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