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Couchdrop for Education

Secure SFTP and managed file transfers for education

Exchange sensitive student and institutional files with authorized agencies, vendors, banks, and education partners. Control access, connect your existing storage, and maintain a traceable record of every transfer.

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Exchange files securely across systems and partners

Connect your SIS, file storage, and external partners through managed SFTP, secure sharing links, and automated workflows without maintaining separate servers, scripts, or partner portals.

Connect systems and partners with managed SFTP

Create separate SFTP endpoints for your SIS, EdTech vendors, assessment providers, banks, and government agencies. Move roster, financial aid, payment, and reporting files without deploying or maintaining transfer servers.

Share and collect files securely

Deliver files through protected shared links or collect documents through branded upload links. Students, parents, schools, and external partners can exchange files without email attachments or access to your internal storage.

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Automate recurring file workflows

Move, rename, route, encrypt, and process files on a schedule or as soon as they arrive. Reduce manual handling while keeping student and institutional data flowing between the right systems.

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Key features

SFTP/FTP Transfers

SFTP & FTP as a service

Workflow Automation

Automate transfers and processing

Transfer Shield DLP

Protect sensitive data in motion

File Sharing

Create secure download links

Document Collection

Request files via secure web portal

Mailboxes

Save email attachments to cloud

Couchdrop adds SFTP and managed file transfer capabilities to more than 30 cloud storage platforms and services

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Protect student and institutional data as it moves between organizations

Couchdrop provides controls that support secure data handling and help organizations meet their responsibilities under frameworks including FERPA, PPRA, COPPA, and other privacy, security, and data-protection regulations.

Encrypt data in motion

Transfer files through SFTP, FTPS, and HTTPS, with PGP encryption available when a partner requires file-level protection. Encryption protects student and institutional data as it moves between systems, contributing to the safeguards organizations use to protect education records under FERPA and personal information covered by COPPA.

Restrict access to approved users and partners

Give each user or endpoint access only to the folders and workflows required for its role. Scoped permissions help institutions limit education-record access to authorized parties with a legitimate purpose, a central FERPA requirement, while reducing unnecessary exposure of children’s personal information.

Maintain a traceable record of file activity

Record transfers, logins, administrative changes, workflow events, and failures in one place. These audit trails help teams investigate incidents, demonstrate how an exchange was handled, and contribute to the record-keeping and oversight processes required by institutional policies and applicable privacy frameworks.

Keep files in approved storage

Route incoming and outgoing files through storage controlled by your institution, including SharePoint, Google Workspace, Amazon S3, and Azure Blob. Keeping approved systems as the destination reduces uncontrolled copies and helps teams apply their existing retention, access, and data-location policies to education records and PPRA-covered material.

Stop sensitive data at the transfer boundary

Use Transfer Shield to detect sensitive content and apply policies that allow, block, or hold a transfer for review. These controls help prevent unauthorized disclosures and give institutions a practical way to enforce FERPA, COPPA, and state student-privacy policies where data crosses organizational boundaries.

Connect identity, access, and security monitoring

Use SAML SSO for supported web access, manage user lifecycles through SCIM, and send activity events to supported SIEM platforms. Centralized identity and monitoring help IT teams remove access promptly, detect unusual activity, and assess whether safeguards remain effective, while the institution retains responsibility for testing, review, and compliance decisions.

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Move files through SFTP and automated workflows, while keeping control over access, storage, and transfer records.

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