Ed-Fi Community Contributions to Ed-Fi Dashboards 1.3

OVERVIEW OF ED-FI COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTIONS

TO ED-FI DASHBOARDS 1.3

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© 2014 Ed-Fi Alliance

The Ed-Fi Alliance was founded as an organization dedicated to empowering educators with real-time, actionable education data on every student in their classrooms, schools, districts or states. With input from the Ed-Fi Community, the Alliance continually updates the Ed-Fi Data Standard and expands the Ed-Fi Implementation Suite of technical components, designed to integrate and organize raw education data and information from a broad range of existing disparate data sources so it can be integrated, analyzed and put to use every day.

OUR STORY: THE ED-FI ALLIANCESTATES

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Enabled by the widely adopted, CEDS aligned Ed-Fi Data Standard, the Ed-Fi Implementation Suite enables interoperability among secure, agency controlled education data systems designed to improve student achievement and teacher satisfaction.

WHAT TECHNOLOGY DOES THE ED-FI ALLIANCE PROVIDE?

Ed-Fi OperationalData Store

Ed-FiDevelopmentTools

Ed-Fi ODS API

Ed-Fi DataDashboard

Technology components of the Ed-Fi Implementation Suite built on the CEDS aligned Ed-Fi Data Standard

COMMUNITY SOURCEDBegin development with technology components that are already developed, incorporate community input and field testing and are freely available to the ed tech sector.

AGENCY CONTROLLEDDetermine the most secure environment for implementation, keeping data storage and management in the hands of agency officials.


The Ed-Fi Community is made up of organizations dedicated to improving education for students by unlocking the potential of data that is common to states and school districts using common technology solutions. These innovative, proven, and field tested contributions are made by the educational community, for the betterment of the educational community.

WHAT IS THE ED-FI COMMUNITY?

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COMMUNITY MAKEUPCOMMUNITY REACHMILLIONSTUDENTS25.3 (51%)

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MILLIONTEACHERS1.6DISTRICTS10,000

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Ed-Fi Dashboards 1.3 is the result of innovative contributions from the Ed-Fi Community that empower educators with real-time, actionable data on every student in their classrooms, schools, districts, or states.

• Community contributions from state education agencies like Pennsylvania, Arkansas, and Delaware are just a few examples of the collaboration and effectiveness of the Ed-Fi community.

• New educator insight capabilities made possible by Ed-Fi Dashboards 1.3, demonstrate the value of using community proven, research based technology that is developed from educator input.

HOW DID THE ED-FI COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTE TO ED-FI DASHBOARDS 1.3?

ED-FI DASHBOARDS 1.3 CONTRIBUTED FEATURES OVERVIEW


DYNAMIC WATCH LISTSDynamic Lists are a feature contributed by the Arkansas Department of Education that provide educators a dynamic grouping of students based on selected, customizable, filters.

• Filters include attendance, discipline, course, assessments, and sub-populations giving educators the flexibility and control they need to effectively identify patterns and impact student groups that may be underperforming.

• Once a Dynamic List has been created, students automatically come on or drop off a list and alert the teacher of changes, eliminating the time required to maintain custom lists.

• The criteria used for a dynamic list can be shared with all educators in a secure fashion so they can view their own students who meet a common set of criteria, ensuring consistent identification and monitoring across students, classrooms and schools.


DYNAMIC WATCH LISTS

• Group and monitor students based on educator defined criteria

• Real-time view of students that meet criteria

• Criteria for lists can be shared among peers


STANDARDS MASTERY VIEWThe standards mastery view is a feature contributed by the Delaware Department of Education and provides educators with insight on student performance on all assessment tests to date and the ability to drill down by learning standard.

Standards Mastery View can:• Be applied to any local assessment that aligns with defined educational

standards, allowing educators to assess progress along state expectations of student performance.

• Help educators tailor instruction by monitoring progress on specific learning standards over time to ensure students are mastering material.


STANDARDS MASTERY VIEW

• View assessment results by fine-grained learning standards

• Instruction can be tailored to cover areas of need for students


PLUG-IN ARCHITECTUREEd-Fi Dashboards 1.3 incorporates a robust plug-in architecture contributed by the Pennsylvania Department of Education that provides the ability to add unique dashboard features being requested by educators using a well-defined and well documented process—lowering the cost of customization.

• Plugin modules are self-contained, allowing developers to extend the out-of-the-box functionality without affecting the core dashboard functionality or other dashboard plugins—removing risk when developing new dashboard features.

• Ed-Fi Dashboards 1.3 includes sample plugin modules that provide step-by-step instructions to create, build, and run a plugin module, making dashboard customization a straightforward task that can be completed in-house.


ETL ENHANCEMENTSDashboard ETL packages now provide advanced reports that are automatically generated, making it easier to evaluate ETL performance, identify potential data bottlenecks, and ensure data fidelity.

• ETL package reports can also be customized providing system administrators a view of performance that matches their unique system environment.


“ Being part of a social network/community like the Ed-Fi Alliance gives me confidence we can also incorporate continuous improvement over time.”

– Paul Butler-Nalin, South Carolina Department of Education

WHAT THE COMMUNITY IS SAYING


“ The benefits are clear—it’s absolutely critical that states and local districts continue working together to develop technology solutions that positively advance student choices and outcomes throughout their journey to higher education and workforce.”

– Pat Bush, CIO for the Delaware Department of Education



WHAT THE COMMUNITY IS SAYING


“ The benefits are clear—it’s absolutely critical that states and local districts continue working together to develop technology solutions that positively advance student choices and outcomes throughout their journey to higher education and workforce.”

– Pat Bush, CIO for the Delaware Department of Education



WHAT THE COMMUNITY IS SAYING“ We are happy to be part of the leadership that is

helping to drive collaboration amongst states. The action this group has been able to undertake in a short period of time gives our department great hope for the future of community driven development.”

– Cody Decker, Assistant Commissioner and CIO for the Arkansas Department of Education


GET INVOLVEDAre you a teacher, CIO, school district, state education agency or education technology vendor? We would love to have you involved in the Ed-Fi Community.

1. Contact Us for additional questions regarding the Ed-Fi Community or for more information on ways to get involved

2. License the Ed-Fi Data Standard and Ed-Fi Implementation Suite of technology components to get started now

3. Visit Tech Docs for more technical information and instructions on accessing and contributing to technical code repositories

http://www.ed-fi.org/contact/

http://www.ed-fi.org/ed-fi-solution-works/license/

http://www.ed-fi.org/tech-docs/

THANK YOU!

Ed-Fi Community Contributions to Ed-Fi Dashboards 1.3

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