Editing Ed-Fi (section)

==Tools==

The Ed-Fi Tool suite was developed by the [https://www.msdf.org/ Michael & Susan Dell Foundation] to assist in improving student achievement in the K-12 education sector. It includes such technologies as: 

*<strong>An operational data store and API</strong>: The Ed-Fi Operational Data Store (ODS) integrates and stores data from several applications while the API enables developers to create, read and update data that are stored in the ODS. 

*<strong>An analytics middle tier</strong>: The middle tier represents a set of views or analytic tables that have been built over the ODS tables/API. This tier allows users to build reporting tools from the data that are stored in the ODS. 

*<strong>Admin App</strong>: The admin app is the application that enables administration of the Ed-Fi ODS

*<strong>Data import</strong>: The data import tool enables users to load their data in CSV format into an Ed-Fi ODS/API. 

*<strong>Ed-Fi Exchange</strong>: Users can share solutions to the Ed-Fi Exchange. Other Ed-Fi licensees can then download those solutions. These solutions could be things such as data standard extensions, ODS and API extensions and dashboard plug-ins. In addition, higher-level contributions such as technical white papers and implementation project overviews may be contributed to assist other licensees implementing Ed-Fi. ([https://www.ed-fi.org/what-is-ed-fi/ed-fi-technology/]) The exchange is a place for the Ed-Fi community to share approaches, innovations, and tools.  

*<strong>MetaED IDE</strong>: This is a tool for customization. Users’ technical staff can “create new data elements and align them with your overall data architecture” using this tool. ([https://www.ed-fi.org/what-is-ed-fi/ed-fi-technology/]) 

In sum, the Ed-Fi tool suite can extract student information from a variety of education data systems and then standardize, integrate, and communicate them to educators and other parties through web-based dashboards, reports, and other applications.

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