Access Instructions for School and District Staff

IMPORTANT ACTION REQUIRED: Iowa Education Portal (EdPortal) Transition to Okta

Please make sure all of your staff are aware of this and take the necessary steps to ensure uninterrupted access to FastBridge, Panorama and ACHIEVE. In order to maintain access, every user with an active account in the Iowa Education Portal (EdPortal) received an email regarding the transition to using Okta (id.iowa.gov) instead of A&A when logging into EdPortal beginning April 7th. View a copy of the original email here. 

Next steps:

  1. Before April 4th: Confirm your email address in EdPortal is up-to-date. If it needs to be updated, instructions are here and be sure to check with your student information system manager to ensure your email is the most recent there, as well (teachers may lose access to students).
  2. Create an Okta account on id.iowa.gov with your current email address. Instructions are here. 
    • Warning! Ignore the username field and go straight to the bottom of the window and click “Sign Up.” The system will notify you if you already have an account or else you will set up a new account. 
    • Also, be aware that multiple failed attempts on password resets may lock you or all users in your district out for 24 hours, especially if the district uses a mutual IP address setup.
  3. EdPortal will be unavailable the weekend of April 4-6th for the transition.
  4. Beginning Monday, April 7th, go to portal.ed.iowa.gov as normal. Use your Okta login credentials (email address and password for id.iowa.gov) to log into the EdPortal.

Have questions? Contact EdPortal support at (515) 725-2040 or ed.portal@iowa.gov

Updates will be made to access information below after the transition.

Panorama's Student Success is Iowa's MTSS and Early Warning System. All users access Student Success via the Iowa Education Portal (EdPortal), an Iowa Department of Education site that acts as a gateway to several education applications, including Fastbridge and Student Success. Specific steps are required for users to be granted access to Student Success via their EdPortal account and the steps are different for district vs AEA staff.

For School/District staff:

For LEA users, access to Panorama via EdPortal is based on MTSS roles assigned in the district's student information system, which connects to the user's account in EdPortal if the email addresses match. 

What about community partner preschool teachers (for PK myIGDIs)? Data are tied to the students’ information in the district’s student information system. In order to support myIGDIs data integration with Student Success, community partner preschool teachers will have to be set up in the public school’s student information system (SIS) with a role, and assigned to the school and class to tie the teacher to the student roster. Staff should work with the district’s data entry person for proper data entry and role assignment in the district’s SIS.

Follow the steps in this Quick Start Guide to setup access to Student Success for teachers and other school and district staff.

In the guide you'll find multiple links to instructions for the following:

      1. Create an account on EdPortal
      2. Assign an MTSS user role for Student Success in your district's student information system (JMC, Infinite Campus, or Powerschool)
      3. Allow overnight for EdPortal account and MTSS user role to connect
      4. Log into EdPortal to access Student Success