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MDE Ed-Fi Documentation: repository of basic docs on the MN Department of Education's Ed-Fi implementation.
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Course offerings and sections for IS and DirectPay PSEO #25

Closed mmdolbow closed 3 years ago

mmdolbow commented 3 years ago

A vendor has the following questions:

  1. For the Independent Study and Direct Pay PSEO types, are we ignoring all of the sections and just creating a single record?
  2. If the term descriptor is “NS,” what are we using to determine instructional minutes per term?
mmdolbow commented 3 years ago

ANSWER:

  1. For each of these types, you need to create a course record, a course offering, and a section.

    For IS, the course record is a regular course that is defined by the LEA, and the course offering and section records are "placeholders" set up to meet the Ed-Fi data model requirements. Normally a district will have multiple IS courses, for example, one for Algebra, one for English, one for Biology, etc.

    For Direct Pay PSEO, all three required records are "placeholder" records, and only one record is required for the the course.

    See the example JSON files in the data directory for examples of how to do this. Sections created for both types should relate to the unscheduled session you create. Remember you also need to create CourseCourseAssociations for these types of courses, and each has their own rules around those associations.

  2. There are no instructional minutes per term for these types of courses, so that element can be omitted from the course offering records. There is no scheduled session to use, so there's no way to identify instructional minutes.

For more information, visit the Ed-Fi On-boarding page, expand the "MCCC/Ed-Fi" section near the bottom, and click on the link titled "MDE Translation of Ed-Fi Operational Data Store (ODS) Data"