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