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
compatibility with current data standard and technology suite versions
additional normative requirements on system interaction
adherence to general best practices
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 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

The following is a list of API resources that are common to most if not all of the following use cases. They are also listed in-line on the specific use case, but have been broken out here for clarity.

Family Engagement

These use cases apply to the Family Engagement community priority.

Student Equity

These use cases apply to the Student Equity community priority

Chronic Absenteeism

These use cases apply to the Chronic Absenteeism community priority.

Multiple Measures of Assessment

These use cases apply to the Multiple Measures of Assessment community priority.

College, Career, and Military Readiness

These use cases apply to the CCMR community priority.

Early Warning System Supports

These use cases apply to the Early Warning community priority.

Cohort

These use cases support the Cohort community priority.

Appendix: Summary of use cases

This is a summary list of all use cases referenced in this document.

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