Ed-Fi 1.1 Request for Comment Webinar 1 Adam Miller - Michael & Susan Dell Foundation Audio lines are muted during the presentation Please use the chat box to type your questions

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The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation was established in 1999 to help improve the lives of children in need around the world. The Ed-Fi initiative supports children's access to quality education in public schools, one of the foundation’s key objectives.Michael & Susan Dell Foundation Ed-Fi is based on input from state and local education agencies and vendors. Ed-Fi is governed by foundation representatives working with an advisory council of education agency representatives from states that opt to implement the standard. The Ed-Fi standard is vendor-neutral and does not require any specific vendor’s hardware or software.

RFC Goals Solicit feedback to keep Ed-Fi useful and easy to adopt Discover potential errors, problems, or compatibility issues Provide the public portal to capture feedback at Most importantly, tell us missing Ed-Fi data elements that you need.

Contributor helpful attributes In a technical role Dealing with student data Familiar with: –XML –Data dictionaries –Database schemas –ETL processes © 2011 Michael & Susan Dell Foundation 5

6 Ed-Fi Web site provides free licensing

News Updates RFC period officially launched from now until September 27 th last call for changes Ed-Fi 1.1 RFC schema posted on technical documentation sectionwww.ed-fi.org Most importantly, tell us missing Ed-Fi data elements that you need.

RFC Conference Schedule August 1 st to September 26 th 8/ pm Central 8/ pm Central 8/ pm Central 9/ pm Central 9/ pm Central 9/27 - RFC phase wrap up - Last call for changes 9/30 - RFC phase lockdown TBD Ed-Fi Advisory Council meeting to confirm proposed changes TBD Ed-Fi v1.1 Release Announcement

What is the Ed-Fi solution? CEDS-aligned toolkit for K-12 student data Four main parts –Metrics Detailed documentation for student performance metrics –XML schema Domain types, interchanges and extensions –Dashboards Free source code for quality student level dashboards –ETL code Moving data between an ODS and a dashboard database © 2011 Michael & Susan Dell Foundation 9

Ed-Fi aligned to CEDS © 2011 Michael & Susan Dell Foundation 10

Ed-Fi in the CEDS alignment tool © 2011 Michael & Susan Dell Foundation 11

Ed-Fi in a typical environment © 2011 Michael & Susan Dell Foundation 12

Ed-Fi Discussion Forum © 2011 Michael & Susan Dell Foundation 13

Github repository for Ed-Fi licensees © 2011 Michael & Susan Dell Foundation 14

Ed-Fi source code in Visual Studio 2010 © 2011 Michael & Susan Dell Foundation 15

Running dashboards on local desktop © 2011 Michael & Susan Dell Foundation 16

Next Steps 1.Expect an invite for the next Web conference. 2.Please invite your peers to these webinars! 3.Don’t be shy to ask questions here or through the Ed-Fi discussion portal.Ed-Fi discussion portal