Reading Assistant Classlink Rostering
- Forrest Rose
- Sarah Fennema
Rostering Reading Assistant with Classlink
If your district uses ClassLink, here’s how to get started with Reading Assistant. This article outlines the setup process for sharing data and preparing your team for a successful launch.
Once your district or school has purchased Reading Assistant, your Customer Success Specialist (CSS) will contact you to schedule a leader planning meeting. During this meeting, you’ll discuss your goals for using Reading Assistant and determine the best implementation strategy for your team and students. Your CSS will also collect key details needed for rostering, including your IT or rostering contact, the schools involved, and other relevant information.
Using this information, your CSS will submit a case to our rostering team to initiate the rostering process. If needed, we’ll schedule an additional meeting to review technical requirements, answer questions, and confirm the data to be shared. Please ensure that only the appropriate schools and users are included in the data shared with Reading Assistant.
Classlink Specific Information
The only roles supported by Reading Assistant are Administrator, Teacher, and Student.
Only District and School orgs are supported by Reading Assistant (department orgs are not supported)
A single district-level organization must be shared, and it is required that this be the only organization shared.
Users assigned the Administrator role and associated with the District org will receive District Admin access in Reading Assistant. Those assigned as Administrators and associated with a School org will have School Admin access for their designated school.
When you’re ready to add the Reading Assistant application to your Classlink Org, follow the steps below.
Classlink Roster Server
The roster server is where you manage your data and share it with apps.
In Roster Server, go to Apps at the top of the page
Click the blue +Add button on the far right to add a new app
In the search box, type in Reading Assistant, then click the blue Add button next to the correct app. Once you do this, you will be taken to the filtering screen, where you can add your permissions.
There are 2 choices EPS Reading Assistant and EPS Reading Assistant for SPIRE. Choose the correct one. If you are unsure which application you need to choose, reach out to support@epslearning.com
We recommend using Rule-Based permissions to share data with Reading Assistant. It’s crucial to the success of your implementation that you only share data with Schools, classes, and users who need access to Reading Assistant.
To add a rule, click the blue + icon on the far right. Add permissions for the school, courses, teachers, students, and admins who need access.
When adding classes, it will automatically pull in associated students and teachers.
Reading Assistant needs access to your District organization, along with the schools using it.
If this is your first time adding Reading Assistant, you will need to enable the app.
Go back to Apps at the top of the page.
Next to the Reading Assistant Learning app, it will say “Disabled” with a toggle button. Toggle to “Enabled”.
We will not be able to sync your data if you do not enable the Reading Assistant app.
Management Console
Now that you’ve shared your data with Reading Assistant, you should go into your Management Console to assign permissions. This is where you manage your SSO applications and user assignments.
Add the Reading Assistant Learning app to the application library. Go to Applications > Add & Assign Apps.
In the App Library, type in Reading Assistant or EPS Reading Assistant for SPIRE and select Add on the app to add it to your SSO application list.
Go back to your app library and search for Reading Assistant. There are two ways to assign the application to your users.
Assign the app to an entire library. If you add the app here, any teacher in that library can see the app and add it there.
Assign App allows you to assign the app to specific profiles, orgs, groups, users, etc. This is the method we recommend.
If you assign the app to users whom you have not shared with Reading Assistant via the Roster Server, they will not be able to launch Reading Assistant.
You’re all done! Now that you’ve assigned the app to users, Reading Assistant Learning will appear on their Classlink dashboard!
EPS Learning must provision your organization before users can access Reading Assistant.
Once you've completed the setup, the final step is for the EPS Learning Technical Support team to connect the ClassLink data you’ve shared to Reading Assistant. Users won’t be able to launch Reading Assistant until this connection is established and will see an error message if they try. Be sure to notify your rostering partner that these steps are complete so the integration can move forward.
This process can take up to 72 business hours. Once the connection is made, your Reading Assistant roster partner will contact you and let you know you’re all set up.