aid: kortext
name: Kortext
description: Kortext is a UK-headquartered digital learning and student engagement company, founded in
  2013 and led by CEO James Gray, that supplies etextbooks, course content, AI study tools and learning
  analytics to higher education institutions in the UK, US, Ireland, Australia and the Middle East. Its
  platform family covers content delivery and reading (Kortext study, read.kortext.com), the AI-assisted
  study layer (Kortext study+, Kortext IQ), teaching and reading-list tools (Kortext teach, KeyLinks),
  library acquisition workflows (Kortext acquire), engagement analytics (Kortext insights) and the unified
  Kortext fusion content and data layer. Publisher partners include Pearson, Wiley, McGraw Hill, Taylor
  & Francis, Oxford University Press and Palgrave, and in 2025 Follett Higher Education moved its North
  American ebook delivery onto Kortext. Institutional integration runs over 1EdTech LTI 1.1 and LTI 1.3
  (including Deep Linking) into Blackboard, Moodle, Canvas and other VLEs, plus EDI and API integration
  with library management systems such as Ex Libris Alma. Kortext does not operate a public developer
  portal; its production APIs are authenticated and undocumented publicly, and the only openly published
  machine-readable contract is the OpenAPI 3.1 description of its AI "labs" study-tools API.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kortext/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
image: https://kortext.com/us/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Kortext-White-EST-logo-transparent-980x255.png
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-23'
modified: '2026-08-23'
tags:
- Company
- Education
- EdTech
- Higher Education
- Digital Textbooks
- Learning Analytics
- Artificial Intelligence
- Content Delivery
- LTI
- Libraries
- Student Engagement
- Publishing
tags_raw:
- education
- edtech
- higher-education
- digital-textbooks
- learning-analytics
- artificial-intelligence
- content-delivery
- lti
- libraries
- student-engagement
- publishing
apis:
- name: Kortext Labs AI Study Tools API
  description: FastAPI-generated service ("labsapi") behind Kortext's AI study features — quiz sessions
    generated from a book, a URL or pasted text; content indexing and retrieval-augmented chat over a
    student's Kortext bookshelf and uploaded files; flashcards, mnemonics, idea compass, reading plans,
    Mermaid visualisations and "extract wisdom" summarisation; podcast generation from content; and per-content
    study analytics (total time, confidence score, knowledge items, quiz session stats). 67 operations
    across Quiz, Content, Chat, Reading List, Podcast, Labs and Health Checks tags, secured with HTTP
    bearer tokens. The OpenAPI 3.1.0 description is served unauthenticated from Kortext's own labs demo
    and QA hosts; the operations themselves are bearer-gated.
  humanURL: https://api-demo.labs.kortext.com/docs
  baseURL: https://api-demo.labs.kortext.com
  tags:
  - Artificial Intelligence
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - Student Engagement
  - Learning Analytics
  tags_raw:
  - artificial-intelligence
  - education
  - higher-education
  - student-engagement
  - learning-analytics
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/kortext-labs-api-openapi.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api-demo.labs.kortext.com/docs
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api-demo.labs.kortext.com/redoc
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/kortext-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/kortext-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/kortext-data-model.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/kortext-conventions.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/kortext-labs-api-overlay.yaml
- name: Kortext VLE / LTI Integration API
  description: The institution-facing integration surface behind vle.kortext.com — 1EdTech LTI 1.1 launch
    and LTI 1.3 Deep Linking endpoints that place Kortext content and KeyLinks reading lists inside Blackboard,
    Moodle, Canvas and other VLEs, plus authenticated REST resources for books, consumers (institutions),
    journeys and KeyLinks lists. Endpoint paths are published in the application's own runtime configuration
    at /assets/config.json; the resources themselves return 401 without an institutional token and Kortext
    publishes no OpenAPI for them.
  humanURL: https://kortext.com/blog/platform-updates/how-we-integrate-with-your-workflow/
  baseURL: https://vle.kortext.com
  tags:
  - LTI
  - Education
  - Higher Education
  - Libraries
  - Content Delivery
  tags_raw:
  - lti
  - education
  - higher-education
  - libraries
  - content-delivery
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kortext.com/blog/platform-updates/how-we-integrate-with-your-workflow/
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/kortext-conformance.yml
- name: Kortext Platform API
  description: The authenticated application API behind app.kortext.com serving the Kortext study reader
    and companion apps — identity, content, upload, cover, features, assessments, events and the genai
    and study-tools paths. Base paths are published in Kortext's own front-end runtime configuration;
    every resource requires a token issued by app.kortext.com/account/token and no public specification
    or developer documentation is offered.
  humanURL: https://app.kortext.com/identity/signin
  baseURL: https://app.kortext.com
  tags:
  - Education
  - Content Delivery
  - Higher Education
  - Digital Textbooks
  tags_raw:
  - education
  - content-delivery
  - higher-education
  - digital-textbooks
  properties:
  - type: Login
    url: https://app.kortext.com/identity/signin
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/kortext-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://kortext.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://api-demo.labs.kortext.com/docs
- type: APIReference
  url: https://api-demo.labs.kortext.com/redoc
- type: Support
  url: https://uk.support.kortext.com/s/
- type: Blog
  url: https://kortext.com/us/news/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://app.kortext.com/identity/signup
- type: Login
  url: https://app.kortext.com/identity/signin
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://kortext.com/us/website-terms-and-conditions/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://kortext.com/us/privacy-policy/
- type: Store
  url: https://store.kortext.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://api-demo.labs.kortext.com/docs
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://kortext.com/blog/platform-updates/how-we-integrate-with-your-workflow/
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://support.na1.kortext.com/s/
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/kortext-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/kortext-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/kortext-problem-types.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/kortext-data-model.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/kortext-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/kortext-conformance.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/kortext-packages.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/kortext-llms.txt
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/kortext-labs-api-overlay.yaml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/kortext-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/kortext-rate-limits.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/kortext-changelog.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://kortext.com/blog/platform-updates/
- type: Accessibility
  url: https://kortext.com/us/accessibility-commitment-statement/
- type: CookiePolicy
  url: https://kortext.com/us/cookie-policy/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
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