Creating Quick Pullout/Breakout Classes at Rostered Districts: Clever, ClassLink, and Edlink

Creating Quick Pullout/Breakout Classes at Rostered Districts: Clever, ClassLink, and Edlink

To create pullout or breakout classes, your organization must be actively sharing teacher and student account data with Sirius Online through Clever, ClassLInk or Edlink —or must have successfully shared this data in the past.

  1. Initial Setup Requirement: To sync student accounts for the first time, each student must be linked to at least one active class and teacher in your roster data.

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Many districts have already completed this step!

  1. New to Rostering for Sirius This Fall: If you are just getting started, you will need to assign all participating pullout or breakout students to at least one master class. This ensures they are provisioned correctly in Sirius and can be rostered using the new method.
Watch the Administrator or Teacher video—whichever matches your role—for a quick overview of how to create pullout classes.

Administrator Video


Teacher Video


Self-Registered Class Creation for Rostered Districts

Administrators and teachers in districts using Clever, ClassLink, or Edlink will be able to manually create session-based pullout or breakout classes within Sirius Online. These classes are built on existing rostered student accounts and offer flexible support for specialized instruction.

This feature marks a major advancement—enabling schools and districts to quickly set up and manage accelerated instruction groups or other targeted learning sessions with ease. Classes can be created on demand and maintained for any desired duration, giving educators greater control over instructional planning and student support.

  1. Available to Automated Rostered Districts Only: Districts that share rosters via Clever, ClassLink, or Edlink will gain access to a new feature allowing the creation of self-registered classes—ideal for summer programs, pullout groups, breakout sessions, Accelerated Learning sections, and more.
  1. Requires Rostered Users & single sign-on (SSO): Teacher and student access will continue through existing SSO providers. Only users who are rostered and shared via the district’s rostering service can be included in these self-registered classes.
  1. Supplemental to Existing Rosters: This feature is in addition to the formal rosters, classes, and sections already synced from the district’s Student Information System (SIS). It provides added flexibility without disrupting existing data flows.

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District administrators can create pullout classes for students assigned to a single school within the district.
At this time, Sirius does not support cross-school class creation—meaning classes that include students from multiple schools cannot be built using standard rostered data.
For these multi-school scenarios, such as summer programs or district-wide breakout sessions, please use a self-registration instance, which is commonly used for flexible scheduling outside the regular academic calendar.

Other Considerations

  1. Similar to self-registration model used in certain districts, administrators and teachers can create classes using only pre-existing students already present in the district’s shared data.
  2. New students or teachers cannot be added manually. Only users included in the data received from Clever, ClassLink, or Edlink are eligible for inclusion.

Class Management Capabilities for Admins and Teachers

Admins and teachers have the ability to create and edit the following class details:

  1. Class Name
  2. Start Date
  3. End Date
  4. Associated School Building (if multiple campuses are available)
  5. Linked Programs (as currently supported)

Additionally, co-teachers in rostered districts can continue to use Self-Registration to join and support classes. This includes the ability to participate in multiple classes as needed.

Districts have consistently requested the ability to create flexible instructional groups—such as pullout or breakout classes—across multiple schools. With this new feature, Sirius empowers districts to deliver targeted learning experiences to students who need them most, without being limited by formal class schedules or standard rostering protocols through Clever, ClassLink, or Edlink.

This enhancement streamlines support for accelerated instruction, enrichment programs, and other specialized engagements—making it faster and easier to respond to evolving student needs.

Creating Pullout/Breakout Classes in Rostered Districts

Administrators and teachers in districts using Clever, ClassLink, or Edlink can easily create non-SIS-based classes—such as pullout or breakout sessions. These flexible class creation options allow educators to support specialized instruction outside of standard SIS rosters, enabling quick setup for summer programs, intervention groups, or accelerated learning sections.

District and School Administrators

District administrators have the ability to create classes across any school within their district using Sirius. School administrators and teachers, however, are limited to creating classes and adding students only from their assigned schools.
 
  1. Log in to Sirius Online and click the Users tab.
  2. Search for the teacher who will serve as the ‘Primary Teacher’ of your new class or pullout. Be sure to use the header filters to quickly locate a specific teacher.


  1. Once you locate the teacher for whom you will add a class, click the View button.
  2. On the Teacher profile screen, click +Add/Join Class at the bottom.



  1. Enter a Class Name, along with the Start Date and End Date. To ensure teachers have time to finalize grades and wrap up instructional tasks, it's recommended to set the End Date a few weeks after the last scheduled day of class.

  1. Once your new class is created, it will appear in your Teacher Profile. To begin adding students from your district’s shared roster (via Clever, ClassLink, or Edlink), click the View button next to the newly added class.

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Administrators can only add currently shared students in your rostered data. They cannot self-register students outside of the rostered method.

  1. Click the +Add Existing Student button.

  1. When you locate the student you would like to add, click the Add button.


  1. Success! The student has been added to your class. Repeat the same process for each additional student who should be included. To verify that all students have been successfully added, navigate to the Roster Screen and review your class list.

Teachers

Teachers can create their own classes by following a process similar to the one used by administrators.

  1. On the teacher’s dashboard—where primary class rosters from Clever, ClassLink, and Edlink are displayed—teachers can initiate a pullout or breakout session by clicking +Add/Join Class.


  1. Enter Class Details: Provide the following information to set up your new class.

    1. Class Name: Follow your district’s naming conventions, especially for specialized sessions like Accelerated Instruction pullouts or breakouts.
    2. Start Date: It is recommended to set the start date slightly before students begin using the course to allow for setup and early access.
    3. End Date: Choose an end date that extends at least two weeks beyond the final day of student activity. This gives teachers time to complete grading and evaluations.
    4. School Selection: If you are affiliated with multiple schools, use the Drop-down Menu to select the appropriate school for the new class.


  1. After creating the class, click +Add Existing Student to begin adding students.
  2. Use the search function to locate and add each student who should be included.
  3. Review the Roster Screen to confirm that all intended students have been successfully added.

Notes
If a co-teacher is not listed in your district or school data, they can still join the class using the Self-Registration feature.