This section outlines a few recommended next steps following a successful installation.
Explore Admin App Features
After installation, consider exploring the Admin App itself:
Review and edit education organizations. This allows you to set up district and school information specific to your organization. If you installed the Admin App for a new, empty ODS / API, this provides you with an easy setup. If your Admin App is pointing to an existing ODS / API, you can confirm that the education organization information is as you expect.
Review Ed-Fi Descriptors. Ed-Fi technology allows you to configure value lists (i.e., code sets) specific to your context using Ed-Fi Descriptors. You can review Descriptors in the Admin App to make sure the as-shipped ODS / API contains values appropriate for your environment.
Add client systems. Data moves in and out of the ODS / API from client systems such as a student information system, assessment system, rostering system, and so forth. If your Admin App is connected to a new instance of the ODS / API, you'll need to set up client systems and provide those system administrators with credentials to get data into your new ODS / API. If your Admin App is connected to an existing instance, you can verify that the vendors and applications are set up as you expect.
Add learning standards. The Ed-Fi Alliance and Certica Solutions partnered to offer the Academic Benchmarks system of learning standards mappings available through the Ed-Fi Operational Data Store (Ed-Fi ODS/API). This partnership will make Academic Benchmarks’ digitized learning standards readily available to education agencies and vendors. The Admin App has built-in synchronization to populate an ODS / API directly from Certica AB. The license is free, and can be obtained online by visiting this link.
If you're new to the Ed-Fi ODS / API — or even if you're upgrading from a previous version in tandem with installing the Admin App — the product documentation for your solution has additional information you'll find useful:
The Ed-Fi ODS / API v2.5 documentation is available online here.
The Platform Developers' Guide and API Client Developers' Guide are essential reading for platform hosts.