Education Deployment Setup with Roster Sync

Adobe Admin Console > Settings > Create Directory

Enter a name for the directory, an internal name, not shared publicly and select Federated Directory.

Follow Azure/Entra, Google, or SAML steps to configure the federated directory with your identity provider.

• Google Federated Directory Setup
• Microsoft Azure Federated Directory Setup
• SAML Federated Directory Setup

On the confirmation screen, turn off auto account creation. In this setup, users are created and managed via sync.

Once the directory screen is completed, claim domains using a Microsoft Global Admin Account or a Google Super Admin; this will list all available Domain/s in your identity provider console. If your organization is not using Azure/Entra or Google, you can validate domain ownership by creating a DNS text record with your domain registrar.

Once you have installed the App in Clever or Classlink, configure your sharing rules in your roster tool. If you enable a sync without any users configured the following step will fail.

For full details of setting up Roster sync visit our Roster Sync detailed guide.

Enable SSO from Roster Portal

To support SSO from your portal, add a secondary idp for your provider.

Adobe Admin Console > Settings > Directory > Authentication > Add new ipd > Education Portal SSO >  Select Clever or Classlink and accept the default options.

This will enable users to click on the app tile in your portal to log in. This is also a critical step for you to complete roster sync setup as it allows you as an admin to share roster from portal to Adobe.

Adobe Admin Console > Settings > Identity settings > Roster Sync > Add sync. 

Select your Roster provider and follow the guided steps. The roster sync will automatically place users in user groups based on your selected grouping rule.