Frequently Asked Questions for Administrators

Yes, this works for all Easybridge districts. Teachers in EasyBridge Plus districts who would like to use the Google Classroom™ integration can match their Easybridge classes in Realize to a Google Classroom™ class. Teachers who do not use Google Classroom™ can choose to use the Easybridge-created classes in Realize. It is recommended to proceed to the Realize using Easybridge. This enables to cater to all of the teachers, including those who do and those who do not use Google Classroom™.

When a teacher imports a Google Classroom™ class into Realize, it always creates a new class within Realize. These newly created classes appears alongside any classes that were previously created through either an EasyBridge integration or through manual class creation directly within Realize. The Google-created classes are clearly marked with a Google Classroom™ icon, so teachers can easily distinguish them from any classes in Realize that are not Google-linked. Teachers who only want to use the Google-linked classes in Realize can connect non-Google classes to Realize in their Realize settings. Teachers then can tell students to only access Realize through the Google Classroom™ assignments created by the teacher via the Realize integration.

For EasyBridge Plus, there are two options:

• If the district is among those integrated with EasyBridge Plus and supplying matching Google account name Federated ID's in the ingestion files, the student are permitted to have only one Savvas identity for Realize access if a student is rostered to an EasyBridge class and also part of an imported Google Classroom™ class. The student's Savvas identity is created through the EasyBridge import process.
• If the EasyBridge Plus district has Google Classroom™ linking enabled, but is not supplying matching Google account name Federated ID's in the ingestion files, students are prompted to connect their Google Classroom™ account with their Savvas account the first time they access a Realize assignment in Google Classroom™.

Yes. Teachers in EasyBridge Plus districts can connect their Google Classroom™ classes with their Realize classes that are generated by EasyBridge. Learn more in the Google Classroom™ Account Linking help file.

If Google Classroom™ linking is ON, all students need to be sent with the nightly ingestion.

No, the data sent to Easybridge are not overwritten by any activity invoked by teachers using the Google Classroom™ integration. Instead, all Google-imported classes create new class rosters that use Google Classroom™ as the system of record for the classes instead of EasyBridge, and all Easybridge classes continues to be provisioned by the data files.

If the district is among those who use Google as the Identity Provider in the SAML SSO integration with Easybridge and Realize, then students are able to sign into Realize with their Google identity and access the eText. For all other students, we recommend that they always access Realize via Google Classroom™ assignments. It is possible for the teacher to create an assignment of the eText itself to provide direct access to the Realize eText.

Teachers and students can continue to access Realize via Google waffle icon link, because the district is integrated using Easybridge Plus with Google as the Identity Provider.

We recommend contacting the SIS vendor to see what they might offer. The following link is provided by Google to review if the SIS application works with Google Classroom™.

See https://edu.google.com/products/classroom/apps/?modal_active=none&story-card_activeEl=connect-with-school-systems for more information