Organization Calendars

This category represents information about organization calendars including calendar dates, terms, and grading periods. The Organization Calendars category includes the following data views and resources:

Note: Organization Calendars resources are only published for public schools.

Grading Periods

This view captures the grading periods defined at each school within the district. The published view layout provides the School Name, Name of Term, First Day of Term, Last Day of Term, Last Publish Date, and Publishing ID.

gradingPeriods

This resource represents the time span for which grades are reported.

Note: Grades are not published at this time; however, gradingPeriods are needed to complete the Ed-Fi calendar structure

Primary PowerSchool Source Data

[Terms]
[Calendar_Day]

Selection Criteria

Records are published if the following criteria are met:

The school must not be excluded from state reporting.
The school must have an Ed-Fi State School number.
The school must have a WISEdata Reporting option.
The term or term portion associated with the grading period exists within the year for the Term selected in the PowerSchool UI.

Resource Output

A separate gradingPeriod record is published for each unique term at each school.
The gradingPeriod resource is not dependent on the prior publishing of other Ed-Fi resources.
LEAs and Schools may upload (publish) data to the Ed-Fi ODS in real time or on-demand (“Run Now” button).

Note: Click Export to export the data collection results to an Excel spreadsheet.

Data Element	Description	[Table]Data Type	Stored in [Table]Field	Req’d
schoolReference A reference to the related School resource.				R
/schoolID	The school for which the grading period is defined.	Integer	SchoolId downloaded from State Derived from: [S_WI_SCH_X]EdFi_StateSchoolNumber, or if this field is blank then [Schools]Alternate_School_Number] if greater than 0 Otherwise, [Schools]School_Number	R
descriptor	The name of the grading period during the school year in which the grade is offered. For example, First Semester, First Nine Weeks, etc.	String	Derived from: [Terms]Portion [Terms]Abbreviation	R
beginDate	The month, day, and year of the first day of the GradingPeriod.	Date	[Terms]FirstDay Format:'YYYY-MM-DD'	R
totalInstructionalDays	The total days available for educational instruction during the grading period.	Integer	Count of [Calender_Day]Date_Value If the date value falls between [Terms].FirstDay and [Terms].LastDay and [Calender_Day]InSession = 1	R
endDate	The month, day, and year of the last day of the grading period.	Date	[Terms]LastDay Format:'YYYY-MM-DD'	R
periodSequence	The sequential order of this period relative to other periods.	Integer	If [Terms]Portion = 1: '1' Otherwise, derived from [Terms]Abbreviation	O

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Sessions (Terms)

This data view represents the prescribed span of time when an education institution is open, instruction is provided, and students are under the direction and guidance of teachers and/or education institution administration. The published view layout provides the School Name, Year, Name of Term, First Day of Term, Last Day of Term, Last Publish Date, and Publishing ID.

sessions

This entity represents the prescribed span of time when an education institution is open, instruction is provided and students are under the direction and guidance of teachers and/or education institution administration. A session may be interrupted by one or more vacations.