Securely Provide Access to Your Student Information System - Infinite Campus

Schoolzilla connects to your Infinite Campus student information system using VPN* and ODBC**.

If Infinite Campus is hosting your SIS, in order to obtain ODBC credentials, the following steps are required:

1. A district's student information system administrator should reach out to Infinite Campus support to request a new read-only database account for the username "schoolzilla". Include the following information:

   Vendor Name: Renaissance Learning, Inc

   Contact Name: Scott Johnson

   Email: contracts@renaissance.com

2. All parties sign the data sharing agreement.
3. After setting up an account for Schoolzilla, Infinite Campus will securely provide you the new account information and credentials.
4. Administrator on Schoolzilla provides the account information and credentials securely to Schoolzilla via the My Data form.

Host: Select “Vendor Hosted” Username: A username set up with read-only access to your IC database (schoolzilla) Password: Credentials for the user with read-only access to your IC database provided by IC. Server: The server where IC database is hosted (e.g. district.infinitecampus.org) *Note: Please enter the server address in the format seen above. Do not include characters such as https:// at the beginning of the server URL or / (forward slashes) at the end of the server URL. Port: 7771 Database Name: Database name of your product IC database (e.g. districtname)

If you or another vendor is hosting Infinite Campus, the following steps are required:

1. A new read-only database account for the username "schoolzilla" is created on the Infinite Campus database.
2. A new VPN account is created for Schoolzilla. If you do not see your VPN listed on My Data, let us know which of the following types of VPN we can use to access your system: Cisco, F5, IPSec, L2TP, Pulse, SonicWall, and Windows (SSTP).
3. An administrator on Schoolzilla provides the account information and credentials securely for both Infinite Campus and the selected VPN on My Data.

Host: Select “Self Hosted” Username: A username set up with read-only access to your IC database Password: Credentials for the user with read-only access to your IC database Server: The server where IC database is hosted (e.g. district.infinitecampus.org) *Note: Please enter the server address in the format seen above. Do not include characters such as https:// at the beginning of the server URL or / (forward slashes) at the end of the server URL. Port: The port that can be used to access your Infinite Campus database (e.g. 7771) Database Name: Database name of your product IC database (e.g. districtname)

*Virtual Private Network (VPN): VPN gives Schoolzilla a highly secure way of connecting to the server that hosts your SIS. Think of this as the “pipe” that connects Schoolzilla to your data.

**Open Database Connectivity (ODBC): ODBC lets Schoolzilla pull important data out of your SIS and transport it through the secure VPN “pipe.” Think of this as the “valve” that lets Schoolzilla pump data out of your SIS and into your dashboards.