In a monumental shift, ClassLink’s annual conference, CLON, will be live and in-person for the first time in 2025. Set against the backdrop of the luxurious Renaissance Hotel in Dallas, Texas, CLON 2025 is slated to captivate attendees from March 4–6, 2025.
Read MoreRead MoreTech & Learning recently named ClassLink the winner of four Best for Back to School Awards for the complete ClassLink Suite and DataGuard, winning in the primary and secondary school categories for both products. With the 2023-24 school year underway, Tech & Learning's Awards of Excellence program, "The Best Tools for Back to School," is designed to help tech leaders find products and solutions to support their work in any learning environment.
ClassLink, the leading provider of identity and access management (IAM) products for education, unveils Scope Your Google Directory, a timely ClassLink Academy course designed to protect schools from directory scraping. In today's digital age, schools’ increasing reliance on technology to streamline operations brings new challenges and threats, including directory scraping.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is announcing a voluntary pledge for K-12 Education Technology software manufacturers to commit to designing products with greater security built in. As of September 1, CISA has received commitments from six K-12 software technology providers, including some of the largest providers of K-12 education software in the United States.
Last week, ClassLink celebrated the accomplishments of exceptional New Jersey educators at their annual Seaside Celebration for Ed Leaders in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Bringing together educators and thought leaders from across the state—the event gave guests a chance to connect, kick off a new school year, and celebrate their colleagues!
ClassLink, the leading provider of identity and access management products for education, proudly announced today it is participating in the White House’s Secure by Design cybersecurity pledge. ClassLink was among the first cohort of leading edtech organizations invited to make the pledge, which encourages solution providers to prioritize cybersecurity in their products and practices to reduce the cybersecurity burden facing K-12 schools.
Tech & Learning recently named ClassLink the winner of two Best of Show Awards at ISTE 2023. ClassLink won the awards for the complete ClassLink Suite and DataGuard, ClassLink’s newest product designed to empower schools to take control of the data they share with vendors.
Teachers and students are engaging with fewer edtech tools but the diversity of options is forcing CIOs and other educators to manage even more applications than last year, according to the latest EdTech Top 40 list from LearnPlatform by Instructure.
During the pandemic, schools became more reliant on tech than ever. The number of edtech products schools access in a typical month has tripled since four years ago to more than 1,400 tools, according to a recent estimate by Learn Platform, an edtech company that helps schools manage tech.
Many school districts routinely share class roster data with the ed tech platforms used within classrooms, and that frequently includes Personally Identifiable Information. DataGuard enables IT and technology implementation managers to limit the amount of sensitive data shared by dynamically replacing “key PII fields with meaningless letter scrambles before sending data to a vendor through roster server.
