What's New for SDG

This section provides an overview of what's new in the latest version of the Sample Data Generator.

Updates and Improvements in SDG v1.3

  • Major community updates by EdGraph to utilize NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) district survey data to generate SDG configuration.  It has been noted by end-users of the SDG that configuration is a time-consuming task with many configuration point to update the necessary configuration.  NCES publishes this data annually, which includes many data points needed for SDG to model a school district within the listing.  This update automates that step with the existing NCES CCD data to greatly reduce the time and manual effort to use SDG to model a school district.  
  • Support for Ed-Fi Data Standard v3.3.1-b
  • Migrated to .NET 6 Framework

Updates and Improvements in SDG v1.2

  • Support for Ed-Fi Data Standard v3.2-a

Updates and Improvements in SDG v1.1.1

  • FIX:  EDFI-135 - Cannot import sample data generated by EdFi.SDG.v22.exe into ODS 2.5

Updates and Improvements in SDG v1.1 

  • Support for Ed-Fi Data Standard v3.1
  • Fix added to include required Namespace value in v2.2 Assessment sample data
  • Fix added to remove duplicate AssessedGradeLevel values in v2.2 Assessment sample data
  • Fix added to include required StudentAssessmentIdentifier and Namespace value in v2.2 StudentAssessment sample data

Updates and Improvements in SDG v1.0

  • Support for Ed-Fi Data Standards v2.0, v2.2 and v3.0
  • Multiple data standard version support in a single distribution

Updates and Improvements in SDG v0.8

  • Model transfer students
  • Implement seed data output
  • Add mutator framework
  • Create initial set of evolver mutators to change student address, phone number, class period, and more over time
  • Create initial set of error mutators to simulate data entry errors such as transposing birth date information, munging area code, and similar