Overview

The Children Learning Institute (CLI) Engage platform is a place where educators and families can find early learning resources. KIPP Texas utilizes CLI Engage for student progress monitoring (CIRCLE Assessment).

Data Structure

• Community/District - KIPP Texas Public Schools
• School - All the individual schools in KIPP Texas Public Schools
• Class - All the individual classes in a school
• Students - All the students rostered to a teacher’s assigned class

Targeted Schools and Grade Levels

A districtwide application for students in grades Pre-Kindergarten 3 and 4.

• PK - Circle Progress Monitoring System 

Licensing

Circle is free for Texas Public Kindergarten.

Rostering

Rostering is managed via a nightly automatic import between Skyward and CLI Engage. It is implemented prior to the start of a testing wave: BOY, MOY, and EOY. The rostering is based on the roster data in Skyward for PK sections (Circle). Any roster changes in Skyward that will need to be reflected in CLI Engage during a testing wave will be managed during the nightly automated syncing between CLI Engage and Skyward. Please expect 24 to 48 hours for changes to be reflected in CLI Engage. 

User Access 

Automatic Rostering will:

• create new students
• update existing students
• create a user account and grant access to a new teacher (primary teacher/teacher of record)
• deactivate a user account for a teacher who is not assigned to a section and course for the following courses: PK101-AM, PK101-PM, and PK102.

For district users needing access, please submit information to Director of Foundational Literacy or a request to the IT Applications team with approval from the Director of Foundational Literacy. The Director of Foundational Literacy or the IT Applications team will provide this information to CLI Engage to create a user account and grant access. Only CLI Engage support can grant or remove accounts community district users/specialists accounts.

For regional and school users needing access, please submit a request to the IT Applications team with approval from the Early Literacy Director.

CLI Engage has several different user roles. A user can only have one role associated with their school account.  If there is a teacher who needs to serve as a School Specialist, make sure they do not have any assigned rosters in Skyward, or else there will be roster issues.

Login

For users to login to CLI Engage, they have two options:

1. Login to the KIPP Texas Clever portal and click on the CLI Engage tile located under Programs with Separate Logins.
1. Click on the Log in with Google. Do Not use Log in with Clever. This option is not implemented for this application. 
2. Enter your KIPP Texas Public Schools Google credentials. Accounts created with a personal Gmail will be disabled. Tiles are sorted in alphabetical order by application name.

2. Click on the link here: https://cliengage.org/static/signin, click on Login with Google, and enter your KIPP Texas Public Schools Google credentials.

Need support

• For rostering or access issues, please submit a ticket to IT Applications
• For user registration email issues:
  • Reference this article, if you don't see the invitation email in your Outlook inbox but should have one. 
  • Reference this site, if you recover the invitation email from CLI Engage but the email invitation has expired.

Please do not contact CLI Engage support directly requesting user access. Any requests made by a user not identified as the administrator on record will be confirmed with the administrator on record by CLI Engage support.  

CLI Engage Knowledgebase

CLI Engage How-To Guides 

Circle Progress Monitoring User Guide 

TPRI User Guide