# Clever SSO for Schools

Let K-12 students, teachers, and staff sign in to your AVCodex app with their school district's Clever account.

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Clever is the identity provider most North American K-12 districts use to broker single sign-on across their edtech stack. If your app is deployed into a school district, Clever SSO lets students and staff sign in with the same account they use for everything else, with no new passwords and no district IT ticket per user.

## When you need this

Education is one of the largest verticals in professional AV, and district deployments come with identity requirements that corporate deployments do not:

- Districts generally will not allow student accounts to be created in a third-party system directly.
- Student data handling is governed by district policy and, in the US, by FERPA and often state-level student privacy law.
- IT wants one place to revoke access when a student transfers or a staff member leaves.

Clever solves all three by keeping the district as the source of truth.

## Setup

1. The district's Clever administrator adds your app from the Clever library or via a district-specific request.
2. The district approves the requested scopes and selects which schools or sections have access.
3. Configure the Clever connection in your app's **Access** settings.
4. Users then sign in through the Clever portal or via the Clever login button on your app.

Because provisioning is district-driven, you cannot self-serve this end to end. Budget time for the district's approval cycle, which is often measured in weeks rather than days.

## What you get

- Rostered identity. The app knows whether a user is a student, teacher, or staff member.
- Automatic deprovisioning when the district removes a user.
- No password management on your side.

## Practical notes for integrators

- **Scope the agent tightly for student-facing use.** A room-support agent that students can reach should not be able to reach ticketing, cost data, or staff-only knowledge sources. Use [Access Control](/docs/guides/access-control) alongside Clever, not instead of it.
- **Confirm the district's AI policy before you deploy.** Many districts now have explicit policy on AI tools touching student accounts, and it is separate from their general edtech approval.
- **Non-US districts.** Clever is primarily US K-12. Canadian districts more often use Entra ID or Google Workspace for Education, in which case use standard OAuth or [Bring Your Own Auth](/docs/guides/bring-your-own-auth) instead.

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