MiRead has launched the 4th alpha pilot district: Van Buren Public Schools
Administrators, literacy coaches, teachers, and literacy consultants from Wayne RESA met on February 26th to learn how to use the MiRead tool. This was the first MiStar SIS district to use MiRead. The Van Buren Public Schools and Wayne RESA teams worked with the MiDataHub, MAISA, and development partners at Ottawa ISD to get the system up and running.
Building principals logged in, set cut scores, and configured teacher-access in the system. Teachers then logged in, worked through all of the MiRead screens, helped troubleshoot a few minor data issues, and began the IRIP process. With feedback from this day, the MiRead team is completing updates and will be working with Wayne RESA in the coming week to ensure that all of the data needed for MiRead can flow seamlessly from MiStar.
We want to thank the teams at Van Buren Public Schools and Wayne RESA for volunteering to be alpha pilots and lay the foundation to ensure other districts using MiStar will be able to easily implement and begin using MiRead this summer!
Concurrently, beta pilot districts are in the process of setting up MiDataHub connections with district SIS’s, literacy assessments, and the single sign-on with MiLaunchPad. With any luck, we will have beta pilots up and running in the next four to six weeks to complete initial-use testing and
position MiRead for a summer/fall launch statewide
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New Live Districts-
- Edwardsburg Public Schools
- Pittsford Area Schools
- School District of the City of Hamtramck
New District Sign Ups-
- Covert Public Schools
- Portland Public Schools
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Michigan Integrated Continuous Improvement Process (MICIP)
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Have you heard about MDE’s
Michigan Integrated Continuous Improvement Process (MICIP)
?
MiDataHub, the Michigan Collaboration Hub (MiCH) at MAISA - along with a number of ISD software development shops - are now partnering with the Michigan Department of Education on the design, development and implementation of MICIP.
Building upon years of work at MDE and founded in the
Top Ten in Ten
mission, MDE has established three stakeholder groups to help design the MICIP, from assessing needs, to planning, to implement-evaluate-monitor process and system design. MiCH and MiDataHub, as partners in the process will be engaging the MDE groups along with a number of other stakeholder groups in the design process, beginning this Friday March 1st with the MiDataHub Actionable Data Advisory. The initial visioning and development of conceptual wireframes was done nearly a year ago with MiRead. We will be partnering with Atomic Object, a Michigan Software design and development firm, to facilitate initial visioning sessions and synthesize input from 5-7 groups over the next six to eight weeks and create the initial user interface and user experience design. These wireframes will then be shared with stakeholders at MDE, Michigan’s Educational Professional Associations, and a wide range of educator groups in constant short-cycle feedback groups over the next year to ensure that MICIP meets the needs of teachers, administrators, schools, districts, and across all offices at the Department of Education.
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MiDataHub On-boarding Guide
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We have created a checklist tool called the
MiDataHub On-boarding Guide
.
This PDF document will walk your district through some of the most common integrations that districts are using in MiDataHub. In many cases, the document will link you out to documentation that is on our website. The guide is intended to be used with a link to our
ISD and District Status Update
spreadsheet, which will provide the status for your district and each of the common items to configure. The status information will be updated on a weekly basis, and the use of this guide will be covered on our next district webinar. See article below for webinar details.
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Our next MiDataHub webinar will be on
Wednesday, March 13th from 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm.
Please click on
this link
to register.
We will be updating you on the status of everything that is currently in development (including some exciting work with MDE on MICIP), walk through the status of integrations, talk about the MiDataHub OnBoarding Guide, discuss the OneRoster API and answer any questions that arise.
We look forward to having you join us!
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Many people know that MiDataHub can provide connectivity to systems using the Ed-Fi API, but we are also able to provide connectivity using the OneRoster API as well. OneRoster is a standard from IMS Global. Its use is limited to rostering purposes, but there are a wide range of applications that need just that. A few systems that we are working with on using OneRoster include Discovery Education, Follett Destiny Library, Microsoft School Data Sync, and Safari Montage. In the case of Discovery Education, we’ve paired the capability with our Single Sign-On federation, which allows students and staff to access resources with their district logins. Please contact us at
support@midatahub.org
if your district is interested in using OneRoster for any connections.
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Just a quick reminder to use
our support desk when you have questions, run into obstacles, or have any suggestions regarding your integration with MiDataHub.
To submit a ticket, follow these simple steps below:
- Send an email to support@midatahub.org. This will generate a ticket within 5-10 minutes.
- Somewhere in the body of the email please include the following information:
- District name
- Title/Role (for assigning credentials)
- Contact Information
- Detailed information on request
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