JANUARY 2023
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MOVING TO AWS
Revised MiDataHub Data Hosting Agreement and Move to Amazon Web Services:
In the Summer of 2020, the Michigan Data Hub (MiDataHub) consolidated from 5 regional data hubs to one production environment hosted at Oakland Schools. Oakland has been a great host for the environment, but due to liability issues and other factors, we have been working on plans to move hosting to a new location. Given the expertise in Amazon Web Services (AWS) hosting at Kalamazoo RESA, fiscal agent for MiDataHub, plans are underway to move hosting to that environment. 

We have scheduled a webinar for Wednesday, February 1st at 9 am to walk through the rationale for the decision, the timeline for the migration, and the changes to the Data Hosting Agreement that are necessitated by the move. Please use the registration link below to sign up for the webinar. The webinar will be recorded and made available to those unable to attend. Also provided is a link to the proposed data hosting agreement with the planned revisions.
UPDATES PLANNED FOR WEEKEND OF 1/27
MiDataHub Update Planned for the Weekend of 1/27-29
This weekend the MiDataHub Team will be working to upgrade to our 2022.12.12 release, which covers development work that was completed by December 12th, has been tested, and is ready for deployment. The update has a significant number of enhancements and improvements, including:
  • MSDS Updates
  • Extractor updates to include better population for ISD and RESAs
  • Extractor update to pull physical addresses and only mailing addresses when null
  • Updates to clean up MSDS alert functionality
  • Update to MSDS error check to allow rules that are thrown by building to be reported by building instead of by student
  • Minor changes and bug fixes
  • Release of inbound integration for Acadience Online testing - Acadience Online is a new version of the Acadience assessment, and is now supported
  • Updates to Acadience Progress Monitoring to follow standard assessment loading path and to correct file issue
  • Descriptor Additions for EEM and update to several descriptors adding effective end date for retiring descriptors
  • Updates to Secure File Transport Protocol (SFTP) functionality to handle username changes in the user interface and deactivations of districts and integrations
  • Updates to the Michigan Data Exchange (MIDX) user interface to alert end users of a long-running bulk process and to prevent multiple syncs from being executed at once
  • Update to Ed-Fi API to properly report a 404 error when a delete is executed against a resource that is not present. Due to a security issue this was being returned as a 500 incorrectly.
  • Management Portal Enhancements - The management portal is an environment where vendors, initiatives, and researchers can provide details on their integrations and monitor data quality issues if provided access.
  • Testing PostGres instance for API logging - The value of PostGres is that it allows MiDataHub to manage log databases much more cost-effectively than in Microsoft SQL Server.
  • Initial release of oneRoster 1.1 specification alignment - introduction of scopes - This functionality brings MiDataHub into compliance with more recent changes. (I'll include more details on this item in future newsletters.)
MIDATAHUB ANNUAL REPORT
Each year MiDataHub must produce a report due to the Michigan Legislature by 12/31.  We are pleased to announce that the Michigan Data Hub Annual Report for the 2022-2023 School Year is posted and available on the MiDataHub Website.  
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