Using Wonde for MIS integration: requests, authorisations and permissions

Smartgrade uses Wonde to sync crucial data between your school's MIS and the Smartgrade platform.

To set up the connection between your school, Wonde, and Smartgrade, we request permission to access your school's MIS data via Wonde. This triggers an email to your school from Wonde.

• If your school doesn't use Wonde already for any other MIS syncing, then this email typically goes to a member of the IT team that Wonde have on file, inviting the school to set up a portal with Wonde to authorise permission requests and view permissions.
• If your school does use Wonde already, anyone with access to the Wonde portal can go to the dashboard, find our request, and authorise it there.

Permissions: Required and Optional Scopes

When authorising the request, permissions are split into two categories: required and optional. Required scopes are for things that we need for Smartgrade to operate. Optional scopes are only needed if you require certain features. Please see the table below for more detail:

Category	Purpose	Required/Optional
Staff names	To provision accounts. To distinguish between teachers in school and MAT accounts. To assist with the provision of an education to students.	Required
Staff contact information	To provision accounts. To distinguish between teachers in school and MAT accounts. To assist with the provision of an education to students.	Required
Student names	To distinguish between students in a teacher's class. To assist with the provision of an education to students.	Required
Student ages	To calculate age related attainment and progress.	Required
Student emails	To provision online student accounts and allow students access to accounts.	Optional  (see below info)
Student demographic information (Gender, English as an Additional Language, FSM, Pupil Premium, SEN status)	To allow for grouping and analysis in the markbook and analytics module. To assist with standardisation.	Required
Student demographic information (Ethnicity, LAC status)	Ethnicity and LAC status are considered sensitive categories of data, and extra controls on use are therefore in place. Analysis is only available to those users who have the requisite permission applied to their account by a system administrator’.	Optional  (see below info)
Student teaching group / Year Group / Subject / Current nc year	To allow for grouping and analysis in the markbook and analytics module.	Required
Student UPN / MIS ID	To allow for matching of students in the Smartgrade database with school records on export.	Required

Optional scopes fall into two categories: 

1. Ethnicity/LAC permissions : if granted, these permissions give system admins the ability to view analysis using that data. System users never see Ethnicity/LAC analysis regardless of whether the permission level is selected.
2. Students contact details / Students email: these permissions are required if your school is using Smartgrade for online assessments.

If you have any questions regarding Wonde, you can contact us with your query, either by clicking on the "Help" button in the bottom right of the product to submit a query (see image below), or by emailing us at [e-mail]. 

For more information on privacy and security in Smartgrade, including a full list of data scopes that we process and the purpose for doing so, please see our privacy policy.