Library - Data Model Quirks and Supported Features
Data in Clever can experience a number of edge cases listed below. Although these are not typical cases, it's a good idea to be prepared for these to occur.
General
- Clever's strings have no maximum length (if you must specify a field length, we recommend 255 chars as a safe limit)
- Clever's strings support all UTF-8 characters
Sections
- Sections are the only way student and teacher associations are described in Clever. If a student or teacher is not enrolled in any sections, they will not be associated with any students/teachers.
- Sections must have at least one student
- Sections can have only one primary teacher.
- There is no limit of how many students may be enrolled in a section
- Section names are not guaranteed to be unique
- Section grade might not match all students grades
- Course and term information not available
Students
- Students can be enrolled in multiple sections
- Students might have identical names
- Classroom integrations will only receive the first name and last initial of students
Teachers
- Teachers can teach multiple sections
- Teachers might not teach any sections
- There isn't a normalization of email format (emails may be missing the '@' sign)
School Administrators
- Have no access to Classroom integrations
District Administrators
- Have no access to Classroom integrations
Student Contacts
- Have no access to Classroom integrations
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