Using Clema: articles for IR teams

Setup, SSO, peer groups, and prompt patterns for Clema, with walkthroughs of how real IR and IE offices use it day to day.

Clema News and Updates: What's New for IR and IE Teams

A general news and updates index for Clema covering product launches, whitepapers, IR benchmark releases, conference appearances, and company news relevant to IR and IE teams in higher ed.

Clema Research Team · 4 mins read

How a Large IR Team Uses Clema to Manage Breadth Across Schools

How a large IR team (8+ staff) uses Clema's analytics, peer benchmarking, and predictive analytics to scale analyses across schools instead of pulling data one school at a time.

Clema Research Team · 5 mins read

How an IE Director Uses Clema to Bridge the Dashboard-vs-Email Gap

How an IE director uses Clema to keep stakeholders out of the email queue and let them ask dashboards in plain English, anchored in the whitepaper finding on dashboard adoption.

Clema Research Team · 5 mins read

How an Office of One Uses Clema During IPEDS Peak Season

How a one-person IR office uses Clema to handle IPEDS pulls and ad-hoc dean requests in parallel during peak season, when capacity utilization hits 90%.

Clema Research Team · 5 mins read

How to Ask an IPEDS Question in Clema

A procedural guide for asking IPEDS questions in Clema: the prompt structure, the cohort and year disambiguation, the source check, and four worked examples.

Clema Research Team · 5 mins read

How to Build a Peer Group in Clema

A procedural guide for building a peer group in Clema by Carnegie class, control, region, or designation, and pulling the same metric for each peer in one conversation.

Clema Research Team · 5 mins read

How to Set Up SSO With Clema (SAML and OAuth)

A procedural walkthrough for configuring SSO with Clema using SAML 2.0 or OAuth 2.0, including metadata exchange, attribute mapping, MFA, and the test login that confirms it works.

Clema Research Team · 5 mins read

Clema Onboarding: A Four-Week Setup Checklist

A week-by-week onboarding checklist for Clema: who does what, what gets signed, what gets connected, and what success looks like at each phase over 2 to 4 weeks.

Clema Research Team · 6 mins read

Get Started With IPEDS in Plain English

A quick start for querying IPEDS in plain English with Clema: enrollment, graduation rates, peer comparison, finance, and faculty figures, with the federal source on every answer.

Clema Research Team · 5 mins read

First Five Questions to Ask Clema

Five plain-English questions to ask Clema in the first session, what each one demonstrates, and how to interpret the sourced answer.

Clema Research Team · 5 mins read