Provision users and courses via the Ellucian Ethos Integration API and subscribe to change notifications from Banner or Colleague
domain: ellucian.com · 6 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Authenticate to the Ethos API token endpoint using your application's API key to receive a short-lived JWT
GET /api/persons with Accept: application/vnd.hedtech.integration.v12+json to retrieve person records in the Ethos data model
GET /api/sections to retrieve course section data including instructors, meeting patterns, and enrollment counts
Register a change notification subscription via POST /api/change-notifications/subscriptions specifying the resource types and your webhook callback URL
Receive webhook POST payloads containing changed resource ids; fetch the full resource detail using the id from the notification
Refresh the auth token before its exp; Ethos tokens are typically valid for 5 minutes
Known gotchas
Ethos uses versioned media types in the Accept header; a missing or incorrect version returns a 406 and no data
Change notification webhooks deliver resource ids, not full payloads; your subscriber must make a follow-up GET to read current state, which may have changed again by the time you fetch it
Ethos acts as a data proxy; the underlying SIS (Banner or Colleague) must have the Ethos integration module configured before data is available through the API
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