July 26, 2018
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Reminder - July MiDataHub Update Webinar
If you haven’t had the chance to view the first session of the MiDataHub monthly update, please sign up to view the second session J uly 30th ( register here).   Click here    for previous webinars.
M-STEP Data Moving to Production by the End of the Month
The work to complete the M-STEP data loading directly from state data sources is nearing completion, and is expected in production by July 31st. As soon as the production push is made, we will begin configuring all of the districts in the data hub to receive the data. Work has already been completed on the dashboards to display the data as soon as it is there. Vendors that consume assessment data, such as Eidex and Schoolzilla, will be able to access that data if your district is configured to provide it to them. We very much appreciate the assistance of the Center for Educational Performance and Information (CEPI) and the Michigan Department of Education (MDE) in this long-awaited process.
Preparing for 2018-19
The process to create the 2018-19 district databases, or operational data stores (ODSs) as they are called has been completed. This will allow districts to begin exchanging data for the upcoming school year. Please know the 2016-17 ODSs have been removed for districts that did not have data populated in them, but any ODS that has student data has been retained.

As of July 8th, the 2018-19 ODS are available to begin publishing data into. Please remember the year selected from the Current School Year pull down menu in the Data Hub Cockpit will impact not only what ODS is updated from your Student Information System but will be the default or current year selected for your inbound and outbound data integrations.

  • Example: If 2018-19 is selected as the current ODS in the current school year within the data hub cockpit any corresponding data exports and imports labeled current year will use the data residing in the 2018-19 ODS. Please make sure the year of data being published from your Student Information System matches this current year selection.
  • Prior to selecting the 2018-19 School Year please review SIS Requirements – these steps will vary for each SIS tool:
  • Ensure all courses, code set mappings, student data, and other integration requirements have been configured in the SIS for the new school year.
  • Turn on transactional updates, so that any changes will be submitted to the data hub database.
  • Initiate a full initial transfer of all data to the data hub per your SIS design.
  • Run data quality checks within the Data Hub Cockpit to ensure that the data is sufficient to support integrations with other systems (Data Quality Reports, Data Freshness Script, etc.).
  • Reactivate all integrations that were disabled previously.

For more information on the 2018-19 New Year Rollover please follow this link: MiDataHub - New Year Process .
2018-19 SIS Vendor Call Schedule
The purpose of these virtual calls is to provide time for the vendor and Data Hub team to collaborate on troubleshooting and discussing current and upcoming functionality.

Tuesday Bi-Weekly starting 7/23/18 (only exception is Infinite Campus)
  • Powerschool SIS - 10:30 AM -10:50 AM
  • Powerschool SE - 10:50 AM -11:10 AM
  • SunGard/PowerSchool eSchoolPlus - 11:10 AM -11:40 AM
  • Synergy - 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
  • Skyward - 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
  • Infinite Campus -
  • 1st Wednesday of every month 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • 3rd Wednesday of every month 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

If you would like to join any of these calls please send an email to support@midatahub.org letting us know which SIS vendor call you would like to participate.
MiSchoolData Redesign RFP to be Released this Week
The RFP for the MiSchoolData Redesign is nearly ready and will be released to vendors this week. If you know of a vendor that would be interested in bidding on this work, please submit a ticket to support@midatahub.org .
Integrations Summary
The following software integrations are ready for the start of school or scheduled to be ready. Please contact support@midatahub.org for configuration assistance on any of these products:
  • aimsWebPlus
  • Algebra Nation
  • BrightArrow Alert
  • DIBELS Next - Roster data currently, assessment data in development
  • Discovery Education (OneRoster)
  • Eidex
  • Follett Destiny Library (OneRoster
  • Illuminate - Rostering only for DNA and ISE
  • KRA - Roster data in pilot, Assessment data by November
  • NWEA
  • MealMagic
  • Microsoft School Data Sync (OneRoster)
  • SAS EVAAS
  • Schoolzilla
  • SWIS - Roster Only, Referral Data in Development
  • Symbaloo (OneRoster)
  • USA Scheduler
  • Xello/Career Cruising
MiStrategyBank
This statewide application is being built in conjunction with the MiRead Literacy Portal and will serve as a central repository for managing instructional strategies, interventions, and extensions for Michigan schools. The initial use for MiStrategyBank will be to provide strategy information for MiRead, later this year we will be integrating the system with our EdFi EWIMS Dashboards. In time, our hope is that the system will integrate with MDE’s School Improvement and grant application tools. 
MiStrategyBank will come pre-populated with strategies from national repositories such as the What Works Clearinghouse. Each local districts leadership or school improvement team will be able to access and select those strategies that will be visible or accessible to educators in their district from that master list. Strategies in the Bank will have a number of attributes and will be sortable and searchable. Local districts will also have the ability to add locally created strategies to the system for use in their district.