Ed-Fi 142 - Publishing Your First Set of Data

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: 

  • Ed-Fi 101 - Welcome to Ed-Fi

  • Ed-Fi 102 - The Ed-Fi Technology Suite

  • Ed-Fi 141 – Data Engineering Lifecycle

• Learning Delivery Mode: Self-Guided Course (Online)

  • Text

• Registration Options: Online

• Link to online course

Course Overview

Description

This course is 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 you utilize one to verify that data has landed in the ODS. 

Who Should Enroll

• Students who are enrolled in the Analytics Engineering Fundamentals Pathway 

Course Outcome

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

• Comfortably move between a SIS’s Ed-Fi module, Ed-Fi’s public Swagger, and the Ed-Fi SIS certification requirements drawing connections between each one 

• Create vendors and applications in the Admin App as a means of generating Ed-Fi API credentials for a SIS 

• Sync data to the Schools resource

• Run an API call in a Jupyter Notebook to confirm data is in the ODS 

Learning Objectives

The learning objectives for this course are: 

• Understand how API endpoints relate to each other through associations and references 

• Understand 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 arrived 

Course Modules

• Introduction

• Ed-Fi API

• Ed-Fi Admin App

• SIS Configuration

• Exploring the Ed-Fi API

• Wrap Up