Higher Ed Sync Standard

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Banner, PeopleSoft, and Workday export feeds with missing VTIMEZONEs and broken RRULE syntax. We detect and repair 36+ RFC 5545 violations. Paste your feed URL to see exactly what's broken.

  • Works with Banner, PeopleSoft, Canvas
  • Fixes Timezone & DST offsets automatically
  • Prevent 'Calendar Spam' support tickets

Audit Your Higher Education Feed

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Detect 36+ RFC 5545 violations including missing VTIMEZONEs, broken RRULEs, and invalid UIDs. Get detailed error report.

RFC 5545 Compliance Audit

Common Infrastructure
Violations in Higher Education.

Our repair engine automatically detects and remediates these common failures found in Higher Education calendar feeds at the network edge.

Missing VTIMEZONE

Critical

Calendar feed lacks VTIMEZONE definition for non-UTC times

Impact

Events appear at wrong time on iOS/Android (typically 4-8 hours off)

How Lokr Fixes It

We inject RFC 5545-compliant VTIMEZONE blocks automatically

Technical Details

RFC 5545 §3.6.5 requires VTIMEZONE components for all non-UTC DATETIME values

Broken RRULE Syntax

High

Recurrence rule has invalid syntax or unsupported values

Impact

Recurring events fail to repeat or show incorrect instances

How Lokr Fixes It

We sanitize RRULE syntax and normalize FREQ, BYDAY, UNTIL values

Technical Details

RFC 5545 §3.3.10 defines strict RRULE syntax requirements

RRULE UNTIL Type Mismatch

High

UNTIL date type doesn't match DTSTART type (DATE vs DATETIME)

Impact

Recurring events end prematurely or extend indefinitely

How Lokr Fixes It

We normalize UNTIL to match DTSTART type and timezone

Technical Details

RFC 5545 §3.3.10 requires UNTIL to match DTSTART value type

Stale DTSTAMP

High

DTSTAMP is more than 7 days old

Impact

Calendar clients may reject updates or fail cache invalidation

How Lokr Fixes It

We refresh DTSTAMP to current UTC time on every request

Technical Details

RFC 5545 §3.8.7.2 requires DTSTAMP to reflect last modification time

Invalid Escape Sequences

Medium

Text fields contain invalid escape sequences like \t or \r

Impact

Text appears garbled or with literal backslashes

How Lokr Fixes It

We normalize to RFC 5545-compliant escape sequences (\n, \,, \;)

Technical Details

RFC 5545 §3.3.11 defines valid escape sequences for TEXT

Improper Line Folding

Low

Lines exceed 75 octets without proper CRLF folding

Impact

Some strict parsers reject file or truncate long lines

How Lokr Fixes It

We apply RFC 5545-compliant 75-octet line folding with CRLF

Technical Details

RFC 5545 §3.1 requires lines to be folded at 75 octets

Detailed Technical Analysis

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Technical Gap Analysis

Why Higher Education Feeds Fail

Legacy formats and device fragmentation break your infrastructure. Standardize your delivery layer today.

Syllabus Drift

Professors update the syllabus, but the student's static ICS download remains outdated, leading to missed exams.

Source
24H DELAY
REAL-TIME
Device

System Fragmentation

Canvas, Banner, and Salesforce all emit different calendar feeds. Students are forced to check three different apps.

Incoming Feed
DTSTART:20240101T090000 [!] MISSING VTIMEZONE
Lokr Normalized
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240101T090000

Timezone Confusion

International students and exchange programs struggle with class times rendering incorrectly on local devices.

LON09:00
NYCMISALIGNED
HKGMISALIGNED
SYDMISALIGNED
RAW
Warehouse LMS
VTIMEZONE Fix
Lokr Interceptor
CLEAN
Frontline Device
Processing: Sync_Batch_2991 RFC 5545 Verified
Protocol Standards

Built for Higher Education

Specialized infrastructure to remediate vertical-specific edge cases.

Clinical Rotation Sync

For Med & Nursing Schools: Ensure complex, rotating clinical shifts land accurately on student phones. No more excuses for missed rounds.

Athletic Scheduling

Dynamic updates for practice times, away games, and rain-outs. Keep the entire athletic department and student body aligned.

Registrar Integration

Direct sync with Ellucian Banner, PeopleSoft, and Workday Student. We handle the legacy data cleaning.

Trusted by Higher Education Teams

We don't sell to end-users. We build for the engineers and admins who have to keep the systems running.

"Ellucian Banner generates compliant ICS files for desktop, but they break on iOS. Lokr standardizes the output so students actually see their exam schedules."

James T.

University Registrar, Major State University

"Integrating Canvas was easy, but the calendar subscriptions were flaky. Lokr's proxy layer stabilized the Canvas feeds for over 40,000 students."

Elena R.

CIO, Private Research University

"We use Salesforce for alumni events. Lokr cleans the feed so alum on old Android devices still get the correct event times."

Marcus L.

Alumni Relations Tech Lead, Liberal Arts College

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. We sit downstream from your LMS. We ingest the feeds from Canvas, Blackboard, or D2L, repair the data structure (RFC 5545 compliance), and deliver a clean feed to students.

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$999 USD/year
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Standard

$4,999 USD/year
· $416 / month

Department-wide infrastructure.

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  • Full repair engine
  • 10 Department feeds
  • Registrar & Athletics Coverage
  • Priority .edu support
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Enterprise

Custom

Organization-wide infrastructure.

  • Campus-wide Site License
  • SIS Database Integration
  • Custom domain (cal.edu.com)
  • FERPA Compliance

Higher Education departments utilize the Standard plan to remediate SIS export errors.

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