Get started with student information system (SIS) register import

This article is for administrators and teachers.

You can import class registers from your student information system (SIS) into Google Classroom. Classes are automatically created in Google Classroom based on your SIS data.

You can also let teachers import SIS registers and export marks to eligible SIS by connecting Classroom to your SIS.

Eligibility

You can access the SIS register import through:

Clever: Available to K-12 districts in the US that have a Google Workspace for Education Plus or G Suite Enterprise for Education subscription. Learn how to set up SIS register import through Clever.

Requirements:

To complete a SIS register import into Google Classroom:

All students and teachers in a district must have Google Workspace for Education Plus or G Suite Enterprise for Education licences.
- If your district only covers staff licences, you must purchase licences for your students as well.
Admins must use Google email addresses for teachers and students. SIS register import matches users based on Google email addresses. To import your register into Google Classroom, you must sync student and teacher email addresses to your SIS register import provider.

FAQs

How does SIS register sync work?

The SIS register sync feature:

Creates Google Classroom classes.
Manages teacher and student associations in classes based on their section assignments from the SIS.
Adds co-teachers to classes.
Updates primary teacher information

In addition:

Teachers can accept or decline the SIS-synced classes.
Teachers can change the name of the class without an impact on the sync.
The sync won't override changes that a teacher makes manually.

Important: The app doesn't:

Modify or delete current classes in Google Classroom
Provide Google Accounts for students or teachers

If teachers have already created classes in Google Classroom, can they continue to use them?

Yes. When registers are imported, manually created classes in Classroom aren't modified. Teachers can accept or decline any SIS-imported classes.

What are classes created in Google Classroom called?

Classes created by register import are determined by the 'Section name' field in the SIS. This field is usually a combination of the class name, teacher and period.

If teachers update their class names, the registers remain synced.

How do you match students and teachers between Google Classroom and the SIS?

Admins must use Google email addresses for teachers and students. SIS register import matches users based on their Google email addresses.

What happens when teachers modify SIS-synced class registers in Google Classroom?

In Google Classroom, teachers can manually add or remove students and co-teachers from SIS-synced class registers. The manual changes remain in Google Classroom, but won't be written back to the SIS.

If a student transfers from one class to another, will their work be lost?

No. Student work remains in the class folder in Google Drive.

Student marks are recovered when the student is added back to the class.

How are students and teachers matched in Classroom with SIS provider?

Google Classroom registering matches users between the SIS register provider, Clever and Google-based accounts on Google emails.

The application requires all Classroom users to fill in the email fields in the SIS register with their Google email addresses.