August 20, 2018
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Vendor Engagement Exploding - With the growing adoption of MiDataHub by Michigan schools, the vendor community is showing increased interest in developing and improving integrations. Over just the last week we have had outreach from and begun discussions with three educational applications or platforms that are new to Michigan.
  • Kiddom - “The all-in-one school operating system” boasts a rich library of online curriculum resources and materials with a clean simple-to-use interface.
  • MIDAS Education - “Everything You Need. Nothing that you don’t.” Offers robust analytics data exploration, educator growth and professional development, and education enterprise management bundled into one rich and dynamic educational data system.
  • Lea(R)n - “LearnPlatform is the comprehensive edtech management and rapid-cycle evaluation system for educators and administrators to organize, streamline and analyze their classroom technology to improve instructional, operational and financial decisions.”

All three of these exciting resources are new to Michigan and are excited about partnering with MiDataHub to offer simple and seamless integrations for Michigan school districts in the near future. Watch this newsletter for pilot district opportunities for all three of these, and many other, exciting educational resources.
New Vendor Relations Manager position filled! - Staying on the vendor partner topic, we are excited to announce that in partnership with the Michigan Collaboration Hub we have hired Anne Crylen as our Vendor Relations Manager.  

Anne comes to us with experience as a teacher, principal, curriculum director and has worked overseas as a Fulbright Research Fellow. She brings a broad understanding of the needs of schools and systems from perspectives as diverse as Chicago, Cambodia, China, and here in Michigan as a consultant for Zeeland Public Schools. 

Anne brings a positive, creative, high-energy charisma to the role, just what we need to build relationships with and support vendor-partners as they integrate with MiDataHub.

We believe this marks an important turning point for MiDataHub. Anne will will help us move to the next level by ensuring we have all of the systems schools want and need connected to MiDataHub.

Welcome aboard Anne! 
18-19 ODS - As previously mentioned in past newsletters the 2018-19 ODS for your district is now available. The Current School Year setting is used to determine which ODS is used in processing Inbound/Outbound Integrations and the default selection on Reports. Please note one change from previous updates is that the current school year setting does not need to be set to the current year of data integrating from the Student Information System. As an example, if you are publishing 2017-18 data from your Student Information System the current school year setting can be 2018-19. For more information on the 2018-19 New Year Rollover process and the current school year configuration please follow the link below. As you proceed forward with the new integration please reach out to us at support@midatahub.org  if you have any questions!