In Product Avatar Configuration

Last updated: August 28, 2026

Housing.Cloud supports the ability for an Institution to specify a file path template used for hosting student avatars.

 

Requirements

  1. The image must be publicly accessible or accessible with an API key provided in the URL
    1. The key must be "relatively static" (i.e. the key should have a lifetime of a singular term at least)
  2. The image's filename (or last component of the file path) must be the students SIS ID
    1. An optional file type is also supported

URL Template

Example: https://housing.cloud/assets/{{SIS-ID}}.{{FILE-TYPE}}?{{KEY-NAME}}={{KEY-VALUE}}

Components:

Name Required Description

Example

SIS-ID Yes A Student's SIS ID in Housing.Cloud  
FILE-TYPE No Any standard image file extension jpg
KEY-NAME No Any string required for the authentication on your asset server/CDN key, secret
KEY-VALUE No Any string  

 

Configuration

  1. The Institution will provide all of the necessary URL components required
  2. A Housing.Cloud representative will configure the components in System Configuration
  3. An administrator will start the synchronization job
    1. The job can be run any any administrator at any time