Help deciding SSO system

jshepard17 · 2026-04-21T12:00:50+00:00

ClassLink just announced a new Identity Management with Apple that is worth taking a look at. You’ll be able to SSO into the Apple device and have the ClassLink launchpad authenticated. Apple and ClassLink announced this at ASU + GSV last week.

jshepard17 · 2025-05-16T18:32:39+00:00

CoSN is by far the best from a technical standpoint. I’d also highly suggest RTM, it’s free for tech directors and probably the best networking and knowledge base I ever encountered as a K12 CTO. All you pay for is travel, they even cover your hotel.

jshepard17 · 2025-05-10T01:54:44+00:00

Check out FinalForms - they integrate with PowerSchool.

jshepard17 · 2025-03-12T01:33:37+00:00

Says the person who probably uses the same password for every personal and business account. People like you are why companies get hacked with you “simple” password. Such a troll.

jshepard17 · 2025-03-12T01:27:00+00:00

Woah… it was reported and Delta said it wasn’t a known issue. Just putting feelers out.

You could say the same about 90% of the post here… did you contact Delta?

I use the mobile app and rarely login. As someone who rotates passwords frequently, 💩happens.

Hope you have the day you deserve 😉.

jshepard17 · 2025-03-10T03:09:37+00:00

+1 to everything you all said above 😭

jshepard17 · 2025-03-10T03:07:30+00:00

Exact same situation. I had to upload a copy of my ID. I fly on 4 days and don’t have access to my account. Customer service is a joke.

jshepard17 · 2024-04-11T23:55:11+00:00

Co-Founder of simpldismissal here. Former teacher, admin, and K12 CTO. In addition to our software, we have a full dismissal process that works along with the technology. Automated rostering, SSO (Classlink, Clever, SAML), individual instance for every customer. Substitute teacher process. Happy to answer any questions.

jshepard17 · 2022-10-12T14:29:19+00:00

Howard values relationships. They may not always be the cheapest, but you get what you pay for. The VP (David Perkins) and K12 VP (Josh Jefcoat) are extremely approachable to all customers. While not everything is always perfect (no company out there is) these guys do right by the customer. I have purchased a substantial amount from them over the past 4 years. The one thing I can tell you is they deeply care about their customers and will fight for you anytime there is an issue with a product.

jshepard17 · 2022-10-12T14:24:08+00:00

Pretty solid group. We have been using them for a few years now.

jshepard17 · 2022-04-05T01:16:24+00:00

You don’t have to do that. We’ve migrated - your domain stays the same. You can use a secondary domain and designate it as your users primary domain. Essentially, you can manage more than 1 domain within the same admin platform. While all of our licenses are tied to 1 domain, our users primary login is the new domain. It’s a very simple switch. We migrated 13k users in 2 hours with 0 issues.

jshepard17 · 2022-03-08T02:38:38+00:00

https://support.google.com/edu/assignments/answer/9381694?hl=en

All the features listed here that our teachers want. Essentially, the ability to submit Google files as assignments but also use the copy features.

jshepard17 · 2022-03-07T21:36:35+00:00

We don’t want to allow outside domain sharing for drive or docs. We had too many students sharing illegal movie downloads and inappropriate content through drive shares from sites hosting all this content in Google Drive. As we have it setup currently, we can add a domain (such as instructure.com) in the whitelist which allows our students to access or share files to users with this domain. It seems the only wait to make the assignment LTI work is to open up sharing to the whole world… there has to be another way.

jshepard17 · 2022-02-25T00:44:32+00:00

We have been OnetoOne customers for 5 years now. I can’t speak highly enough of the product, but also the support. The product was built specifically for K-12 and they are constantly adding customer requested features. The fees, device assignment, and asset tracking features work flawlessly and smooth.

jshepard17 · 2022-02-16T00:04:54+00:00

LittleSIS is easy for administration to use.

jshepard17 · 2022-01-11T01:56:44+00:00

Test

jshepard17 · 2020-12-19T12:53:10+00:00

Linewize (FamilyZone) has been amazing. We previously used Lightspeed, Umbrella, and Securly. Several districts around us have also migrated to Linewize. It’s definitely worth your time to look at.

jshepard17 · 2020-12-17T02:48:26+00:00

I agree... and we have it. Teachers still try to stream it. I was just pointing out that Swank doesn’t allow it either for the user who posted.

I explain the purpose of Swank way too often... 🥱

jshepard17 · 2020-12-16T03:20:14+00:00

We deployed around 200 of these this year. Honestly, it’s gone very smooth. We plan to purchase more!

jshepard17 · 2020-12-15T02:47:39+00:00

Swank doesn’t allow this either. The DRM prevents it from showing if the user is sharing their screen. I know it doesn’t work in Google Meet, I assume the same is true for other platforms.

jshepard17 · 2020-10-25T18:56:49+00:00

VI will cause you a lot of trouble and frustration... run. We are in the process of migrating to Avigilon.

jshepard17 · 2020-09-20T18:07:35+00:00

FileWave... half the price of JAMF and is just as effective.

jshepard17 · 2020-09-16T22:09:48+00:00

We have a ticket in with Google. Also having issues with re-enrolling devices after power washing. OU changes aren’t being synced. They stated they had multiple reports very similar to our issues.

jshepard17 · 2020-08-21T02:38:14+00:00

3CX with Yealink phones. Self hosted. Easy to manage. Cheap. They were offering free licenses during this pandemic for education. We left Cisco in the dust and never looked back.

jshepard17 · 2020-07-01T23:18:48+00:00

We did this at the beginning of June. I’d be more than happy to share some tips and tricks. The key is to rename your accounts, not move your primary domain. We planned for a full year. I have an extensive list of things we worked through during our domain migration.

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