We work with you to get your data into Pulse! Kelvin provides a variety of simple, low-maintenance options for integrating data from your Student Information System (SIS). We can connect directly to your SIS via API, process flat files, or nightly SFTP uploads. This streamlined process enhances the accuracy of reporting based on school, grade level, class, and various important subgroups such as Race/Ethnicity, Programs, Gender, and more. We securely import your enrollment, rostering, and demographic data from your SIS while restricting users’ access to student data based on their rostering for FERPA compliance.

This depends on the surveys you’re using with the system. Many of today’s available instruments are only validated to certain grade levels (usually down to 4th grade in most cases). We’ve tested our technology and interfaces with children as young as Kindergarten, and you’d be surprised at how much they’re able to accomplish.

However, they often lack the literacy skills to reliably interpret questions and respond accordingly. We offer solutions and support to ensure you collect great data from your younger students.

Kelvin’s machine learning flags concerning comments like those related to self-harm and violence and notifies admins. However, no system is perfect. We recommend using other services like GoGuardian or Securly to monitor all web traffic for concerning comments and troublesome browsing activity. These tools were built for this purpose and can flag you of concerning comments in Kelvin as well as those made in other places like emails, search engines, chats, Google Docs, etc.

We take our role as stewards of Student Data very seriously. We are a proud signatory of the Student Data Privacy Pledge and are transparent in our data collection and use practices.We do not use Student Data for any purpose other than to provide the services on behalf of the schools that use Kelvin. Our collection, use, and disclosure of Student Data is governed by our Terms of Use, by the provision of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), and applicable state laws that relate to the collection of Student Data. We do not rent or sell data or permit advertising. We do not sell or monetize Student Data. We do not display advertising to students on Kelvin. We do not allow behavioral tracking by any third parties on Kelvin for the purpose of targeted advertising or to show ads on Kelvin. Instead, we are able to provide Kelvin’s technology to school districts in exchange for a transparent per-school or per-district pricing mode.