionality. |
Provide Colleague ID mapping and lookup method:
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| Provide Term field format and definition |