Sections (Indiana v3.6)

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This educational entity represents a setting in which organized instruction of course content is provided to one or more students for a given period of time. A course may be offered to more than one class/section. Instruction, provided by one or more teachers or other staff members, may be delivered in person or via a different medium.

Object Triggering Logic

This table describes logic for triggering syncing of this object.

ActionTrigger
Post

When a section is created and saved.

  • Section Placement is required in order for the section to send.
  • One record will report for each Section and Term Type combination.

  • Do not send records if the Calendar Exclude checkbox is marked.

  • Do not send records if the course is marked inactive or 'Exclude from State Reporting'.
  • Do not send if the School Exclude checkbox is marked.
PostWhen Section Placement is changed and saved on a section.
PostWhen the Local Course Number or Term type Override is changed.
Put

When any fields listed below are changed:

  • When the local course name, course number, or SCED Sequence Number is changed and saved on the Course editor.
  • When Credit is changed on Grading Task Credit.
  • When the Instructional Setting is changed and saved on a section.
  • When the Room ID is changed and saved on a section.
  • When the Medium of Instruction field is changed or added.
  • When the Name field is changed on Period.
  • When the ScheduleID field is changed on the Period Schedule.
DeleteWhen a section is deleted.
DeleteWhen Section Placement is changed or removed and saved on a section.
DeleteWhen the Local Course Number is changed.

School Exclude, Calendar Exclude, Resource Toggle and Resync Logic

This table describes the School Exclude, Calendar Exclude, Resource Toggle and Resync logic of this object.

ActionTrigger
NoneIf a resource is toggled to 'OFF' after data has sent, all sent data will remain in the ODS but no new data will send.
DeleteIf a resource is toggled to 'OFF" after data has sent and an action is performed that would trigger a delete, that data will remain in the ODS until a resync is done.
ResyncIf a record is in the Ed-Fi Identity Mapping table and not in the ODS, it will be deleted from the Ed-Fi Identity Mapping table.
ResyncIf a record is in the ODS and it does not have a matching record in Campus or the Ed-Fi Identity Mapping table, it will be deleted from the ODS.
ResyncIf a mapping is changed in Resource Preferences, a resync will need to be done to reflect the changes.

Natural Key Changes, Cascading Updates, and Deletes Logic

This table describes the Natural Key Changes/Cascading Updates and Deletes logic of this object.

ActionTrigger
Post/Delete

Natural Key Changes:

  • If the School ID changes, all data will remain under the old number and a resync will need to be completed to populate data under the new number. The delete tool would need to be used to remove all data from the old School ID.
Post/Delete

If any of the following changes in the Course Offerings resource:

  • Local Course Code
  • Session Name
Post/DeleteIf the natural key changes all dependent data will delete/post.
Dependent ResourcesStaff Section Associations, Student Section Associations, Student Section Attendance Events, Grades.

Scope Year Logic

This table describes scope year logic of this object.

Logic
Sections report to the configured year to which they are aligned.
Data only sends for years that have valid configuration.

Resource Preferences

Data Element LabelMapping Needed
Instructional SettingEducational Environment Descriptors

Identity Mapping Object Key

campusObjectTypeObject Key Data Source
SectionPlacementsectionID-termID

Event Queue Detail

This table describes the Event Queue Detail of this object.

Campus TableEd-Fi ActionFields
sectionPlacementPost/Put/DeleteThe primary table used for sending data for this resource .
coursePutSequence of Course
sectionPut

Educational Environment Descriptor


gradingTaskCreditPutAvailable Credits

Object Data Elements

This table describes data elements sent within the Sections resource.

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Data Element Label

Business Requirement

Business Rules

M, C or O

Location

idThe unique identifier of the resource.

 

M 
sectionIdentifier uniqueSectionCode

The local identifier assigned to a section.

Reports the section ID of the section being reported.

M Course > Section

section.sectionID
courseOfferingReferenceA reference to the related CourseOffering resource.

Reports the fields that are part of the Natural Key for the Course Offering resource.


M 
locationReferenceA reference to the related Location resource.

Reports the fields that are part of the Natural Key for the Locations resource.


O 
locationSchoolReferenceA reference to the related School resource.

Reports the fields that are part of the Natural Key for the School resource.


M 
availableCreditConversionConversion factor that when multiplied by the number of credits is equivalent to Carnegie units.

This is optional, does not report.

O 
availableCreditsCredits or units of value awarded for the completion of a course.
  1. Sum the total number of credits from the Grading Tasks on the course.
  2. Divide by the number of terms the course section occurs.
OCourse > Grading Tasks > Credit

gradingTaskCredit.Credit
availableCreditTypeDescriptorThe type of credits or units of value awarded for the completion of a course.

This is optional, does not report.

O 
characteristics

This descriptor defines characteristics of a section, such as whether attendance is taken and the section is graded.

This is optional, does not report.

O



classPeriods
The class period during which the Section meets.

See array section for logic.

O 
courseLevelCharacteristicsThe type of specific program or designation with which the section is associated (e.g., AP, IB, Dual Credit, CTE). This collection should only be populated if it differs from the Course Level Characteristics identified at the Course Offering level.

This is optional, does not report.

O
educationalEnvironmentDescriptorThe setting in which a child receives education and related services; for example: Center-based instruction Home-based instruction Hospital class Mainstream Residential care and treatment facility.

This is optional, does not report.

OCourse > Section > Instructional Setting

section.instructionalSetting
instructionLanguageDescriptorThe primary language of instruction, if omitted English is assumed.

This is optional, does not report.

O 
mediumOfInstructionTypeThe media through which teachers provide instruction to students and students and teachers communicate about instructional matters; for example: Technology-based instruction in classroom Correspondence instruction Face-to-face instruction Virtual/On-line Distance learning Center-based instruction.
  • Reports the Ed-Fi Code value from the mapped Medium of Instruction selected on the course section being reported
  • If NULL, reports the value to 'Face-to-face instruction'
    • Will always report this unless the field is explicitly changed to a different value.
MScheduling > Course > Section > Medium of Instruction

section.mediumOfInstruction
offeredGradeLevelsThe grade levels in which the section is offered. This collection should only be populated if it differs from the Offered Grade Levels identified at the Course Offering level.

This is optional, does not report.

O
populationServedDescriptorThe population for which the course was designed; for example: Bilingual students Remedial education students Gifted and talented students Career and Technical Education students Special education students.

This is optional, does not report.

O 
programsAn unordered collection of sectionPrograms. This educational entity represents a setting in which organized instruction of course content is provided to one or more students for a given period of time. A course may be offered to more than one class/section. Instruction, provided by one or more teachers or other staff members, may be delivered in person or via a different medium.

This is optional, does not report.

O 
sectionNameThe local name of the section.Reports the courseNumber-sectionNumber + courseName
  • Ex: 1000-100 English 9
O

Course > Number

Section > Number

Course > Name


sequenceOfCourseWhen a section is part of a sequence of parts for a course, the number if the sequence. If the course has only one part, the value of this section attribute should be 1.
  1. Reports the value selected in the SCED Sequence "Part n" field.
  2. If NULL, reports '1'.
MScheduling > Course > Course

courseinfo.SCEDSequence
Number
etagA unique system-generated value that identifies the version of the resource.
  1. This is optional, does not report.
O 

Arrays

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Class Periods

Data Element Label

Business Requirement

Business Rules

M, C or O

Location

classPeriodReference

The period Name.

Reports the Name of the period .M

System Administration > Calendar > Calendar > Periods


period.name

Type/Descriptor

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Medium Of Instruction Types

Code ValueDescriptionNamespace
Face-to-face instructionFace-to-face instructionuri://ed-fi.org/MediumOfInstructionDescriptor
Technology-based instruction in classroomTechnology-based instruction in classroomuri://ed-fi.org/MediumOfInstructionDescriptor
Virtual/On-line Distance learningVirtual/On-line Distance learninguri://ed-fi.org/MediumOfInstructionDescriptor

Educational Environment Descriptors

Code ValueDescriptionNamespaceShort Description
Hospital classHospital classuri://ed-fi.org/EducationalEnvironmentDescriptorHospital class
LaboratoryLaboratoryuri://ed-fi.org/EducationalEnvironmentDescriptorLaboratory
Pull-out classPull-out classuri://ed-fi.org/EducationalEnvironmentDescriptorPull-out class
Self-contained (Special Education)Self-contained (Special Education)uri://ed-fi.org/EducationalEnvironmentDescriptorSelf-contained (Special Education)
Off-school centerOff-school centeruri://ed-fi.org/EducationalEnvironmentDescriptorOff-school center
ShopShopuri://ed-fi.org/EducationalEnvironmentDescriptorShop
Resource roomResource roomuri://ed-fi.org/EducationalEnvironmentDescriptorResource room
Self-studySelf-studyuri://ed-fi.org/EducationalEnvironmentDescriptorSelf-study
HomeboundHomebounduri://ed-fi.org/EducationalEnvironmentDescriptorHomebound
Single sex classroomSingle sex classroomuri://ed-fi.org/EducationalEnvironmentDescriptorSingle sex classroom
ClassroomClassroomuri://ed-fi.org/EducationalEnvironmentDescriptorClassroom
Mainstream (Special Education)Mainstream (Special Education)uri://ed-fi.org/EducationalEnvironmentDescriptorMainstream (Special Education)
In-school suspensionIn-school suspensionuri://ed-fi.org/EducationalEnvironmentDescriptorIn-school suspension

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