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. If your integration cannot handle any of these cases, please reach out to [email protected] to reflect this in our documentation so that our support team can better support our shared customers.

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