# Pearson

> Pearson plc is the world's largest learning company — courseware, assessment,
> qualifications, virtual schools, English language learning and workforce skilling.
> This file is GENERATED by API Evangelist from the public record, because Pearson
> publishes no llms.txt of its own (www.pearson.com/llms.txt → 404,
> developer.pearson.com/llms.txt → 401).

## What an agent needs to know first

Pearson has no publicly callable API. It once ran a substantial developer program — the
Pearson Developers Network, with REST Course APIs, SOAP SIS APIs, an eventing surface and
five first-party client libraries — and that program has been retired and walled off:

- developer.pearson.com SAML-redirects to Pearson's corporate Entra ID tenant and into a
  Salesforce Experience Cloud community. Every documentation path returns HTTP 401.
- api.pearson.com returns HTTP 403 on every path: "We apologize, you have reached a
  service that has been moved."
- Pearson LearningStudio was retired 2018-01-01; the eCollege platform was fully shut
  down in October 2023; campusapi.ecollege.com no longer resolves.
- The PearsonDevelopersNetwork GitHub organization has not been pushed to since
  2016-09-23.

Do not attempt to call a Pearson API. There is no anonymous contract, no base URL that
answers, and no self-serve credential path.

## What Pearson does publish anonymously

- Status page (live, comprehensive, per-product): https://status.pearson.com/
- Responsible Security Disclosure Policy:
  https://www.pearson.com/en-us/legal-information/our-policies/responsible-security-disclosure-policy.html
  Intake: responsible.disclosure@pearson.com — coordinated disclosure, 24-hour
  acknowledgement target, no paid bounty.
- OpenID Connect discovery for the developer-portal login:
  https://developer.pearson.com/.well-known/openid-configuration
- LTI 1.3 / LTI Advantage integration guidance (Canvas, Brightspace, Sakai, Blackboard
  Learn, Moodle, Schoology):
  https://www.pearson.com/en-us/higher-education/educators/digital-learning-platforms/lms-integration-services.html
- Terms of use: https://www.pearson.com/en-us/legal-information/terms-of-use.html
- Privacy: https://www.pearson.com/en-us/legal-information/privacy-policy.html
- Support: https://support.pearson.com/
- Three retired SOAP WSDLs in Pearson's own GitHub org, archived in this profile under
  wsdl/ — the only machine-readable API contracts Pearson still publishes.

## Where the Pearson API surface actually is

- **Credly by Pearson** (acquired 2022) is the one Pearson-owned API with a public,
  documented, machine-readable contract: https://docs.credly.com/. It is profiled
  separately by API Evangelist as `credly`, not here.
- **Pearson VUE Web Services** (ws.pearsonvue.com) is a live Azure API Management
  gateway for test-owner candidate registration and results delivery. It publishes no
  contract and rejects anonymous calls; access runs through a test-owner engagement.

## Artifacts in this profile

- authentication/pearson-authentication.yml — OIDC profile of the portal login
- scopes/pearson-scopes.yml — the 36 scopes the portal IdP advertises
- conformance/pearson-conformance.yml — OIDC/OAuth/PKCE/DPoP verified; LTI claimed
- lifecycle/pearson-lifecycle.yml — the retirement record and the live status page
- packages/pearson-packages.yml — the abandoned first-party SDK set
- security/pearson-vulnerability-disclosure.yml — the disclosure program
- security/pearson-domain-security.yml — TLS/HSTS/DNS posture
- well-known/pearson-well-known.yml — the full discovery probe, hits and misses
- wsdl/ — three verbatim LearningStudio SIS SOAP contracts
- plans/, rate-limits/, mcp/ — verified zeros

## Corrections

This is an independent third-party profile. If Pearson publishes an API contract, or
anything here is wrong, open an issue at
https://github.com/api-evangelist/pearson or email info@apievangelist.com.