v3 Education Organization Calendar > Sessions

The Education Organization Calendar interchange carries school calendar information. It can be used to exchange school calendar data, including instructional days, sessions, and grading periods.

The Session entity represents the prescribed span of time when an education institution is open, instruction is provided and students are under the direction and guidance of teachers and/or education institution administration. A session may be interrupted by one or more vacations.

Prerequisites

School
GradingPeriod

Scenarios

Create a Fall Semester Session which references the first and second six week grading periods for Grand Bend Elementary School
Create a Fall Semester Session which references the first and second six week grading periods for Grand Bend High School
Update the End Date and totalInstructionalDays on the newly added Session for Grand Bend Elementary School
Update the End Date and totalInstructionalDays on the newly added Session for Grand Bend High School

Resource	Property Name	Is Collection	Data Type	Required / Optional	Scenario 1 POST	Scenario 2 POST	Scenario 3 PUT	Scenario 4 PUT
Sessions	schoolReference	FA:SE	schoolReference	REQUIRED
schoolReference	schoolId	FALSE	Integer	REQUIRED	255901107	255901001	255901107	255901001
Sessions	schoolYearTypeReference	FALSE	schoolYearTypeReference	REQUIRED
schoolYearTypeReference	schoolYear	FALSE	Integer	REQUIRED	[Current School Year]	[Current School Year]	[Current School Year]	[Current School Year]
Sessions	termDescriptor	FALSE	string	REQUIRED	Fall Semester	Fall Semester	Fall Semester	Fall Semester
Sessions	sessionName	FALSE	string	REQUIRED	2016-2017 Fall Semester	2016-2017 Fall Semester	2016-2017 Fall Semester	2016-2017 Fall Semester
Sessions	beginDate	FALSE	date	REQUIRED	[Current School Year]-08-23	[Current School Year]-08-23	[Current School Year]-08-23	[Current School Year]-08-23
Sessions	endDate	FALSE	date	REQUIRED	[Current School Year]-12-15	[Current School Year]-12-15	[Current School Year]-12-16	[Current School Year]-12-16
Sessions	totalInstructionalDays	FALSE	Integer	REQUIRED	[System calculated value \| 88]	[System calculated value \| 88]	[Previous system calculated value + 1 \| 89]	[Previous system calculated value + 1 \| 89]
Sessions	gradingPeriods	TRUE	sessionGradingPeriod[]	REQUIRED	See GradingPeriodReference elements below - note there are 2 grading period references for the Fall Semester Session.
sessionGradingPeriods	gradingPeriodReference	FALSE	gradingPeriodReference	REQUIRED
gradingPeriodReference	schoolId	FALSE	integer	REQUIRED	255901107	255901001	255901107	255901001
gradingPeriodReference	gradingPeriodDescriptor	FALSE	string	REQUIRED	First Six Weeks	First Six Weeks	First Six Weeks	First Six Weeks
gradingPeriodReference	periodSequence	FALSE	integer	REQUIRED	1	1	1	1
gradingPeriodReference	schoolYear	FALSE	Integer	REQUIRED	[Current School Year]	[Current School Year]	[Current School Year]	[Current School Year]
gradingPeriodReference	schoolId	FALSE	integer	REQUIRED	255901107	255901001	255901107	255901001
gradingPeriodReference	gradingPeriodDescriptor	FALSE	string	REQUIRED	Second Six Weeks	Second Six Weeks	Second Six Weeks	Second Six Weeks
gradingPeriodReference	periodSequence	FALSE	integer	REQUIRED	2	2	2	2
gradingPeriodReference	schoolYear	FALSE	Integer	REQUIRED	[Current School Year]	[Current School Year]	[Current School Year]	[Current School Year]
Sessions	academicWeeks	TRUE	sessionAcademicWeek[]	OPTIONAL	N/A
sessionAcademicWeeks	academicWeekReference	FALSE	academicWeekReference	OPTIONAL
academicWeekReference	schoolId	FALSE	integer	OPTIONAL
academicWeekReference	weekIdentifier	FALSE	string	OPTIONAL