generated: '2026-09-13' method: searched source: >- Live probes of api.pearson.com, developer.pearson.com and status.pearson.com, the PearsonDevelopersNetwork GitHub organization, and Pearson's published LearningStudio retirement guidance. note: >- Pearson once ran a substantial public API program — the Pearson Developers Network, with REST Course APIs, SOAP SIS APIs, an eventing surface, five first-party client libraries and a public blog. That program is gone. What survives is a login wall, a retired gateway, and an abandoned GitHub organization. This artifact records the retirement because it is the single most load-bearing fact about Pearson's API surface in 2026. status_page: url: https://status.pearson.com/ probed_status: 200 verified: true provider: Atlassian Statuspage detail: >- A live, comprehensive, per-product status page. Sections cover Higher Education Courseware (Learning Catalytics, Mastering, MathXL for School, MyLab, Pearson+, Pearson Interactive Labs, Revel, StatCrunch, third-party LMS integrations), English Language Learning (English Benchmark Young Learners, MyEnglishLab, Pearson English Connect, Pearson English Portal), Clinical Assessments, School Assessments, Pearson Virtual Schools, and UK Teaching and Awarding. A seven-day incident history grid is rendered per section. This is Pearson's strongest operational-transparency artifact. covers_apis: false covers_apis_note: >- Every component is an end-user product. No API, gateway or developer-platform component is listed, so an integrator cannot use this page to tell whether an API they depend on is up. versioning: policy_published: false detail: >- No public versioning policy. The retired LearningStudio SOAP contracts carried version in the path (UserManagement/v1_6, coursecopy v2.2), but no current Pearson-published API states a versioning scheme anonymously. deprecation: policy_published: false sunset_header: unknown detail: >- Pearson has performed real, dated API retirements (below) but does not publish a standing deprecation policy, a Sunset/Deprecation header commitment (RFC 8594), or a deprecation notice page at any anonymously reachable URL. Retirement guidance was communicated to contracted institutions and survives mainly on customer sites, not on a Pearson page. No `Deprecation` pointer is wired in apis.yml for this reason — the retirements are real, the policy is not published. sla: published: false detail: No public SLA or uptime commitment for any Pearson API. retirements: - product: Pearson LearningStudio (eCollege) LMS event: platform retired date: '2018-01-01' detail: >- The LearningStudio LMS was retired on 1 January 2018. The LearningStudio REST and SOAP APIs remained available afterwards so existing institutions could extract their data, and were deprecated with no new development expected. evidence: https://developer.pearson.com/products/learningstudio evidence_status: 401 - product: eCollege platform event: full shutdown date: '2023-10' detail: Pearson completed shutdown of the eCollege platform in October 2023. - product: api.pearson.com (LearningStudio API gateway) event: decommissioned date: observed 2026-09-13 detail: >- Every path on api.pearson.com now returns HTTP 403 with the body "We apologize, you have reached a service that has been moved. If you need further assistance please contact ptxcsoaops@pearson.com." evidence: https://api.pearson.com/openapi.json evidence_status: 403 - product: campusapi.ecollege.com (LearningStudio SIS SOAP endpoint) event: DNS removed date: observed 2026-09-13 detail: >- The soap:address location named in every LearningStudio SIS WSDL, https://campusapi.ecollege.com/UserManagement/v1_6/UserManagementServices.asmx, no longer resolves (NXDOMAIN). The contracts survive in Pearson's GitHub organization and are archived at wsdl/ in this repo; the endpoint does not. - product: Pearson Developers Network public documentation event: moved behind authentication date: observed 2026-09-13 detail: >- developer.pearson.com now SAML-redirects to Pearson's corporate Entra ID tenant and into a Salesforce Experience Cloud community. Every documentation path probed — /learningstudio/available-apis, /apis/exams, /products/learningstudio, /learningstudio/authentication — returns HTTP 401. evidence: https://developer.pearson.com/learningstudio/available-apis evidence_status: 401 - product: PearsonDevelopersNetwork GitHub organization event: abandoned date: '2016-09-23' detail: >- 20 public repositories of first-party client libraries and samples. The most recent commit to any of them is 2016-09-23; 17 of 20 were last pushed in 2014 or 2015. evidence: https://github.com/PearsonDevelopersNetwork evidence_status: 200 current_surfaces: - name: Pearson VUE Web Services host: ws.pearsonvue.com state: live-but-closed detail: >- An Azure API Management gateway that resolves and answers, but publishes no contract, no discovery document and no anonymous documentation. Pearson VUE markets API integration for candidate registration and results delivery to test owners; the technical surface is reachable only through a customer or partner engagement. evidence: https://ws.pearsonvue.com/ evidence_status: 500 - name: Credly by Pearson state: live-and-documented detail: >- The one Pearson-owned API with a public, machine-readable contract is Credly's, acquired by Pearson in 2022 and documented at docs.credly.com. It is profiled separately in the API Evangelist network as all/credly/ and is deliberately not duplicated here. evidence: https://docs.credly.com/browse/docs/getting-started evidence_status: 200