Knewton

Knewton is an adaptive learning technology company founded in 2008 in New York City and acquired by John Wiley & Sons in 2019, where it now ships as the Knewton alta courseware line. Its developer-facing product is the Knewton Enterprise Platform API, documented at dev.knewton.com, which lets partner learning applications send learner interaction and performance data to Knewton and receive continuously personalized content recommendations and predictive analytics in return. The platform maps the pedagogical relationships between concepts in a partner catalog into a knowledge graph, then uses it to recommend modules, track goal status and progress, and generate predicted scores. The REST API is versioned at v0, uses OAuth 2.0 client-credentials tokens, and exposes accounts, learning instances, registrations, scoped goals, graded and ungraded student events, recommendations, status-and-progress metrics, and predicted score.

Knewton publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Consumer, Education, EdTech, and Adaptive Learning.

Knewton’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, authentication, sandbox, and 19 more developer resources.

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32.1/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 9/100 agent aware Front door AI 4/6 moderate saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-19 · rubric v0.22.0

AccessSelf serve

1 APIs

Company Consumer Education EdTech Adaptive Learning Learning Analytics Machine-Learning Recommendations Courseware Higher Education

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scored 2026-09-19 · rubric v0.22.0

Composite quality — 32.1/100 · thin

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 9.4 / 17

Access Clarity 3.6 / 17

Operational Transparency 2.6 / 11

Contract Governance 0.5 / 10

Discoverability 6.5 / 9

Regulatory Posture 9.7 / 15

Agent readiness — 9/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Knewton Enterprise Platform API

The Knewton Enterprise Platform REST API (v0) that partner learning applications integrate with to deliver continuously adaptive learning. Partners create anonymized user accoun...

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Knewton Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Knewton Authentication

oauth2/http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Knewton Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Knewton Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

0 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Sandbox

Sandbox

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

WellKnown

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

ErrorCatalog

Conventions

Lifecycle

DataModel

Conformance

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

Packages

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

StatusPage

Deprecation

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: knewton
name: Knewton
description: Knewton is an adaptive learning technology company founded in 2008 in New York City and acquired by John Wiley
  & Sons in 2019, where it now ships as the Knewton alta courseware line. Its developer-facing product is the Knewton Enterprise
  Platform API, documented at dev.knewton.com, which lets partner learning applications send learner interaction and performance
  data to Knewton and receive continuously personalized content recommendations and predictive analytics in return. The platform
  maps the pedagogical relationships between concepts in a partner catalog into a knowledge graph, then uses it to recommend
  modules, track goal status and progress, and generate predicted scores. The REST API is versioned at v0, uses OAuth 2.0
  client-credentials tokens, and exposes accounts, learning instances, registrations, scoped goals, graded and ungraded student
  events, recommendations, status-and-progress metrics, and predicted score.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/knewton/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- bessemer-venture-partners
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: live-developer-platform
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  - url: https://www.knewton.com/
    status: 302
    note: declared website redirects to https://www.wiley.com/en-us/grow/teach-learn/teacher-resources/courseware/knewton-alta/
      — a different registrable domain (knewton.com -> wiley.com), possible rename or acquisition (probed 2026-09-03, roadmap#169)
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
image: https://dev.knewton.com/knewton-theme/assets/images/layout/logo-kw.svg
tags:
- Company
- Consumer
- Education
- EdTech
- Adaptive Learning
- Learning Analytics
- Machine-Learning
- Recommendations
- Courseware
- Higher Education
tags_raw:
- Company
- Consumer
- Education
- EdTech
- Adaptive Learning
- Learning Analytics
- Machine Learning
- Recommendations
- Courseware
- Higher Education
apis:
- aid: knewton:enterprise-platform
  name: Knewton Enterprise Platform API
  description: The Knewton Enterprise Platform REST API (v0) that partner learning applications integrate with to deliver
    continuously adaptive learning. Partners create anonymized user accounts, establish learning instances against a Knewton
    knowledge graph, register learners and instructors, define scoped goals over learning objectives, stream graded and ungraded
    student events, and then retrieve personalized module recommendations, goal status-and-progress analytics, and predicted
    scores. Access is authenticated with OAuth 2.0 client-credentials tokens issued from partner API key and secret credentials
    provisioned by a Knewton representative.
  humanURL: https://dev.knewton.com/
  baseURL: https://api.knewton.com/v0
  tags:
  - Adaptive Learning
  - Recommendations
  - Learning Analytics
  - Education
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://dev.knewton.com/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://dev.knewton.com/reference/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://dev.knewton.com/implementation/getting-started/
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/knewton-authentication.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/knewton-rate-limits.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/knewton-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/knewton-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/knewton-data-model.yml
  - type: Sandbox
    url: sandbox/knewton-sandbox.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.knewton.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://dev.knewton.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://dev.knewton.com/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://dev.knewton.com/reference/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://dev.knewton.com/implementation/getting-started/
- type: Support
  url: https://support.knewton.com/s/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.knewton.com/
- type: Deprecation
  url: https://dev.knewton.com/implementation/api-versioning/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.wiley.com/en-us/legal/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.wiley.com/en-us/legal/privacy
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/knewton-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/knewton-scopes.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/knewton-rate-limits.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/knewton-problem-types.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/knewton-conventions.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/knewton-lifecycle.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/knewton-sandbox.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/knewton-data-model.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/knewton-conformance.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/knewton-packages.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/knewton-well-known.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/knewton-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/knewton-llms.txt
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/knewton-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

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