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Course Information

  • Course Title: Publishing Your First Set of Data
  • Course Code: 142
  • Tracks: Technical Track
  • Series: Fundamentals of the Ed-Fi Solution (100 Series)
  • Course Prerequisites: 
  • Learning Delivery Mode: Self-Guided Course (Online)
  • Time to Complete: TBD minutes
  • Registration Options: Online
  • Link to online course

Course Overview

Description

This course comes after the deployment of the Ed-Fi platform and encompasses everything a LEA technical FTE needs to know to push an initial payload of data to their Ed-Fi APIis focused on the steps necessary to sync initial data between a student information system and an Ed-Fi ODS/API Platform. This course will also introduce the idea of a Jupyter Notebook as a method of exploring an Ed-Fi API and have the student you utilize one to verify that data has landed in their the ODS. 

Who Should Enroll

FTE data folks in an education organization
  • Students who are enrolled in the Analytics Engineering Fundamentals
Pathway
  • Pathway 

Course Outcome

By the end of this course, Academy students will be able to: 

  • Comfortably move between their SIS's a SIS’s Ed-Fi module, Ed-Fi's Fi’s public Swagger, and the Ed-Fi SIS certification requirements drawing connections between each oneone 
  • Create vendors and applications in the Admin App as a means of generating Ed-Fi API credentials for their SIS
  • Map their descriptors in the SIS (if applicable)
  • Push data to their /schools endpointa SIS 
  • Sync data to the Schools resource
  • Run an API call in a Jupyter Notebook to confirm data is in their ODSthe ODS 

Learning Objectives

The learning objectives for this course are: 

  • Understand how API endpoints relate to each other through associations and referencereferences 
  • Understand descriptor mapping, the various approaches, and be able to identify which one is right for themComfortably push data from their SIS to their namespaces, descriptors, and claim sets, and their role in Ed-Fi
  • Comfortably sync data from a SIS to an Ed-Fi API and verify it has arrivedarrived 

Course Modules

  • Introduction
  • Ed-Fi API
  • Ed-Fi Admin App
  • SIS Configuration
  • Exploring the Ed-Fi API
  • Wrap Up