Syncing Grades with an LMS: What It Solves, What It Presupposes

The real problem: the grade typed twice

When the exam runs in one tool and the gradebook lives elsewhere, every session ends with an export and a manual re-import. That is the leading source of drift between a student's official transcript and what they see in their portal — and the drift usually surfaces at the exam board.

Two ways to solve it, not one

The first is a connector. LTI 1.3 Advantage, through Assignment and Grade Services, writes a grade line back into the LMS. It presupposes tool registration, keys, granted scopes and end-to-end tests — and it exists only if the vendor has genuinely implemented and verified it on your LMS version.

The second is not to split the systems at all: if the exam session, grading, gradebook and report card share one database, there is nothing to synchronise.

The route Educati takes

Educati takes the second. A session is scheduled with its room, named seats and invigilators; entered marks feed the gradebook, report cards and transcripts directly, on the Moroccan /20 scale. For academic obligations the platform produces AREF and MASSAR exports; beyond that, CSV exports. No LTI connector is offered, and none is announced here.

What to ask a vendor promising sync

Which LTI services are implemented? On which LMS versions were they tested? What happens when a grade is edited afterwards, or a student is unenrolled? And above all: which system owns the data when the two gradebooks disagree?