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Document Purpose

Provide a resource to community members for understanding the educational use cases that underpin Ed-Fi SIS API v3 certification.  

Audience

Agencies, vendors, local education agency collaboratives, and implementation partners 

 

Background and Description

Ed-Fi certification represents an agreement between agency customers and vendor providers. This agreement comprises:

• a scope of data

,

• API specifications

, definitions of required/optional/conditional aspects of the data,

• compatibility with current data standard and technology suite versions

,

• additional normative requirements on system interaction

,

• adherence to general best practices

, and importantly,

• their connection to solving for high value use cases the community has defined and prioritized together.  

 The resulting certification requirements are intended to form a clear, well-defined, and executable ask of vendors by agencies. For vendors, certification defines capabilities to build into their products for replicable and high-quality integrations across the K12 community and ecosystem. 

Feedback and Participation

Your feedback and suggestions for continual improvement on these priority use cases are welcomed and needed. There are several channels open to you to lend your perspective:   

• Comment on this page in TechDocs with a mention to Jeff Putnam 
• convey Convey your feedback via email or Slack to Jeff.putnam@ed-fi.org 
• Schedule a meeting with the vendor team
• Discuss in our vendor convenings and governance opportunities, such as the Summit, Technical Congress, Technical Advisory Group, etc. 

Common Resources

Many of the API resources are required as prerequisites for all of the following use cases.

Calendar

Use Case 1: 

Use Case 2: 

Student Equity

Chronic Absenteeism

Multiple Measures of Assessment

College, Career, and Military Readiness

Early Warning System Supports

Cohort

Appendix: Summary of use cases