The ClassLink Integration

True Progress exists to help schools understand each student clearly enough to teach them well. For that to happen, students and staff need a straightforward way into the platform, and the school's rosters need to be reflected accurately.

There is more than one way to accomplish this, and none is better than another in principle. Many schools prefer to manage rosters themselves — importing a file, or adding accounts directly — and True Progress has supported that from the beginning and continues to. Other schools would rather it happen automatically. For schools that use ClassLink, True Progress connects through it.

With ClassLink, a student signs in once to a personalized portal — ClassLink calls it LaunchPad — and reaches every learning application from a single place, True Progress among them, without a separate username and password for each. For older students and staff, that alone removes a daily source of lost time.

For younger students, it removes the obstacle entirely. A first-grader does not need to type a school name, a username, and a password to begin. They hold up a QuickCard — a badge with a code ClassLink recognizes through the device's camera — and they are in. The minutes ordinarily spent walking a class of young children through several login fields each, and correcting the inevitable errors, are returned to instruction. Across a year, that is a considerable amount of reclaimed classroom time.

The only information that passes between True Progress and ClassLink is what is needed to sign in and to place each student in the correct class or group: usernames, passwords, and class or group assignments. Students' assessment data — their scores, their results, their diagnostic information — is never sent to ClassLink. It remains within True Progress.

Beyond that, the school determines exactly what is shared: which students, which classes, which staff, and nothing further. Administrators set rules governing what each application receives, and schools wanting to share even less can add DataGuard, a ClassLink upgrade that masks selected personal fields before they reach a vendor. Information is encrypted in transit and at rest, with multi-factor sign-in available for staff. ClassLink does not sell student information or use it for marketing.