The best practices documentation for the Enrollment domain in the ticket has been shared with the Ed-Fi Alliance team members for their review and feedback lately. I will reiterate it with the certification team members as suggested in your recommendation #2.

I have also updated the School Calendar Domain Best Practices UDM reference page with the changes in your recommendation #3.

Since the TimeType descriptor related work as requested for Data Standard team consideration is being tracked in another ticket, , I consider the ticket to be completed.

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1. The soon-to-be-published Best Practice document for Enrollment identifies the StudentSchoolAssociation.Calendar reference as being a MUST use, meaning that the intended use of the entity requires it to be used.

2. Recommend forwarding the Best Practice document for Enrollment to the certification team to consider incorporation of MUST have attributes into the SIS certification process.

3. Recommend the following edits to the Calendar Domain Best Practices:

   • Add to the bottom of the section Sessions, Grading Periods, Calendars, and Calendar Dates:
     In order to provide a consistent granular specification of every student’s calendar, during enrollment the StudentSchoolAssociation.Calendar reference MUST be populated, whether the School has single or multiple calendars.

   • Replace the second bullet under section Multiple Calendars:
     When using individual (or small group) calendars, it is RECOMMENDED that the StudentSchoolAssociation.Calendar reference for a student be populated with the unique, individualized calendar, and not a school or grade level calendar. Such calendars SHOULD have a Calendar.CalendarType set to an appropriate descriptor value (e.g., "Student Specific" or "IEP") to ensure clarity on the scope and avoid confusion with a school or grade-level calendar.
      

A new epic, TimeType Descriptor, created to have the comprehensive analysis of the second recommendation listed in the description. Please follow the related updates by that ticket, .

will create a separate ticket to for a comprehensive analysis of the current usage of time type data elements and their usage, then come up with a recommendation with a consideration if the requested change is a breaking change.

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Calendar is currently an optional and not a required element.

Calendar is currently not part of the StudentSchoolAssociation certification scenario -
https://edfi.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EDFICERT/pages/23701002/v5+Student+Enrollment+StudentSchoolAssociation+Scenarios