Clever

What is Clever?

Clever is an identity platform for education that lets schools and learning applications manage identities and data and gives students single sign-on access to digital learning. It connects a school's student information to the apps it uses. Clever Global covers Canada, the U.K. and Ireland, and Australia and New Zealand.

Key features of Clever

• Secure Sync Rostering: Keeps student and class rosters in sync with apps.
• Single sign-on: One login across learning applications, with Clever Badges for younger students.
• Identity management: Identity Management, Secure Password Management and Multi-Factor Authentication.
• Classroom Portal and analytics: Portal for classrooms plus usage analytics.
• Application partner tools: Rostering, Clever LMS Connect and single sign-on for app developers.
• Services: Clever Training, Consulting Services and Premium Support.

How Clever works

Schools connect their student information system to Clever, which syncs rosters to approved apps and gives students a single sign-on portal. App partners integrate once with Clever to reach many districts. The vendor describes one integration that works everywhere.

Who uses Clever?

K-12 schools and districts use Clever to manage access, and edtech companies use it to simplify rollout to schools. The vendor names partner hubs such as Google, HMH, McGraw Hill and Prodigy.

Clever pricing

The vendor labels Data and Access, Digital Classroom and Clever Academy as free, and offers a Pricing page for paid products such as Secure and premium services. Specific amounts are not listed on its homepage.

Clever integrations

Clever integrates with learning applications through its Apps on Clever gallery and names partner hubs including Google, HMH, McGraw Hill and Prodigy.

Clever alternatives

Google Classroom is a classroom tool with its own Google sign-in, rather than a cross-app identity layer. Canvas LMS is a learning management system and Schoology is another LMS. PowerSchool is a student information system, and GoGuardian provides device filtering and monitoring.