PIPS Services and Acronyms
Distinguish PIPS parent/carer authentication from PIPS+ staff and student account provisioning, and identify Edumate as their recorded source-data system.
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K12solutions is the company behind the PIPS products.
PIPS = Parent ID Passport Service
PIPS is pronounced "pips"
PIPS This service allows Parents and Carers to login to Edumate/CarerOrbit using the authentication provider of their choice. For example, they can
- authenticate using Gmail, Facebook and other third party services.
- authenticate directly with Edumate as long as a password has been assigned to their Edumate account.
Remember that the email address used for the login must match the parent email address recorded in Edumate.
PIPS+ = Parent ID Passport Service Plus
PIPS+ pronounced "PIPS Plus"
This service provisions and deprovisions student and staff accounts in M365.
The source data that PIPS/PIPS+ uses comes from Edumate.