TAG Meeting 2015-12-02
- Eric Jansson (inactive account)
Owned by Eric Jansson (inactive account)
Participants
Erik Gomez
Josh Allen
Josh Klein
Don Dailey
Ron Engels (Denver PS, guest)
Mark Reichert
Mark Walls
Chris Moffat
Eric Jansson
The agenda included 2 topics:
Roster APIs
The TAG reviewed the proposed Roster API that had been sent out prior to the meeting. the review, the following items came up:
- A general need for dates for entry and exit of students and staff to sections and schools. These were seen as useful for use cases where applications wanted to account for a student or staff who had just joined or moved sections. Examples raised included:
- Ability to provision past assessments for a student who recently joined a section
- Ability to track which teachers taught a student in the past year, so the correct teacher name can put on a report card but all teachers tracked.
- Another concern raised was how composite APIs might be affected when we have multi-year support in the ODS.
- Another suggestion was making sure that the roster API could provide indications if the section was a "homeroom" section. This is important for use cases like meal assignments and other operational scenarios.
- The TAG discussed that the API would use internal GUIDs, but also use natural keys when there was a single ones. The idea was that using natural keys composed of multiple elements results in an overly-complex API. There was general support for this direction.
SIS Product certification and product certification overall
- One input was that certifications should be automated this over time, with the long-term goal of being part of a continuous integration process.
- The concern about how to make sure that Ed-Fi certification was adopted and the field certifications were additive. One piece of input was to design the automated tooling such that it can be used - or serve as infrastructure - for field certifications.
Items distributed before the meeting: