Getting Student Images/Avatars into Housing.Cloud

Housing.Cloud supports several ways for Institutions to import Student Avatars into the product. These import methods are in addition to in-product support where a student and/or admin may click the Avatar silhouette and upload an image from their computer. 

The three primary ways an Institution may upload Student images/avatars are:

1. Including the signed/public URL in the Profile CSV import under the adminAvatar column.
2. Provide Housing.Cloud with the base, template URL and basic authentication credentials (e.g. key=LqwXW!d7VKZFVhHcgyWg) that can be appended at the end of the URL string
3. A Rest API

There are various reasons why an institution may prefer one method over another. Below we will pose some questions to you that will hopefully help you rationalize your option.

• Do you currently store your assets in a "publicly" (i.e. accessible through a CDN) accessible fashion?
  • Yes:
    • Do all of your CDN URLs follow a template/pattern (e.g. https://housing.cloud/assets/{{SIS-ID}}.{{FILE-TYPE}}?{{KEY-NAME}}={{KEY-VALUE}})?)
      • Yes: Then in product support is possible
      • No: Then only Profile CSV is possible
  • No: Only the Rest API is possible