Thursday, April 12, 2018

1:00 PM  - 2:00 PM

Ed-Fi Certification Program
Las Palmas C
The Alliance currently offers API integration certifications for student information systems and assessment systems. Join a conversation on community needs and the the past, present and future of Ed-Fi certification.


These broad session notes attempt to capture the spirit of the discussion and should not be interpreted as a transcript. Although Ed-Fi Alliance staff were involved in capturing these observations, the notes below should not be construed as official, complete, or 100% accurate.

Key Questions for discussion

Summary notes

  1. Strong interest in domain-based certification by Ed-Fi Alliance

    1. Could make certification re-usable by SEAs

    2. Prevents unnatural forcing of vendors to cover non-operational domains

  2. Possibly incorporate a production environment test for certification (follow Nebraska model). There is a difference between test and production environments and data, and the best test of integration is a test on production data.

  3. General difficulties with customizable option sets. Which sets can be standardized and which are inevitably local?

    1. Asserting an Ed-Fi “standard” set makes sense to handle cases like rostering and provide a core model to work towards

    2. Problem for scaling Ed-Fi as a service