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 v3.3 documentation is available online here.
The Ed-Fi ODS / API v3.2 documentation is available online here.
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.
Source Code Access
Admin App source code is not publicly distributed at this time, so if you require access, please e-mail info@ed-fi.org with your GitHub user ID.