Ed-Fi Integration¶

The Ed-Fi interoperability framework facilitates collecting local education agency (LEA) information.

The Vermont Agency of Education(AOE) is looking to pilot Ed-Fi for the 2022-2023, 2023-2024 school years with the requirement that all Supervisory Unions submit via Ed-Fi for school year 2024-2025.

For SY23, we are targeting the Ed-Fi API for Suite 3 v5.3 (Latest), but have changed some descriptors to meet our states needs. You can read more about those changes in the Ed-Fi Governance Section of the site

Here's the EdFi Verions we will be using for the upcoming school years: - SY22-23 Ed-Fi v5.3 DS3.3 - SY23-24 Ed-Fi v7.1 DS4 - SY24-25 Ed-Fi v7.1 DS4

Below is additional information for various audiences:

Ed-Fi Integration

For Schools and Supervisory Unions¶

The hope is that Ed-Fi will streamline the work required for your organization to complete your state reporting. You'll just use your SIS, check some state-built data quality and validation reports to ensure everything is as it should be. No more passing around CSV files and using a separate interface to see obscure errors. Your vendor's interface will help you resolve the issues.

Each year you'll request a url and authentication credentials for your SIS to use for a particular school year. Annually AOE will prepare a new API/environment and you can reach out to the SLDS Support Group to get authentication information so you can prepare your system for the upcoming school year.

Data Quality(DQ) reports are available on the EFT in the "From AOE" folder. Please review those to ensure the data reported is what you are expecting. There are also exports of your Ed-Fi data in csv form for you to look at.

Something else we hope comes from using Ed-Fi together, is that we would be able to offer all SU's an interoperability framework to use to link up the different software systems you use to run your schools. For example, your food system could pull enrollment information from your SIS via Ed-Fi in near real time, while checking to see if any students qualify for free or reduced lunch, keeping both systems in sync.

You can find the legacy EdFusion file to Ed-Fi mapping here.

For Vendors & Service Providers¶

Please see the vendor specific information here for more information.

Legacy Codeset Mapping¶

Please see the Codeset Section section for more information about how the legacy EdFusion codesets map to Ed-Fi.