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Chronic Absenteeism Solution Guide

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Want to know more before you begin? Read more about School Districts and Addressing Chronic Absenteeism.

About the Chronic Absenteeism Solution Guide​

This Solution Guide helps Student Information System vendors take the necessary steps to provide districts with the data needed to dashboards and reports on chronic absenteeism.  

Vendor support for chronic absenteeism encompasses the following steps:

  • Learn. The Ed-Fi website has detail on Chronic Absenteeism, and information about how others in the Ed-Fi Community have addressed the problem. Read more about how to Help School Districts Address Chronic Absenteeism.
  • Develop. Add Ed-Fi capabilities to your product to support customers addressing chronic absenteeism.
  • Test. To fully realize the benefits of the Chronic Absenteeism Starter Kit, and ensure your solution is field ready, we recommend selecting and working with an existing district customer to test your integration in a live, Ed-Fi implementation of the starter kit. Securing a district customer will allow you a reference point for future adoptees of this starter kit. Working with a local district agency is not required but it is strongly recommended.
  • Certify. For vendor organizations that have completed integration with the starter kit using the vendor developer guide, apply for the API Domain Certification so you may be listed as a badged partner.

Let's Get Started​

This developer guide describes the processes for a Student Information System to develop the functionality in their platform to provide data to an Ed-Fi API to power the Chronic Absenteeism Starter Kit.

Chronic Absenteeism Vendor Developer Guide

The Guide is divided into three sections. We recommend you go through the following sections and subsections in order, but welcome you to skip forward when you are already knowledgeable about a topic.

I. Getting Data Flowing​

This first section presents the basic information to allow you to interact with the Ed-Fi API and get some early data flowing in a development context.

II. Understanding Ed-Fi APIs​

This section explains design features specific to Ed-Fi APIs and how to integrate with them. After completing this section, you should have the knowledge to connect your system to an Ed-Fi API and successfully transmit larger amounts of data.

III. Tools and Best Practices​

This section provides information on tools and best practices to assist in your development and in the long-term maintenance and health of supporting organizations using the Chronic Absenteeism Starter Kit.

Next Steps​

Upon completing development of the Ed-Fi API functionality, you can test the features with a customer.