Turn SLC's Student Information Service into an API

What you can build on SIS

• Get unconfirmed attendances

  Build this

  Searches the Attendance Worklist by course and reads the Unconfirmed Attendances results, with the liability periods still due for each student.

  Takes

  Academic year, liability period, SLC course code (optional)

  Returns

  SSN, name, course name, course year, SLC course code, Tuition Fee Loan, total tuition fee, periods due, attendance code

• Get a tuition fee remittance report

  Build this

  Opens Financial Reports, then Remittance Report, filters by month and year created and reads each report's payment summary and student table.

  Takes

  Month created, year created, academic year

  Returns

  Payment date, payment type, number of payments, total fee amount, and per student SSN, name, course code, year of course, fee amount, revision indicator

• Check change of circumstance statuses

  Build this

  Searches View CoC by academic year, status, CoC type or last updated dates and reads each notification's type and status.

  Takes

  Academic year, status (optional), CoC type (optional), last updated between (optional)

  Returns

  SSN, student name, CoC type, status, date created, last updated

• Submit an attendance confirmation

  Build this

  Runs a Course Search on the Attendance Worklist, finds the student by SSN, picks an attendance code for the liability period due and selects Submit.

  Takes

  Academic year, SLC course code, SSN, liability period, attendance code

  Returns

  SSN, liability period, attendance code, status

Automate SIS with a workflow

A workflow runs your methods as one process, with nobody at the screen. A schedule or a call from your own system starts it, the steps run in order, and the result arrives in your inbox or in the systems you already use.

• Attendances still due before the Thursday cut-off

  Build this

  Starts

  Every Monday at 8:00, Europe/London

  Step 1

  For each SLC course code you name, get the unconfirmed attendances for the current liability period.

  Step 2

  Keep the students who still have a liability period due.

  Step 3

  Email you the list grouped by course, with SSN, name, course year and any code saved but not submitted.

• Weekly tuition fee remittance, posted to finance

  Build this

  Starts

  Every Friday at 9:00, Europe/London

  Step 1

  Get the tuition fee remittance reports created this month for the current academic year.

  Step 2

  Keep the reports that were not there on the last run.

  Step 3

  Post each report's payment date, type, total and student lines to your finance system's webhook.

• Daily CoC status changes, Failed ones first

  Build this

  Starts

  Every weekday at 9:00, Europe/London

  Step 1

  Check change of circumstance statuses for the current academic year, last updated in the past 7 days.

  Step 2

  Keep the CoCs whose status changed since the last run.

  Step 3

  Email you the list, Failed ones first, with SSN, student name, CoC type and status.

You can run a workflow by hand on every plan, Free included. Schedules and webhook triggers come with the paid plans, from $29 a month.

Once built, one call from your code

Once you have built a method, it is one POST to /v1/runs from your backend, or a tool an AI agent calls over MCP. This is what “Get unconfirmed attendances” would look like.

curl https://api.fous.com/v1/runs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOUS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "method": "secure.heservices.slc.co.uk/get_unconfirmed_attendances",
    "input": {
      "academic_year": "2026/27",
      "liability_period": 1,
      "slc_course_code": "ACM104"
    }
  }'

{
  "status": "completed",
  "data": {
    "students": [
      {
        "ssn": "ACME12345678",
        "full_name": "Jordan Example",
        "course_name": "BSc Computer Science",
        "course_year": 2,
        "slc_course_code": "ACM104",
        "tuition_fee_loan": 9535,
        "total_tuition_fee": 9535,
        "periods_due": [
          1
        ],
        "attendance_code": null
      }
    ]
  }
}

An example with invented data, not a ready-made endpoint. The method exists in your organization once you build it, and its name, inputs and fields follow your request.

SIS’s own options

The SIS user guide describes no API. Bulk work is done with files: you export a worklist, add your confirmations and import it back, and change of circumstance notifications can be imported as CSV or XML for undergraduates. Remittance reports export as a .dat file.

Read on November 12, 2026: Attendance worklist export, Withdrawal CoC, Tuition fee remittance report.

Signing in to SIS

SIS is reached through the HE Gateway, which asks for a username and password. A forgotten or first password is reset with a code sent by email, and each account is created by your institution's User Administrator. With Fous you sign in once through the HE Gateway's own sign-in with your own account: the login is sealed with AES-256, and an expired session is signed back in.

Worth knowing

A Thursday cut-off before each payment

Attendance for the October, February and May payments must be confirmed by close of business on the Thursday before. For weekly BACS payments, confirm by the Thursday of the week before.

A submitted positive code is locked

Once a positive attendance code is submitted it cannot be changed on the worklist: you raise a CoC to correct it. A negative code stays editable, and an earlier outstanding period must be submitted before a later one.

Two people for registration

SLC asks for independent validation of registration confirmations by at least two staff members, for example one person checks saved confirmations and another submits them. Saving and submitting are separate steps.

CoCs change status over hours or weeks

A submitted CoC updates within 24 hours, automated ones take 48 hours, and manual processing takes 20 working days, or 30 from August to the end of November.

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