AI-First Rostering and Data Interoperability
Roster Intelligence is the intelligence layer that powers Ednition's entire RosterStream platform. From automatic data mapping and data augmentation, to smart change detection and streamlined district onboarding, Roster Intelligence is built to tackle the toughest data & integration challenges for edtech vendors.
There are over 200+ Student Information Systems, and each one stores, labels, and exports data differently.
Many SIS's still provide roster data through CSV exports, a method that's manual, error prone, and offers little to no automation. Even with efforts to standardize around schemas like OneRoster, turning whatever format a district provides into clean, usable data still often requires mapping, data validations, integrity checks, and specialized expertise.
And a clean API feed doesn't finish the job either. Standards like OneRoster cover the basics: students, teachers, classes, enrollments. They don't cover much of what products actually need, like ELL status, IEP status, guardian contact and address information, or district-specific fields. That data lives elsewhere in the SIS, and getting it means enriching the standard feed with custom pulls, validations, and business rules. We call this data augmentation, and for most vendors it's a second integration project layered on top of the first.
RosterStream has always handled that complexity so vendors don't have to. Roster Intelligence takes it further, automating the hardest parts of rostering and data integration: mapping, validation, and augmentation, so the data arriving in your product is valid, complete, and ready to use.
Automatic Schema Mapping
Roster Intelligence converts non-standard district exports into both OneRoster and Ed-Fi compliant formats without manual field mapping, including cases where identifier fields are labeled inconsistently across systems.
Change Detection and Reporting
The platform identifies and itemizes roster changes and then summarizes what changed and why so edtech vendors can quickly tell whether the data is accurate or the district made an error.
Builtin-in CSV over SFTP Guidance
When a district uploads files via SFTP but mappings haven't been set up yet, Roster Intelligence flags it immediately and takes you straight to the mapping experience, where natural language turns a job that used to take minutes into one that takes seconds.
Roster Intelligence in the Connection Request Wizard
Roster Intelligence is now built into the district-facing Rostering and SSO Connection Wizard, guiding district IT contacts through connecting their SIS and configuring SSO directly. It's the first time Roster Intelligence has been in front of the end district user, not just the vendor, cutting down on support requests coming from the connection process.
Automated District Onboarding
Through an MCP integration, EdTech vendors can agentically start the connection process with district customers. When a new district contract is signed by the vendor, the platform agents can initiate the RosterStream connection, configure initial settings, and send district onboarding emails without manual intervention.
Augmentation-Aware Mapping and Validation
Roster Intelligence understands when a data source uses data augmentation and applies the correct merge rules automatically. You simply describe what you want to augment in plain language, and Roster Intelligence takes it from there.
Agentic Batch Review
Roster Intelligence reviews, diagnoses, and fixes sync batches on its own, pulling records, reading sync logs, detecting issues, and taking corrective action such as joining duplicate records, splitting mismatched ones, and running bulk reconciliation, all within a single conversation. What used to potentially take a team hours of manual review now takes minutes, with student PII always secure and never used in any AI process.
Bulk Mapping Generation
Roster Intelligence generates mappings for every file in a data source at once instead of one file at a time. Describe what you need in natural language, and Roster Intelligence applies it across every relevant CSV file in a single step, cutting a multi-file mapping job down to one request.
Filter-Aware Validation
When a custom validation rule intentionally filters out records, Roster Intelligence recognizes that as expected behavior rather than flagging it as a failure, so you stop wasting time chasing down filters that were never broken.
Connection Migration Detection
When a district switches SIS vendors or connection types, the new system assigns brand-new IDs to every record. Roster Intelligence recognizes the migration during batch review, finds records that represent data you've already synced, and joins them with your existing data in bulk, turning what was once a manual reconciliation project into a guided review.