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EdTech Vendor Tools for Schools (Student Information Systems)

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One-Way Data

Ed-Fi Credential: Submitting your Data to DPI

List of Certified Vendors

Changing Vendors & Help

 

EdTech Vendor Tools

There are different types of EdTech vendor tools. Staff or student information systems (SIS) are the most prominent and the SIS acronym is often used as a synonym for all EdTech tools.

There are other types of EdTech vendor tools that specialize in:

  • assessment data
  • discipline data
  • finance or human resources data
  • Xello

A student information system, or SIS, is a software that provides a local education agency services (LEAs) to help manage the large amounts of data schools are required to collect and report based on state and federal laws. LEAs in Wisconsin with statutory data reporting requirements must use a SIS to send their data to the Department of Public Instruction (DPI).

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WISEdata Is a Read Only Application

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The WISEdata Portal (WDP) application is used to verify that data is pushed from your student information system (SIS) to the Department of Public Instruction (DPI). For more information about how the data flow process works (i.e., how data gets from your school over to DPI), visit the Ed-Fi Credential: Submitting Data to DPI webpage.

Important things to understand about WISEdata Portal:

  1. WISEdata Portal is a “read-only” or “view-only” application.
    • This means that DPI staff cannot change data in WISEdata Portal.
  2. Data is ‘pushed’ from an LEA’s SIS to the WISEdata Portal. WISEdata Portal does not ‘pull’ data in.
  3. The data that is visible in WISEdata Portal today will be visible in WISEdash for Districts tomorrow.
    • At a glance, Wisconsin has over 2,000 public schools, containing over 800,000 students and over 100,000 teachers and staff. Data is sent to DPI about each of these daily. Processing data of this quantity while also maintaining data security takes time.

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Vendor List

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There are many vendors who provide SIS tools and services. Schools can select the certified vendor of their preference. Visit the Certified Vendor List webpage to view the vendors who offer student information systems (SISs) and other products that can submit data to WISEdata based on the widely adopted Ed-Fi Data Exchange Standards. This list is not a DPI endorsement of vendors.

DPI cannot endorse specific vendors. However, vendors who do not certify annually with DPI will not be able to submit your school or district data to DPI on your behalf.

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Ed-Fi Credential: Submitting Data to DPI

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SIS vendor tools cannot fully complete their function of sending data to DPI alone. SIS tools must push school data to DPI using an application programming interface (API). This is the Ed-Fi API. The Ed-Fi Credential application is the DPI's own specific application used to manage the API connection between your vendor tools and WISE (sometimes referred to in shortened form as ‘Ed Cred’). It is what you, the Local Education Agency (LEA), use to control the flow of data to WISE applications.

Ed-Fi Credential Application User Guide

For detailed information on how the application works and to learn what you need to do at the start of each school year to get your data flowing to DPI, visit the Ed-Fi Credential: User Guide.

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Changing from One Ed-Tech Vendor to Another

If you're thinking of switching or will soon implement a new SIS that you recently purchased, please do each of the following:

  1. Read the SIS Conversion Guidance webpage.
  2. Submit a Help Ticket to the Partner Support Team before you make any changes so that we can help you plan and prepare for this change.

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Didn't Find What You Needed?

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The Partner Support Team is here to help!

Please submit a WISE Help Ticket so we may better assist you.

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