Teach Make for Digital Education Partners API

18 min

Use the Teach Make for Digital Education Partners API to check whether students qualify for the program and to send them coupons.

Prerequisites

To send coupon requests, you must have:

Registered your organization.

A Make secret key (the key sent to your email when you registered your organization).

Authentication

To access API endpoints for the program, use the following header with your Make secret. Make sends you the secret in an email when you register.

Key	Value
x-make-secret	Your Make secret

Check student eligibility

You can check student eligibility for the program before sending coupon requests:

Eligible: The student receives an email with a call to action to confirm their address.

Not eligible: The student is not contacted (error code 409 - duplicate). You inform the student that they've already used a Make coupon.

Endpoint

This endpoint checks whether a student is eligible for the program:

GET https://l.make.com/edtech-check-student

Headers

Name	Type	Required	Description
x-edtech-name	String	Yes	Your organization name
x-user-email	String	Yes	The student's email address (+ is an invalid symbol)

Request example

{
  "x-edtech-name": "your organization name",
  "x-user-email": "[email protected]"
}

Response example

{
  "transaction": "check-student",
  "status": "not_eligible - PENDING_MOBILE - 2026-03-15T12:44:56.000Z",
  "issued_on": "2026-03-15",
  "email": "[email protected]",
  "timestamp": "2026-06-02T13:55:07.478Z"
}

Send a coupon request in test mode

By default, your organization is set to test mode. In test mode, Make sends a non-functional coupon to the email address and phone number of the person who registered the organization, not to students.

Send a request in test mode first, then switch to production.

Endpoint

This endpoint enrolls a student in the program and triggers the coupon flow:

POST https://l.make.com/edtech-add-student

Body

Name	Type	Required	Description
x-ops-mode	String	Yes	TEST or PROD
x-edtech-name	String	Yes	Organization name exactly as written in the registration email
x-user-id	String	Yes	Student's internal user ID
x-schooling-id	String	Yes	Student's internal course ID
x-user-first-name	String	Yes	Student's first name
x-user-last-name	String	Yes	Student's last name
x-user-email	String	Yes	Student's email address (+ is an invalid symbol)
x-user-mobile-phone	String	Yes	Student's phone number in international format
x-custom-field-1	String	No	Additional information
x-custom-field-2	String	No	Additional information
x-custom-field-3	String	No	Additional information
x-custom-field-4	String	No	Additional information

Request example

{
  "x-ops-mode": "TEST",
  "x-edtech-name": "your organization name",
  "x-user-id": "your user id",
  "x-schooling-id": "your course id",
  "x-user-first-name": "student first name",
  "x-user-last-name": "student last name",
  "x-user-email": "[email protected]",
  "x-user-mobile-phone": "student phone number in international format",
  "x-custom-field-1": "optional-value",
  "x-custom-field-2": "optional-value",
  "x-custom-field-3": "optional-value",
  "x-custom-field-4": "optional-value"
}

Add any custom fields that you need, or delete them.

Response example

{
  "transaction": "add-student",
  "sub-transaction": "NEW",
  "status": "accepted",
  "email": "[email protected]",
  "comment": "OK - Process initiated successfully",
  "timestamp": "2026-06-17T11:15:57.622Z"
}

Send a request in production mode

Once your test request is successful, switch to production mode to send actual coupons to students:

Click the go-to-production link that you received in your registration confirmation email.

On the page that opens, click the button and submit the form.

Make sends you a confirmation email when your organization is set to production.

Send the same request as in test mode, but set x-ops-mode to PROD and use actual student data.

You've now sent a request in production mode.

Troubleshooting

This section covers rate limits, HTTP status codes, and solutions to common issues.

Rate limits

Make limits the number of API calls to five per minute. If calls exceed this number, the API returns a 429 error code. Wait, resend the request until you receive a 200 response.

HTTP status codes

When you make an API request, the API returns an HTTP status code to indicate whether your request was processed.

Code	Meaning	Action required
200	Processed successfully	No action required.
401	Missing secret	Resend with the correct secret.
401	Missing required field(s)	Resend with all required fields.
401	Account inactive	Check account status.
401	Account not found	Verify account details.
401	Incorrect secret	Resend with the correct secret.
401	Banned or hard-banned	Contact support.
408	Email is malformed or contains an alias character (+)	Resend with a valid email address.
409	Duplicate request	Check for duplicate submissions.
429	Too many requests	Wait, then resend.
500	Service unavailable	Wait, then resend.

Banned account

A high volume of failing requests triggers an automatic 24-hour ban. When this happens, stop sending requests and resolve the issue; each additional failing request extends the ban by another 24 hours.

If you exceed the failure threshold, your account is hard-banned. Contact support to unlock it.

Unrecognized account

401 errors citing an organization not found usually mean your company name is entered incorrectly.

Enter the company name exactly as it appeared during registration. To confirm the correct name, check any email you received after registration. Your company name appears at the top of each message.

Incorrect student email address

Students can only redeem a coupon after confirming a valid email address.

An invalid email format blocks redemption and returns a 408 error. If the student provides a correctly formatted email address that doesn't exist, the coupon won't be delivered to them and you won't be notified.

Incorrect student phone number or text message delivery failure

If a student's phone number is incorrect, or a text message can't be delivered, the program admin receives a text message notification at the number provided during registration.

If that number is also incorrect or unreachable, the notification goes to the admin email address provided during registration. Check your inbox regularly to avoid delays.

Contact support

For additional help, contact [email protected].