Embed Parent/Student Portal Index  

Jupiter provides an API to let you embed grades, homework, etc. inside your own website, so when parents or students log into your website, they do not need to login separately into Jupiter. This requires a frameset, so the content comes live from our servers, but to the user it appears to be part of your website. The content still has the yellow color scheme and black tab-bar, but no "Jupiter" branding. To implement this, your IT staff must do some custom programming (more than just HTML). Here is how it works:

1.  The parent/student logs into your website using whatever ID and password you assign them. This does not need to match their Jupiter ID or password. Preferably your website should have separate logins for the student and each parent, but it's adequate if the family shares the same login.

2. 

The parent/student navigates to the webpage where the frameset will show the grades.

3. 

But before serving this webpage, your server submits a request to our server. The request must identify which student, something like this:

https://jupitergrades.com/login/embed.php?
id=09622&who=example@gmail.com
&district=10748&auth=8b5d20cf81c73556b1a3e23531473d75

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ID is the student's ID#, with or without leading zeros.
•Who = 0 for student, 1 for first parent(s), 2 for second parent(s), or an email address to identify which person is specifically logged in. This allows parents to edit settings that students cannot, such as alert preferences, and it lets you track exactly who has logged in and when, but otherwise it shows the same grading information. If omitted, or if the email address does not match anyone, it defaults to student.
•District & Auth are static codes we assign to you. Please contact us to request this.
•To hide the "Settings" tab so students/parents cannot change their contact info and password, append "&settings=0".
•You may use PUT or GET.
•You must use SSL, port 443. If a hacker gets your auth code, they could potentially see grades of anyone in your district. If there has been a security breach, please alert us and we'll assign you a new auth code.

4. 

Our server replies with just the URL unique to that student, something like this:

https://jupitergrades.com/login/private.php?171886,1932734968,,,1

If an error occurs it will return a URL with an alert message, like:

https://jupitergrades.com/login/embed.php?alert=Cannot+find+student+id%3D09622

5. 

Your server uses that URL to build the frameset and serves the webpage.

6. 

The parent/student sees their grades inside the frameset. They can click the tab-bar inside the frameset to navigate within Jupiter.

You may download our SDK for PHP