March 28, 2019

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Vendor Spotlight

The long awaited MiDataHub Product Catalog is live! Find the information you need through this completely searchable tool. We will be updating the Product Catalog with documentation links, integration steps and timelines as we continue to work with existing and new vendors. Stay tuned for more updates! Please send questions about the catalog to the Vendor Relations Manager, Anne Crylen at anne.crylen@midatahub.org.

New Queries and Scripts

The MiDataHub website contains a number of queries that can be run in the Custom Export Manager of the cockpit application. To run the queries, navigate to your district landing page, click on the "Reports" drop down > and choose "Manage Custom Exports". Training videos for the Custom Export tool can be found on our Training Page under the title “Data Hub 103 - Flexible Export Creation and Management”. https://www.midatahub.org/support/data-validation-queries/ The first of the queries is the School Data Load Analysis. This query provides a breakdown of data loaded in several categories for each school building. It is very helpful in making sure that you have all of the data loaded for every school. It is similar in nature to the "At-A-Glance Report", but it includes some items that the report does not. The second of the new queries is the "School Section Analysis". This query is used to verify that each school has sections, and shows the numbers of both students and staff assigned. The final new query we will highlight is the "Student Intervention Assignment List". This query is designed for districts that use the Intervention Catalog in the dashboards. It will provide a list of students with interventions along with all of the intervention details. This provides a really nice summary report of all students who have interventions. It also will show any interventions sent from other applications when that occurs. If you have any ideas for additional queries that would be helpful to your district, please email support@midatahub.org with those suggestions.

Past 2019 Midwest Powerschool User Group Conference

2019 Midwest Powerschool User Group Conference MiDataHub was invited to present at the 2019 Midwest Powerschool User Group Conference March 18th - 20th in Michigan City, IN. Five sessions expanding across multiple areas including new features and functionality including: MiLearn UIC Services API integrations  validating data using reports and scripts and hands on sessions for configuring Powerschool Data Hub was represented by a mix of presenters which included Kevin Bullard (MiDataHub), Melissa Tront (SJCISD), Tim Hall (MDE), and participants from the audience. The sessions were well attended and the audience was able to ask a lot of questions. We are hopeful the presentations provided attendees additional ideas on functionality available to them and new ideas on how to use MiDataHub to create a system of interoperability. If you have a need for a similar presentations for your IS work group or conference, please let us know. We are happy to provide this opportunity to everyone and will tailor the presentation to be SIS specific. You can send those requests to support@midatahub.org .

Participation

New Live Districts- Huron ISD Inland Lakes Schools Onaway Area Community School District Wolverine Community School District New District Sign Ups- Monroe Public Schools NexTech High School of Lansing Branch Line School Fitzgerald Public Schools If your district has not yet been involved with the Michigan Data Hub, please click here to sign up .

Educational Entity Master (EEM)

What is the Educational Entity Master (EEM) integration I keep hearing about, and what will it provide to me? The EEM integration creates a path for your local state building information to flow from CEPI to MiDataHub for your district.  A few benefits from this integration: Prepares your district to run MSDS (state reporting) error checks and will eventually allow for the ability to submit state reporting directly from MiDataHub. In the future this integration might also provide a way for user information in the Data Hub Cockpit to be dynamically updated. Name and email addresses for superintendents, district administrators, and others will mirror what is in EEM.  To create the EEM API integration in your Data Hub Cockpit, please configure based on the settings in the image below. You can also follow the link below to the product catalog containing this and more information. MiDataHub - EEM Integration 

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