Course Offerings (Nebraska v3.5)

Classic View: System Administration > Ed-Fi 

Search Terms: Ed-Fi

This entity represents an offering of a course by school during a session, representing the course catalog of available courses.

Object Triggering Logic

This table describes logic for triggering syncing of this object.

ActionTrigger
Post

When a section with Section Placement is created and saved.

  • One record  reports per Course and Term Type combination.
  • Do not send records if the Calendar Exclude check box is checked.
  • Do not send a record if the School Exclude checkbox is checked.

  • Do not send records if the course is marked inactive or Exclude.
  • When the Secondary School field is populated, report information from this new school as an override to the current school.
Delete/PostWhen the Local Course Number is changed.
Delete/PostIf the Term Descriptor changes either via section placement or mapping override and a course offering already exists with non-matching Term Descriptors.
Put

When Course information is changed and saved.

  • Course Name
DeleteWhen a section is deleted.
DeleteWhen a section schedule placement is removed and saved.
Delete/PostWhen there are two Sections with the same natural key and one is deleted, the other record will post with the remaining records data


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
Delete/Post

If any of the following changes in the Schools resource:

  • School ID: If the Ed-Fi School Number changes.
  • School ID: If the State School Number changes and the Ed-Fi School Number is NULL.
Delete/PostIf the Course Number changes.
Delete/PostIf the Session Name changes that the Course Offering is aligned to.
Delete/PostIf the  natural key changes all dependent resources will delete/post.
Dependent ResourcesSections, Staff Section Associations, Student Section Associations, Student Section Attendance Events, Grades


Scope Year Logic

This table describes scope year logic of this object.

Logic
Course Offerings will report to the configured year to which they are aligned.
Data will only send for years that have valid configuration.


Event Queue Detail

This table describes the Event Queue Detail of this object.

Campus TableEd-Fi ActionFields
coursePost/Put/DeleteThe primary table used for sending data for this resource.
sectionplacementPost/Put/DeleteThe primary table used for sending data for this resource.


Object Data Elements

This table describes data elements sent within the Course Offerings resource.

Data Element Label

Business Requirement

Business Rules

M, C or O

Data Source GUI Path

Database Field

idThe unique identifier of the resource.


M

localCourseCode The local code assigned by the LEA or Campus that identifies the organization of subject matter and related learning experiences provided for the instruction of students. 

Reports the Course Number from the Course.

MScheduling > Course > Numbercourse.number
courseReferenceA reference to the related Course resource.

This value is to be a combination of the courses State Code. Education Organization ID should report as the number '1'.


MIndex> Search> Course/Section> Course> State code
schoolReferenceA reference to the related School resource.

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


M

sessionReferenceA reference to the related Session resource.
  1. Reports the fields that are part of the Natural Key for the Session resource.
    • Term Descriptor will report based on section schedule placement of the sections of the course.
    • If Term Descriptor Override is checked and there is an existing mapping for the course, Term Descriptors will report based on the mappings per the section schedule placement of the sections of the course.
M

courseLevelCharacteristicsThe type of specific program or designation with which the course offering 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 level.

This is optional, does not report.

O

curriculumUsedAn unordered collection of courseOfferingCurriculumUseds. This entity represents an offering of a course by school during a session, representing the course catalog of available courses.

This is optional, does not report.

O

instructionalTimePlannedThe planned total number of clock minutes of instruction for this course offering.
  1. This fields collects the total number of minutes offered per course broken down by quarter:
    • Example: If a course is scheduled to occur for 50 minutes per class, and 87 classes per year, report 4350 for this field.
  2. Compare Scheduling > Course > Section >Section Schedule Placement with System Administration > Calendar > Calendar > Periods to get the  total minutes per day.
  3. Count all instructional days for the reporting period in System Administration > Calendar > Calendar > Days.
  4. Multiply the total minutes per day and instructional days for the instructionalTimePlanned value.
M
Scheduling > Course > Section >Section Schedule Placement

System Administration > Calendar > Calendar > Periods

System Administration > Calendar > Calendar > Days
localCourseTitleThe descriptive name given to a course of study offered in the school, if different from the CourseTitle.

Reports the Course Name.

OScheduling > Course > Namecourse.name
offeredGradeLevelsThe grade levels in which the course is offered. This collection should only be populated if it differs from the Offered Grade Levels identified at the Course level.

This is optional, does not report.

O

etagA unique system-generated value that identifies the version of the resource.

This is optional, does not report.

O


Previous Versions

Nebraska Ed-Fi Data v3.5 - Course Offerings [.2136 - .2227]