FastBridge Onboarding Portal
Getting Started with FastBridge
We are excited that you have chosen the FastBridge system to support your district’s Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS). We have created this portal to help you get FastBridge up and running in your district quickly and efficiently.
The graphic below outlines the complete onboarding process. The highlighted steps indicate information our onboarding team will need to receive from you in order to set up your account.
The FastBridge Onboarding Process
FastBridge receives signed purchase order.
Complete Onboarding Survey.
The Customer Success team sends you detailed onboarding information. Data Services creates your account and sends administrative login information.
Decide your rostering method and provide your student roster.
Data Services team imports your roster data and completes setup.
System Management Workshop provided for site administrator and district leaders.
Complete Onboarding Survey
Have the person primarily responsible for FastBridge onboarding answer these questions so we can set up your account.
Helpful Hints When Answering the Setup Questions
District and School Information
The information provided will be used to create your district’s program. Please access your Student Information System (SIS) and list the name of your district and each school as titled in your system. We will use this list to ensure the district and school names entered in FastBridge match the names in your SIS. Please list the grade levels associated with each building, low to high.
Screening Periods
FastBridge defaults to three screening periods from which the norms and benchmarks are derived. You can add two additional periods, but you will need to designate one of the core (fall, winter and spring) benchmarks for your additional screenings. Assessment windows default to four weeks in length, but the district can also decide to use a different duration for the benchmark and norms data collection window.
Learn More About All of the Assessments Available in FastBridge: Download the List
Understanding FastBridge User Roles
Key District-Level Access Administrators
The Master Account Administrator and District Manager roles have the ability to change all administrative settings. They will make decisions about when screening periods start and end, which benchmarks to use and what assessments to give. Most importantly, they will be responsible for managing staff accounts and uploading rosters. Only one Master Account Administrator can be set-up. We recommend limiting access to District Manager accounts to just one or two people.
Learn more about FastBridge administrative and school user roles.
Provide Your Student Roster
Decide how you are going to share your student roster with FastBridge.
There are two pathways to roster in FastBridge.
The roster is created from scratch by the district, and then is imported into FastBridge.
Choose an approved 3rd party client to integrate rosters with FastBridge.
Manual Import
Have your District Manager format and upload your Student Roster. Please use our template to prepare your roster. Take a look at this guide for instructions on how to use the template.
This will likely be the most time-consuming step for your team to complete. It is important to use the same names on the student roster for your district and schools as you listed in the Onboarding Setup Questions form. Student and Classroom User/Teacher accounts are created through the roster upload process. Teachers will not have access to FastBridge until the roster has been successfully imported.
FastBridge will import your first roster during the onboarding process.
Automation - 3 Options
- Automated Batch Import (ABI)
If you’d like to set up an ABI using SFTP for rosters, follow these steps. - Automated Import with Single Sign-on (SSO)
We securely sync with your SIS to import your student roster to FastBridge and keep it up-to-date. Once you’re up and running with FastBridge, all your users will be able to access FastBridge using SSO. For more information about Clever, click here.
We support OneRoster v1.1 API. Learn about setting up a OneRoster integration. - Single Sign-on (SSO) — SAML
FastBridge supports SAML v2.0 as an SSO method. Download the data sheet.
Prepare your IT team
Share this Technical Readiness Data Sheet with your district IT and technical staff to ensure your network and technology is prepared for the FastBridge application.
Step 3: Personalized Training And Services To Take You Further
The final step of the onboarding process is a System Management Workshop (SMW), designed for site administrators and district leaders supporting FastBridge onboarding. This training is held after rostering is complete and will be scheduled upon learning your rostering methodology. This 3-hour session is designed to provide new system administrators support in customizing the FastBridge system for their educators and students.
After onboarding is complete, FastBridge Essentials, in-product assessment training and certification, and FASTflix will support educators’ ongoing use of FastBridge. Learn more about additional FastBridge training through your sales representative or through reviewing our Learning and Development webpage.