Rostering - ClassLink FAQs

Studies Weekly does not charge districts to roster with ClassLink. However, as with other third-party rostering services, we require that publications be purchased for your students and teachers so they can fully utilize Studies Weekly Online.

Yes, Studies Weekly Online does support staff and administrators shared through the ClassLink roster. Users with the "administrator" role in your OneRoster data will be given the District Administrator role in Studies Weekly Online.

Users with the "Aide" or "Proctor" roles in the OneRoster data are assigned to standard teacher accounts in Studies Weekly Online.

The Studies Weekly Online 3.0 Oauth2 application, with the blue Studies Weekly logo, is our most up-to-date SSO application.

If you are already using an automated rostering integration with Studies Weekly, then Studies Weekly Online will determine account continuity based on the sourcedId and email fields of your shared OneRoster user records. If the user has the same email OR sourcedId in their new ClassLink OneRoster record as in their already existing record, then the ClassLink rostering integration will seamlessly merge into the existing account. If both the sourcedId and email fields for the new record are different, a new account will be created for the user, and the old account will be disabled. 

If you are not using an automated rostering integration with Studies Weekly, then account continuity is solely based off of the email of the existing account. If the new OneRoster record's email matches the existing email, then the ClassLink account will be merged into the existing account. Otherwise, a new account will be created. Any existing accounts not matching an email from the OneRoster records will not be affected.

Existing data will merge into new accounts if the account has a matching email OR sourcedID. If not, then the new account will not retain any data from the old account.

Studies Weekly accommodates non-primary teachers enrolled in additional classrooms in your OneRoster records. The additional teachers will have the same access to the classroom as the primary teacher. OneRoster aides and proctors are given the teacher role in Studies Weekly Online. OneRoster administrators are given the "district administrator" role in Studies Weekly Online. Non-admin users must be enrolled in the class they wish to access in Studies Weekly Online. If they do not have an enrollment record for the class, it will not be accessible from their account. Even if they are not enrolled in any rostered classes, your users can access Studies Weekly Online and manually create a test classroom to access the online publications.

Rostered users will sign in to Studies Weekly Online either by entering from the SWO 3.0 Application within ClassLink or using the "LOG IN WITH CLASSLINK" button on our login page. Users with manually created accounts will have to sign in using their credentials at the standard login page.

Once your district has added the Studies Weekly Online application to ClassLink and enabled roster sharing, we can change your roster configuration to use ClassLink and sync the new data immediately. This can be done at any time, but we recommend that it be done at least a week before the accounts and classrooms are needed so that we can make sure that everything is working without issue.