Every district we work with runs on Microsoft or Google. Not some. Every one.
Their teachers check email in Outlook or Gmail. Their administrators store files in OneDrive or Google Drive. Their IT departments manage single sign-on through Azure AD or Google Workspace. Their staff collaborate in Teams or Google Chat. This isn't a preference — it's infrastructure. It's the operating layer that thousands of employees use eight hours a day, five days a week, ten months a year.
And yet, most analytics tools in K-12 ask districts to step outside of that infrastructure entirely. New login. New interface. New tab. New workflow. The result is predictable: the tool gets used by the three people who were enthusiastic enough to learn it, and everyone else goes back to pulling CSV exports into the same spreadsheet they've maintained since 2019.
We decided to build differently.
What We're Announcing
Arcline now integrates with Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace for Education. Not as a surface-level connection or a logo on a partnerships page — as a set of working integrations that change how district staff interact with their data on a daily basis.
Here's what that means in practice:
Single sign-on that actually works
Staff sign in through Azure AD (now Entra ID) or Google OAuth. No new account. No new password. No password reset email that goes to spam three months from now. If your district's IT coordinator has already provisioned a user in Microsoft or Google, they're provisioned in Arcline. If they've been off-boarded, their Arcline access ends automatically. One directory, one source of truth.
Reports go where your files already live
When a director of accountability generates an attendance summary or a Title I eligibility breakdown, they can export it directly to SharePoint, OneDrive, or Google Drive. Not as a downloaded file that has to be manually uploaded somewhere else — directly, into the folder structure their team already uses. The report shows up where the rest of their work lives.
Share findings without switching tools
If a superintendent wants to share a dashboard with their cabinet, they can push it to a Microsoft Teams channel or a Google Chat space. The recipients see the data in the tool they're already working in. No login redirect. No "you need to create an account to view this." A summary with a link back to the live dashboard for anyone who wants to dig deeper.
Connect existing data pipelines
Many districts have already built data flows through their Microsoft or Google infrastructure — automated reports that land in SharePoint libraries, student records that sync through Google-connected systems. Arcline can pull from these existing pipelines, which means less duplication and fewer places where data can fall out of sync.
Why We Built This Now
We didn't build these integrations because they were on a product roadmap checklist. We built them because the same conversation kept happening.
"Every district conversation started the same way: 'We're already in Microsoft' or 'We're a Google district. Can you work with what we have?' The answer needed to be yes — not eventually, not with workarounds, but today."
— James Crawford, Head of Partnerships
In Albemarle County Public Schools in Virginia — a Google Workspace district — the director of technology told us their staff had "app fatigue." Not because any individual tool was bad, but because every tool required its own context switch. Opening a new tab, remembering a different password, learning a different interface. Multiply that by the 15 to 20 platforms a typical district IT department manages, and you get a workforce that has more tools than time.
The answer isn't fewer tools. The answer is tools that live where the work already happens.
Part of a Broader Integration Approach
Microsoft and Google integrations join a set of connections we've been building since day one. Arcline already supports data exchange through Ed-Fi Alliance standards, the interoperability framework used by thousands of districts and mandated by several state departments of education. In Texas, we work with the Texas Education Exchange for districts that share data through that state-specific infrastructure.
The philosophy is the same across all of them: districts shouldn't have to restructure their systems to use Arcline. We connect to what exists. Whether that's an Ed-Fi ODS, a Texas Education Exchange feed, Azure Active Directory, or a Google Workspace domain — the integration work is on us, not on an already-stretched IT team.
What's Coming Next
These initial integrations cover authentication, file sharing, and team collaboration. We're already working on deeper connections:
- Automated reporting schedules via calendar integration. A chief academic officer sets up a recurring monthly attendance report. It generates automatically and lands in their Teams channel or Google Drive folder on the first Monday of each month. No manual export. No reminder to run the numbers.
- Native dashboard embedding. Arcline dashboards embedded directly as Microsoft Teams tabs or in Google Sites pages. A principal's morning briefing page — the one they already check every day — includes live enrollment figures, attendance trends, and early warning indicators without opening a separate application.
We'll share more on both as they're ready for production.
Where the Answers Should Be
The best analytics platform is the one your team actually uses. Not the one with the most features on a comparison chart. Not the one that won an award at a conference. The one that people open, ask questions, and get answers from — repeatedly, without friction, as part of their normal workday.
If your staff are already in Microsoft or Google eight hours a day, that's where the data should be too. That's the premise. These integrations are how we deliver on it.
If your district runs on Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace and you'd like to see how this works in practice, reach out to our team at partnerships@arcline.io. We'll set up a working demo in your environment, with your SSO, in about 30 minutes.
