Lightspeed + Aeries Integration
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Data here.
Data there.
Data, data everywhere.
Too much information, or information spread across too many access points can be as ineffective as no information. That's precisely why Lightspeed Systems has integrated so many network traffic and user activity reports into its centralized interface.
Good, but still there are so many other vendor interfaces for other types of student information.
So we asked ourselves the question, what if? What if our critical user information was integrated with a school's central access point for student information—the SIS? Picture an additional tab in your student information system that included the student's online activities and suspicious search-engine queries (e.g., bomb making, gang terms, suicide).
Logan Lemming, network administrator for El Dorado County Office of Education (EDCOE) in California, could picture it perfectly. "We like information," says Lemming, "but we have information in a lot of places, and it may not be useful where it resides. Our administrators interact with the SIS, not tech."
To integrate its online user activity with a SIS, Lightspeed Systems has been working with Eagle Software, which counts more than 350 California school districts as its Aeries SIS customers.
About seventy-five percent of EDCOE's sixteen districts have been using Aeries for years. That number increased to ninety percent as the county office helped districts configure Lightspeed's Total Traffic Control content filtering during the summer months. EDCOE operates as an ISP and provides filtering for all the districts in the county.
With both products deployed, Lemming has enjoyed "mashing up our services."