Step 1: Add Remind in Clever

• Add the Remind app to your district administrator account in Clever. 
• If you don’t already use Clever, you can sign up for a Remind account here.

Step 2: Share data with Remind via Clever

• Set sharing permissions for Remind to let Clever know what data you’d like to transfer.
• We recommend sharing by the school, even if you've purchased Remind for your entire district.
• Make sure to include the following data points:

• All data points are required except for preferred_language. However, We recommend providing the language preference for all teachers, students, and parents. You can learn more about sending auto-translated district and school-wide messages. If you choose to share this data:
  • You can add the preferred_language for teachers using Clever's teacher objects.
  • You must add the preferred_language for students and the guardian_preferred_language for parents to Clever's Student objects ext field. Clever does not currently provide a parent object. 
• The default is set to English if we do not receive the preferred language. Users can add a preferred language to their account at any time.

Please keep the following in mind when sharing data via Clever:

1. An account will be created for every parent/guardian contact shared with Remind. Before initiating a data share via Clever, we recommend you filter out emergency contacts and any individuals prohibited from contacting students. If our system detects more than five contact points for a student or if a user is linked to an emergency contact, we will place a hold on your sync.
2. Remind classes will be created for every section shared with Remind. We recommend reviewing your data permissions sharing rules and excluding inactive or classes you do not want to create in Remind. You can also use Clever Custom Sections to create Remind classes for athletic teams, after-school clubs, and other groups.
3. Students, teachers, parents, or administrators can change their preferred language in their profile settings. The new setting will override your shared language preference data with Remind.
4. This is the link to the values list we accept for the preferred language. Two-letter ISO-639-1, BCP-47, or three-letter ISO-639-2 or ISO-639-3 code.

You can see the data you share with Remind in the Clever data browser. If necessary, please get in touch with Clever to adjust your sync settings.

Step 3: Connect your schools in Remind

1. Sign in to your Remind account. Click on the SIS sync tab from your district admin dashboard, and select Start SIS sync.
2. Click sync with Clever, located at the bottom of the screen.
3. On the next page, click Continue with Clever.
4. Click Start Clever setup and follow the instructions on the next page to prepare your organization's data in your SIS and within Clever.
5. In Clever, install the Remind app.
6. In Remind, click I've installed the Remind app in Clever.
7. Log in to your Clever administrator account to connect your schools in Remind to your schools in Clever. If you’d prefer not to roster a school with Clever, deselect the school.
8. Match the Remind schools with the ones in Clever.
9. Review your selections and ensure the Clever schools match the corresponding Remind schools. Click Back on the bottom left if you need to correct any discrepancies. Click Next when you're ready to move forward.
10. Click the Go to SIS Sync button.

Remind will process the sync and immediately create accounts and classes. Initial syncs can take anywhere from 20 minutes to 24 hours. For future syncs, processing time should be at most 8 hours.

Administrators will be able to see the classes created in their administrator dashboard. Please note teachers will need to log in to Remind to claim the account. Teachers with an active account and active users of Remind will immediately gain access to their rostered classes.

You will receive a confirmation email with details of your sync and the next steps. If you’d like to change your Clever sync configuration settings in the future, contact the Remind Implementation team.

Step 4: Send teacher, student, and parent notifications

After you complete the Clever sync, you must notify teachers, students, and parents about their new accounts. Any district or school administrator can manually trigger notifications from each school’s SIS sync report. You can learn more about the first teacher, student, and parent notifications here.

Step 5: Add student mobile numbers to Clever-rostered accounts (optional)

Since Clever doesn’t store student phone numbers, student accounts created via Clever sync will only include email addresses. Students can add their mobile number to Remind by following these instructions.