Library Certification Guide
How Long Does it Take?
The time required to build an integration with Clever varies based on your business needs, data model, and technical constraints.
Certification Process
- Build Integration: Complete your Clever integration.
- Submit for Certification: Submit your integration for certification review.
- Review: Our Partner Engineering team will review your integration based on certification requirements.
- Results and Next Steps: You'll receive an email with your certification results and recommended next steps. If needed, we'll schedule a call to discuss your integration in detail.
How Do I Get Started?
- Create a Developer Account: Sign up at apps.clever.com/signup.
- Refer to Documentation: Check the Getting Started in the Library guide.
Checklist
Ensure the following items are complete before submitting for certification:
- Visit Clever Academy to understand how Clever works.
- Sign the Universal DSA. Contact [email protected] to receive the form. Example: Universal DSA.
- Upload marketing collateral in your dashboard.
- Thoroughly test your integration. Use the Testing Your Integration guide.
- Meet the integration requirements listed below.
Integration Requirements
Your app must:
- Use the authorization grant flow to support SSO.
- Provision accounts on-demand for all teachers and students (if you have a student experience).
- Provide a free trial or demo.
- Utilize all relevant data from Clever API.
- Support a student experience if applicable.
- Match users on Clever ID during login.
- Allow teachers to merge Clever accounts with existing accounts upon first login.
- Support students with multiple teachers.
- Support teachers with zero sections.
- Allow users to log in on the primary redirect URI, secured with HTTPS.
- Show a friendly error screen when logins fail.
- Update all data upon each subsequent login or provide a method for users to sync data.
- Clearly indicate to users that they are logged in to the correct account.
- Provide a "Log Out" button.
Recommendations
- Add a "Log in with Clever" button on the login page.
- Prompt users for required fields not available from the API during first login.
- Indicate automatic class roster imports from Clever (if your app supports classes/sections).
- Minimize onboarding steps using available fields from Clever API.
- Leverage available data from Clever (e.g., name, email, role, grade level, subject).
- Allow teachers to re-sync their data from Clever on demand.
- Allow teachers to select and customize which classes are surfaced and synced via Clever.
- Associate students with teachers via Clever API data, not by requiring entry of class codes.
- Support sections with multiple co-teachers.
- Support teachers with 10+ sections.
- Support sections with 100+ students.
- Support names containing UTF-8 characters (e.g., ñ or é).
- Override existing sessions to support students on shared devices.
Important Questions to Answer
- Does your integration work in:
- Chrome
- Firefox
- Internet Explorer
- Safari
- Mobile Safari
- Mobile Chrome
- What is the setup process when a teacher signs up for your app?
- Do you require roster information?
- Do you have specific rostering requirements (e.g., syncing only Math sections)? Will you build a UI to allow teachers to see only relevant sections/classes?
- Will you update data upon each login, or will users have an option to sync new data within your app?
- Do you support co-teachers? How will you handle this?
- Do you require any fields beyond those provided (e.g., school, district info)? Will you prompt the user for these during onboarding?
- Is there a period of inactivity after which you log someone out?
- What screen do users see when they are logged out? Does the window close?
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