Integration
Integration with your SIS
A timetabling system that does not talk to your SIS — your student record system in Britain, your student management system in Australia — becomes a second source of truth, and second sources of truth diverge. Wise Timetable ships with a documented REST API rather than an integration project.
- Documented REST API
- Inbound and outbound
- Shibboleth SSO
A documented API, in both directions
Inbound so your institutional systems can feed the timetable; outbound so they can read from it.
The REST API allows your student information system, HR system or institutional database to push programme structures, module enrolments, staff records and room inventories into Wise Timetable on a schedule — so the timetable reflects reality without anyone running an export.
In the other direction, your portal, virtual learning environment or in-house mobile app can read timetable data directly for real-time display and automated reporting. That is genuine interoperability rather than a nightly file drop that is stale by lunchtime.
The documentation is a deliverable, not a favour. Your developers should be able to work against the API without a support ticket for every endpoint.
Every integration route
- REST API libraries for inbound and outbound connections
- Scheduled synchronisation with student information and HR systems
- File-based exchange in Excel, CSV and XML where an API is not available
- Direct database integration where institutional policy allows it
- Calendar integration so staff and students can subscribe from Outlook or Google Calendar
- Links to online meeting platforms such as Teams, Zoom and Google Meet attached to individual sessions
- Attendance taken by QR code back into the student information system, list by list, corrections included
Single sign-on
Staff can sign in with the Microsoft 365 account the institution already gives them — single sign-on through Microsoft Entra ID, on the web timetable where lecturers book rooms and in the browser administration. Your Microsoft 365 administrator approves Wise Timetable once; it asks for sign-in and basic profile only, and multi-factor authentication and Conditional Access apply as they do for Outlook. Setting up Microsoft sign-in is the page for IT, and signing in with Microsoft the one for staff.
Wise Timetable is also compatible with Shibboleth and comparable federated identity systems, which are widely adopted across higher education. Where your institution uses single sign-on, staff and students reach the booking system and their personal timetables with no separate credentials to issue, reset or revoke.
That removes an entire class of administrative overhead, and it removes the security objection that usually accompanies opening a system to several thousand users.
When we have not met your system before
Integration with an unfamiliar external system is the single most common reason an implementation timeline extends. We would rather say that plainly than discover it together in month three.
The integration interface is deliberately flexible and covers most common setups. Tell us which systems you run when you first contact us, and we will tell you honestly whether we have connected to them before and what the effort looks like if we have not.
If you already run one of these
There is a page for each of the systems institutions most often ask us about, written in that system's own record names.
SITS, Banner, Workday Student, PeopleSoft, Ellucian Colleague, Callista and UNIT-e. Each one sets out which of its objects holds what a timetable needs, which direction each thing travels, and — because it is the question that actually decides an evaluation — what we do not have for it.
If yours is not on that list, the section above is the honest answer: tell us what you run and we will tell you whether we have met it before.
Related capabilities
- The REST API itselfEndpoints, authentication, caching and the published manual.
- Importing dataFile-based routes when an API is not available.
- Cloud hostingWhere the system runs and how it is secured.
- Integrating your timetable with your SISWhat the work actually involves.
- Wise Ed, our own student information systemBuilt on the timetable’s data, so there is nothing to integrate.
- Timetabling alongside SITSWhich SITS record holds what a timetable needs.
See Wise Timetable on your own data
Book a 45-minute online presentation. We will walk through your institution's scheduling problem, show how Wise Timetable handles it, and answer anything your team wants to test.