Setting up and using Clever with Imagine Sonday System Digital products

Clever is a third-party service that connects your district's Student Information Systems (SIS) with Imagine Learning's Sonday System Digital products: Sonday System 1 (SS1), Sonday System 2 (SS2), Essentials K–5 (E K–5), and/or WinVocab. 

Clever provides these services:

• Roster creation for Sonday System Digital products: Clever synchronizes class, student, teacher, and administrator roster data with your district SIS and uploads it to Imagine Learning using an SFTP connection or the OneRoster 1.1 API format. Administrators determine what roster data is shared with Imagine Learning.

   Note

  Your Customer Success Manager (CSM) must promote at least one administrator as the Primary Administrator manually inside the digital platform after the roster has been sent to Imagine Learning.

• Single Sign-On (SSO) teacher access to Sonday System Digital products: Clever provides Imagine Learning with teacher identity information for Single Sign-On (SSO). Single Sign-On allows your teachers to log in to Clever and automatically access Sonday products from the Clever Launchpad without having to log in separately to teacher.imaginesonday.com.

  • As a reminder, there is no student login directly to Sonday products, so SSO access is not applicable to students. 
  • For the time being, administrators must continue to log in via admin.imaginesonday.com until SSO can be made available to them in the future.

   Note

  You can use Clever for roster creation without using it for teacher SSO if you prefer.

Districts use the Clever application at the beginning of each year, and periodically throughout the year, to share student roster information and updates with Imagine Learning. When Imagine Learning receives your rostering data, it is transferred into the Sonday System Digital products that are associated with your district, school, and account. The Clever application defines the data sharing permissions and controls the data sharing process.

Before you share your rosters with Imagine Learning, you'll need to set up your SIS and the Clever application. 

To set up Clever to share roster data, follow these instructions on the Clever Support site:

1. Clever + Imagine Learning Setup Guide
2. Adding external links in Clever
3. Sharing permissions in Clever