DRAFT and IN PROGRESS
The SIG had 3 goals:
Define pain points that Managed Providers experience in implementing Ed-Fi technology and making it available to community members as productized offerings.
Provide input into and feedback on the Alliance’s products and roadmap especially as it relates to deployment, automation, security, management, and other priority concerns.
Discuss ideas and opportunities to unblock managed providers in ways that help them scale their offerings.
These were the outcomes of the SIG on these questions:
1.) Identify and prioritize primary use cases for LMS data within the Ed-Fi community
The overall advice of the SIG was to prioritize the use case of recent student engagement, based on assignment completion. This represents a change from the prior focus on attendance, which had arisen under the impacts of the COVID pandemic.
The SIG observed that assignments are more normalized across LMS systems and K12 operational processes and so there is a scale opportunity to leverage these. Further, activity data is inherently platform-specific, messy, and large in volume, so creates complexity and scale issues. This was the reasoning behind a focus on assignment data first.
2.) Managed Service Providers Need Support for Automation Technology and Approaches to Reach Scale
The main advice was to follow the guidance under goal #1: focus on student engagement as evidenced by assignment completion. The SIG offered some existing field work examples to turn to as examples of visualizations the Alliance Starter Kit could focus on.
3.) Ed-Fi Can Improve on Security Outreach and Coordination with MSP Community
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