This object defines the attribute of a group of objects that implicitly or explicitly defines a subset of the group.

Key for aggregate characteristic information.

Describes the supercategory of the characteristic described in the Definition element below.

Examples
Sex
CulturalBackground
YearLevel
IndigenousStatus

Defines the aggregate characteristic information.

Examples
LBOTE
Male

Reference to SIF elements or external authority (e.g., StudentPersonal/PersonInfo/Demographics/Sex).

Examples
Dropout Status

This object is the actual value of the measurement. It is always associated with one statistic and one or more characteristics.

Reference to one or more AggregateCharacteristicInfo objects.

Reference to an AggregateCharacteristicInfo object.

Value of the fact.

This object defines the data that is being aggregated as well as the type of measurement that is being performed.

Key

Name of Aggregate Statistic

Examples
Total Enrollment
Diploma Recipients

Rule for calculating the aggregate statistic

Date for which the statistic is initially valid

Date after which the statistic is no longer valid

Rules for which statistic may not be reported.

Rule for which statistic may not be reported

System providing the data: i.e., SIS, Transportation,

Effective date of the statistic

Discontinue date of the statistic

Location where the activity takes place.

Type of the statistic.

The GUID that uniquely identifies this object.

Name of the test.

The state, local or publisher unique Id for the assessment.

Describes what type of assessment this represents.

This object represents an assessment event. It includes information related to the time of administration, place of administration, and unusual events related to the administration.

The GUID that uniquely identifies an instance of the object.

The RefId of the assessment form used in the assessment administration.

Special conditions or unusual events related to the administration event.

A text description of the special condition.

Examples
Fire drill during test.
Air conditioning broke during the request.
Assessment was given over three days instead of in one sitting.

This is the primary key for the list of special conditions.

In a Change event, this flag can be used to indicate an element has been deleted from the parent list container. At a minimum the key for the list must also be present.

Date and time the test is scheduled to be given.

Date and time testing begins.

Date and time testing ends.

Date and time test is due.

Address of the location where the administration takes place.

Optional reference to a staff person associated with the administration.

Optional reference to a school district associated with the administration.

Optional reference to a school associated with the administration.

Represents the unique set of questions or stimuli given to a set of test takers. A physical correlate of the assessment form is the test booklet given to students during an assessment. However, this object does not contain the questions, it only contains elements that describe the form for use in scoring the questions.

The GUID that uniquely identifies an instance of the object.

The RefId of the assessment related to this form.

Indicates whether this assessment (form) is a standard administration or alternate.

Text description for this particular arrangement of questions, etc.

Reference numbers for the form.

Reference number for the form.

Indicates the level of the form.

Examples
Year 3
Leveling System

The time period in which the form is intended to be administered.

Year levels this assessment is designed to evaluate.

Associated subtests (score types). Each form can provide scores in one or more subtest areas.

A subtest identified by RefId.

This object is designed to allow software systems to provide item detail information such as the stem of the item, the distractors, the stimuli, etc. This initial version of the object does not deal with presentation aspects of the item. Instead it focuses on the item content and characteristics needed to enable interoperability and the usage of item-level information in the improvement of learning and instruction.

This RefId points to the assessment form of which the item is a part.

A value that indicates the response type for the item. Note: the multiple-multiple choice value means that there is a multiple choice question, for which more than one choice is acceptable.

An item number or other identifier for the item. It may be used to indicate the order or grouping of items.

Name or short description of the item.

This object contains information related to curriculum standards statements "standards" or "benchmarks" or the like within the document. Each LearningStandardItemRefId reflects an individual standard statement and may occur at several levels within a hierarchially structured document.

A piece of content to be used by the test taker in responding to the stem. Examples include a reading passage, a video, a diagram, or a picture.

Note: The Stimulus element only is included when a Stem element exists.

The question, task, or statement that prompts a response from the test taker.

This complex element will not be included in the object if @ResponseType is:

• fill-in-the-blank
• short-answer
• essay

Other cases will be added in the future.

A choice number or other identifier for the choice. It may be used to indicate the order or grouping of the choices.

The text of the choice, such as true, 27, or Important economic and social factors.

A numeric value that indicates the amount of credit awarded for choosing the choice.

The maximum item score possible for this item.

The minimum item score possible for this item.

Performance Levels are an ordered set of categories that indicate the achievement level of a person on an assessment.

Defines cut scores for placing students in an appropriate performance level.

The name of the performance level.

Score bounds for the performance level.

The metric or scale used to report the scores.

Lower bound for the performance level.

Upper bound for the performance level.

A wrapper for any external standard that can define or transmit the content of an assessment.

The GUID that uniquely identifies an object instance in a zone.

Contains an arbitary XML element, encoded in UTF-8.

Contains an optional description of the content or a processing hint with regard to its structure (e.g. named standard, file layout or XSD).

This object represents the assignment of a specific assessment to be taken by a student.

The GUID that uniquely identifies an instance of the object.

The student associated with the registration.

The assessment administration associated with the registration.

Date/time assignment is made.

Records student-specific special conditions during the test.

A description of the special condition. Student special conditions are different from special conditions of the test.

A code indicating the type of special condition.

Year level of the student at the time of testing.

The Year or level at which the student is to be tested. This element should be omitted unless the student is being tested out-of-level.

The status of the student at the time of testing. The source of this information is meant to be the assessment system and not the student information system.

Person's gender.

The person's date of birth.

Optional reference to a district associated with the registration.

Optional reference to a school associated with the registration.

Optional reference to a staff person associated with the registration.

A psychological construct measured by the assessment. Operationally, a subtest is a class of scores on an assessment. Some assessments may have only one subtest or type of score but most assessments measure more than one psychological construct. The subtest can be based upon items in a section or items that are empirically related. Subtests can also be composites of other subtests that are combined using a particular algorithm. Examples of subtests of an assessment are math total, reading composite, total test, and English composition.

The GUID that uniquely identifies an instance of the object.

Text name of the subtest.

The metric or scale used to report the scores.

Lowest possible score value.

Highest possible score value.

Container for performance level elements.

Defines cut scores for placing students in appropriate performance levels.

The name of the performance level.

Score bounds for the performance level.

The metric or scale used to report the scores.

Lower bound for the performance level.

Upper bound for the performance level.

Content area covered by the score.

Year levels for which the score is valid.

References (possibly recursive) to other SIF AssessmentSubTests. This enables subtests or scores to be composites of other scores. If any references are given here, the score is a composite score. The list must be unique.

A reference to an AssessmentSubTest by RefId.

An integer that defines the level or tier of the score in a multi-level arrangement of composite scores. Zero indicates the highest or root level.

References to LearningStandardItems. The list must be unique.

A reference to a LearningStandardItem by RefId.

This is the short version of the name of the assessment that is often used for quick reference and used in reports.

The description element provides an opportunity to pass additional information about the assessment and also be used for describing elements in a test hierarchy.

This element records the number of items included on the assessment. This number may be different than the possible score.

Indicator describing the purpose of an AssessmentSubTest as being that of a container for the child AssessmentSubTests. There will be no scores within this subtest.

This object defines information related to a school calendar day in a given school calendar year. If both CalendarDate and CalendarSummary objects are supported, there must be an instance of this object for each date between CalendarSummary StartDate and EndDate, inclusive.

A specific school day that occurs within the school year.

The ID (GUID) of the calendar summary in which this calendar date is.

The ID (GUID) of the school for which this calendar information is being reported.

School year for which the information is applicable, expressed as the four-digit year in which the school year ends (e.g., "2009").

Calendar date type information.

Code indicating the type of school day.

Order in which the calendar date falls within the school calendar.

Information describing how the day relates to student attendance.

Designates whether this date should be counted toward student attendance.

Amount of the school day in which the student should be in attendance (Format is x.x; a student who should be in attendance a full day would be represented as 1.0). If CountsTowardAttendance equals Yes then AttendanceValue must be greater than zero.

Information describing how the day relates to teacher attendance.

Designates whether this date should be counted toward teacher attendance.

Amount of the school day in which the teacher should be in attendance (format is x.x; a teacher who should be in attendance a full day would be represented as 1.0).

Information describing how the day relates to administrator attendance.

Designates whether this date should be counted toward administrator attendance.

Amount of the school day in which the administrator should be in attendance (format is x.x; an administrator who should be in attendance a full day would be represented as 1.0).

This object provides a summary of a school's calendar information for a given school year. A school may have more than one calendar per school year (e.g., one calendar for Kindergarten students, one for special education students, one for seniors, or one for each calendar track), and each may have different days in session, start and end dates, minutes per day, instructional minutes, etc.

The ID (GUID) of the calendar to which this information relates.

The ID (GUID) of the school for which this calendar information is being reported.

School year for which the information is applicable, expressed as the four-digit year in which the school year ends (e.g., "2007").

The locally assigned identifier for this calendar.

Textual description of the school calendar.

The total number of days that the school was or is anticipated to be in session during the school year. Also included are days on which the education institution facility is closed and the student body as a whole is engaged in planned activities off-campus under the guidance and direction of staff members.

The first calendar date, whether or not instruction was provided. If both CalendarSummary and CalendarDate objects are supported, StartDate must be the date of the first chronological instance of CalendarDate for the school's calendar.

The last calendar date, whether or not instruction was provided. If both CalendarSummary and CalendarDate objects are supported, EndDate must be the last chronological instance of CalendarDate for the school's calendar.

The first day of student instruction.

The last day of student instruction (including days or times that students are present for purposes of testing and/or evaluation, but not including whole or part-days whose sole purposes is for distribution of report cards).

Date of graduation ceremony.

The total number of instructional minutes for this calendar for the school year.

The number of minutes in the day in which the school is normally in session.

Collection of year levels applicable to this school calendar.

This object allows a system that stores network identities and/or passwords to share them with other applications through SIF. The provider of the Identity object may only support providing an identity or a password, or it may support both.

The SIF RefId that uniquely identifies this object.

The SIF RefId of a StudentPersonal, StaffPersonal, or StudentContactPersonal object.

The type of SIF object that the SIF_RefId attribute identifies.

The type of source system that produced this Identity object.

See implementation notes for provider requirements.

The list of identity assertions for this user.

The identification string for this user.

The name of the field.

See implementation notes for details on required schema elements.

Examples
eduPersonPrincipalName
sAmAccountName

Allows a provider or publisher to specify the same password using multiple algorithms, if supported.

A representation of the user's password using the given algorithm.

The method used to encrypt the user's password. See the implementation details below.

The name of the key to be used for decryption of the password. Left blank for hash algorithms (MD5 and SHA1).

The globally unique person identifier that links together separate Identity objects which reference the same Person.

This object contains information about a school district or other Local Educational Agency (LEA).

The GUID of the LEA whose information this is.

The locally-assigned identifier for this LEA.

The state-assigned identifier for this LEA.

Commonwealth Identifier for this District (LEA).

Name of LEA.

URL for the LEA.

The classification of the education agency within the geographic boundaries of a state according to the level of administrative and operational control.

Code indicating the operational/administrative level.

Information on contact persons for this LEA.

Indicates whether or not this LEA contact's information should be published in a directory of LEA information.

The LEA's phone number(s).

The LEA's address(es).

Operational condition of a school.

Lower House area that the school/campus belongs to.

Statistical Local Area that the school/campus belongs to.

This object contains information related to learning resources that may be used in educational settings. These include textbooks, Internet content, educational software, videos and DVDs, supplemental print material, etc.

GUID assigned to this LearningResource.

The default language used in the LearningResource object.

Name of learning resource.

Name of organization or company that created the resource.

Contains contact information about resource authors.

Contains contact information about a resource author.

Name of contact person. Use the generic element Name.

Address of organization or company.

Phone number of organization or company.

The email of the organization or company.

Description of location of resource, i.e. location in library or URL, community resource, outside resource supplier.

A qualifying attribute for the Location payload. If ReferenceType is "URI", the payload contains a web address where the resource can be found.

Describes availability status of resource, e.g. "checked out."

Description of the resource, e.g., "This textbook is intended for year 4 social studies students and addresses..."

Resource media types.

MIME type [MIME] based on IANA registration (see RFC2048) or 'non-digital'.

Describes terms of use for resource.

A date that defines the date of agreement.

Authorizations to use this resource. For example, this resource may be included as part of the district's standard curriculum model.

A sub-element containing an authorization to use this resource. For example, this resource may be included as part of the district's standard curriculum model.

Name of agency that approved use of resource.

Date resource was approved.

Evaluations/review of the resource.

Evaluation/review of resource.

GUID assigned to an evaluation.

Description of evaluation of resource.

Date evaluation was performed

Name of individual who submitted evaluation.

Lesson or activity-sized portions of a resource.

A lesson or activity-sized portion of a resource.

Name of learning resource component within the resource, i.e. "Chapter 1, Section 4.

Description of where ResourceComponent is located within resource or in general, i.e. "Section 4, pages 32-38," or URL string, or whatever locator is appropriate for media.

Description of ResourceComponent, i.e. "Discover how changing the scale of a map can either increase or decrease the level of detail you see."

Teaching/learning strategies used in the learning resource.

Teaching/learning strategy used in the learning resource. One per element.

References from component to associated elements within another SIF object.

Reference from component to associated elements within another SIF object.

Attribute that identifies the type of SIF object being referenced.

References to LearningStandardItems.

Reference to a LearningStandardItem.

Reference to a LearningResourcePackage, a transport envelope for teaching and learning object files.

A curriculum standards document or the like published by a national, state, district, school site, professional association or other interested party. The LearningStandardDocument reflects an expectation of student work.

Id for the standards document

The default language of the text used for the content in the learning standard document.

Name of curriculum document, i.e., "NSW History Curriculum K-10."

Description of the standards document.

Description of the curriculum document that allows pictures as well as text..

Defines source of standard document. This is the descriptive type of the organization listed in Organization. It serves to describe the type of the standards contained within the document.

Name of organization represented by the document, i.e., "National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)," "ACARA"," NSW DET".

Name of the organization that authored the curriculum document, i.e. "ACARA May be the same as "Organization" above.

A brief description of how to contact the organization maintaining the standards. It could be a phone number, email address, or URL.

The date the current status was achieved.

The date the local organization adopted this standard document

The date the local organization stopped using this standard document and superseded by a new document.

This is the date that the governing organization retired this document. 

Copyright for document.

Copyright date

Name of the copyright holder

SIF common YearLevels element

Date document data was added to the repository

Link to the first/top LearningStandardItem in the standard hierarchy

Links to related LearningStandardDocument

GUID assigned to each statement at each level within the document hierarchy

The default language of the text used for the content in the LearningStandardItem.

Container for related resources.

A relationship between the item and an attached resource (e.g. learning resource, work sample).

Type of Resource.

The name of the state or organization that authored and manages updates to the curriculum document (i.e., ACARA, NSW DET).

This is the text version of the organization's name.

Description of hierarchical level within standards tree.

Integer assigned to each hierarchical level within standards tree. The top level is "1".

Used to describe what role this item is serving in the structure. Some documents describe their levels in terms of standard, strands, and topics. Others use standards, benchmarks, and indicators. In Australia, this is typically in terms of Course or Unit, Year Level, Outcomes. This attribute names the level of the item.

GUID assigned to the LearningStandardItem directly above it in the hierarchy tree. This is a repeatable element because a single granular item may relate to multiple parent levels of the hierarchy.

If the object has no parent, the ParentRefId should be the same as the object's RefId. The RefId in LearningStandardDocumentRefId will always point to the parent's LearningStandardDocument object.

An alphanumeric Id code as defined by the organization to identify the statement.

The text of the "outcome", "standard", or other element within the structured curriculum document

This element describes the unique identifier for each LearningStandard.

This represents the year that this specific learning standard was created. This is important to indicate as standards are updated to reflect the appropriate year it was created. This would be assigned and unique to the standard setting body.

This represents the subject or content area this curriculum item addresses. This would be assigned and unique to the curriculum setting body.

This is the specific number of the standard. For example, if the subject is mathematics and this standard is Patterns, Functions and Algebra, this would be StandardNumber 1. This would be assigned and unique to the standard setting body.

This represents the grade level(s) this specific learning standard will address. This may be addressed in different ways. Some states have a grade level that covers several grades and others have just one grade. This would be assigned and unique to the standard setting body.

This is the next level within the hierarchy of the learning standard. For example, if the subject is mathematics and the standard is algebra, this would be the next delineation - Represent an unknown quantity as a variable using a symbol, including letters. This would be assigned and unique to the standard setting body.

This is the specific year level. This is to be utilized if the YearLevel covers several years. This would be assigned and unique to the standard setting body.

This would be the most granular level of the learning standard associated with the grade level. Following the same example, an indicator for Algebra YearLevel 5-7, the indicator for the benchmark above at Year 6 would be to Evaluate simple expressions by replacing variables with given values, and use formulas in problem-solving situations. This would be assigned and unique to the standard setting body.

This element is for an organization to utilize for an internal code. This may be used for an alignment schema or other purposes that are only internal for the organization.

An alphanumeric Id code as defined by the organization to identify the statement.

Name of organization represented by the document, i.e., "National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)," "NSW," "ACARA." This is the name of the organization that has this AlternateIdentificationCode. This should be a text field.

The RefId of the item's parent LearningStandardDocument.

Container for external relationships.

A relationship between the current standard item and another standard item.

Type of the relationship between the current standard and the target standard. The value identifies the type of standard of the target item. The purpose of this information is to allow applications to sort/display these relationships in the appropriate context.

This is the second to most granular level of the learning or performance standard associated with the grade level.

This is the most granular level of the learning or performance standard associated with the grade level.

This object contains information about the person's picture.

The ID (GUID) that uniquely identifies the picture.

The GUID of the personal object to which this picture is linked

The name of the object reference.

School year for which this enrollment is applicable, expressed as the four-digit year in which the school year ends (e.g. 2007).

This element defines the picture. If the Type attribute is URL, this is the location of the picture in [JPEG] format; if Type is JPEG, this is the [JPEG] image data encoded using the Base64 Content-Transfer-Encoding defined in Section 6.8 of [RFC 2045].

The way the picture is specified.

Can the picture be published?

This object contains information on authorities that provide ReportManifest objects and/or collect SIF_ReportObject objects, such as state departments of education, regional service agencies, or other report collecting agencies.

The unique identifier for this agency/report authority.

Name of the agency/report authority.

The zone unique case-sensitive identifier for the authority. This will be the contents of the SIF_SourceId element in the header of requests for reports.

Department, office, or subdivision of the agency/report authority.

Level of the authority.

Information on the contact person in this agency.

This object provides a way to define a report within a SIF zone. It contains metadata about the report. This object represents a mutual agreement between senders and receivers of the report.

The unique identifier for this report manifest.

ID (GUID) of the authority providing this manifest.

Specifies which SIF Implementation Specification version should be used when returning the report data; wildcards are allowed. When a wildcard is specified, the responding agent SHOULD attempt to return the report data in the version specified by SIF_Message/@Version, if that version matches the wildcard version. If not, the responding agent can return the data in any version it chooses that matches the wildcard version.

Specifies the maximum size of a packet to be returned to the report authority.

The GUID of the authority for whom the report is intended, usually the same authority that defines this manifest.

The name of the object referenced.

The authority's accepted name for the report.

The description for the report.

Information on the period of time over which the report spans.

The first date for which the report contains information.

The last date for which the report contains information. May be the same as BeginReportDate for snapshot-type reports.

The first date on which the report may be submitted to the authority.

The last date on which the report may be submitted to the authority.

The official due date of the report.

Indicates where the report definition can be found. If Type is Embedded or Base64Binary, this element's value contains the report definition. If Type is URL, this element's value is the location of the external definition. A Type value of SIF_Query indicates that the SIF_QueryGroup element contains the definition.

This attribute indicates the source of the report definition.

The vendor-defined query language used in the report definition (e.g. SQL, ExampleObject, Description, com.vendor.format, etc.). If the Type attribute is SIF_Query, then QueryLanguage should also be SIF_Query. If the Type attribute is SIF_ExtendedQuery, then QueryLanguage should also be SIF_ExtendedQuery.

An optional list of one or more third-party formats that describe the visual representation of the report data. If more than one report format is associated with a manifest, the implementation can choose the most applicable format by examining the ContentType attribute.

A third-party format that describes the visual representation of the report data.

This attribute indicates the encoding of the format reference.

The vendor-defined content type (e.g. com.vendor.format, PDF, etc.

Parent element containing the querying criteria for extracting the report information if ReportDefinitionSource/@Type is SIF_Query.

Query criteria for extracting the report information if ReportDefinitionSource/@Type is SIF_ExtendedQuery.

This object tracks resource usage by a student or staff member at a school over a defined time period.

The SIF RefId that uniquely identifies this object.

SIF RefId that identifies the school providing the resource being tracked.

Information about the ResourceUsage.

Codeset for type of resource being tracked.

Local description of type of resource being tracked.

Definitions of the values given in ResourceReportList/ ResourceReport/ ReportRow.

Definition of a single value given in ResourceReportList/ ResourceReport/ ReportRow; the value definitions in ReportColumnList appear in the same order as they do in ReportRow.

Name of a ReportRow value.

Description of a ReportRow value.

Delimiter separating this ReportRow value from the next; is assumed by default to be “,”, with CSV parsing rules.

List of resource reports, one per user.

The type of SIF object that the ReportUserRefId attribute identifies.

Starting date for reporting period of resource usage.

End date for reporting period of resource usage.

Current cost of reported resource usage.

Key of report-specific values, defined in ReportColumn

This object contains all of the information about a school's room. This object may contain a reference to a room type so that it may represent anything from a gym, cafeteria, to a standard classroom. The StaffList element usually contains the homeroom teacher.

GUID that identifies this room.

GUID that identifies the school that this room belongs to.

Room number as presented to the user/application.

GUID that identifies the staff person assigned to this room (e.g. the homeroom teacher).

Friendly name that can be assigned to the room (e.g. Staff Cafeteria).

Extra building information. In the future Building could become its own object in which case this element will need to be changed to a RefId. Currently it is only required as a free text field.

When a room is designated as a homeroom it may have a different number. Usually blank when room is not a homeroom.

Size in square meters.

Number of persons (usually students) that this room can hold.

Phone number for the room

This object is for course information.

All local ids in non-authoritative objects are optional. It is therefore up to the provider and the actual agent's design and choreography to determine whether or not to use or local ids from parent objects. There are cases in some subscribing systems where it might not possible to add RefId columns and therefore the RefId of related objects cannot be stored. For example a target system that listens to TimeTableSubject events and updates them may not be able to store the associated SchoolCourseInfoRefId with that object. The only way it can link the TimeTableSubject object with the appropriate course might be through its local course id. Having local ids that link the parent objects with the child object can simplify the agent design. Generally it is suggested to use the appropriate RefIds whenever possible and only use local ids if there is no other way to use RefIds.

The ID (GUID) that uniquely identifies the school course.

The ID (GUID) that identifies the school where the course is offered.

The locally-assigned identifier for this school/campus.

School year for which the information is applicable, expressed as the four-digit year in which the school year ends (e.g. 2007).

The ID (GUID) that uniquely identifies this TermInfo (reportable time period). Either SchoolYear or TermInfoRefId must be provided.

School-defined local code for the course.

State-defined standard course code used to report information about courses.

The corresponding district course code.

Subject matter areas.

Title of the course.

Textual description of the course.

An indication of the general nature and difficulty of instruction provided.

The number of credits awarded upon course completion.

Does the course meet the state definition of a core academic course?

Does the state require that the course be completed for graduation?

Department with jurisdiction over this course.

Description of course content.

This object contains information about the school.

The GUID that identifies this school.

The locally-assigned identifier for this school.

The state-assigned identifier for this school.

Commonwealth identifier for this school/campus.

Name of school/campus.

The ID (GUID) that references the school district of which this school is a member.

The ID (GUID) of another related education agency, such as a regional service agency.

The name of the object reference.

The school district of which this school/campus is a member. Equivalent to DEECD Region.

The school district Local ID. This should be the same as the LocalId in the LEAInfo if LEAInfo details are supplied.

An indication of the level of the educational institution.

List containing the education focus codes of the campus/school.

The type of educational institution as classified by its focus.

URL for the school.

List of contact emails for the school.

Information about the campus or school principal.

A list of contact persons associated with a school.

The school's addresses.

The school's phone numbers.

Code that specifies the session type.

List of year levels offered by the school.

Operational condition of a school.

Australian Federal Electorate.

Optional campus details.

Campus ID - Needs to be considered as part of school. Different campus' have different addresses.

Type of campus.

Is this campus the Admin Campus?

(Government, or Non-Government).

Indicator as to whether school is an independent school (as opposed to government or catholic school).

Used to clarify a non-government school's systemic status. Either Systemic or Non-Systemic.

System if a systemic school.

Religious affiliation (if any).

School Location from MCEETCYA.

LocalGovernmentArea that that school/campus is located in.

Lower House area that the school/campus belongs to.

Statistical Local Area that the school/campus belongs to.

Gender of student population.

Is this school a Boarding School?

Opening date of entity.

Closing date of entity. This element is allowed to be omitted and/or null.

Repeatable element containing a local identifier to identify a loosely connected group of schools. eg. YarraValley Cluster

GUID that identifies the school offering this program.

List of School Programs

Program Category

Program Type

This object provides the link between Period Attendance and the school's timetable. It allows subject and teaching group information to be communicated to/from the attendance system.

This object provides information about the session the specific instance of a timetable cell for against which the attendance is recorded. (Please note, the TimeTableCell object represents a session scheduled in a timetable. There may be many SessionInfo objects for the same TimeTableCell each for a different week/fortnight, depending on the length of the timetable schedule. Attendance is recorded against the SessionInfo object.

The ID (GUID) of the school for which this attendance information is being reported.

The (GUID) of the piece of Curriculum (TT Grid) scheduled

School year for which the information is applicable, expressed as the four-digit year in which the school year ends (e.g., "2007").

Session Local Identifier

TimeTableSubject Local Identifier

Teaching Group Local Identifier

School Local Identifier

Staff Local Identifier

Room number as presented to the user or application. Needs to be provided if changed from TimeTableCell.

Day Id

Period Id within the Day Id

Date of Session

Optional Start Time

Optional End Time

Was the Roll Marked for this Period?

This object is an envelope used to send other data objects, typically reports, to authorities such as state departments of education, district offices, other schools, etc. It is also used to signal a data collector agent that a report is compiled and ready to be requested. SIF_ReportObject contains a data object, which is either complete or partial (a partial data object is one that contains a subset of the elements for the data object). One or a series of SIF_ReportObjects contained within one or a series of related SIF_Response messages makes up a complete report.

The ID (GUID) that uniquely identifies this instance of a report.

Identifies the manifest for the report and characteristics of the submission. This element is a conditional element. This element, the ReportData element, or the SIF_ExtendedQueryResults element is included but never more than one at the same time within an instance of this object. See examples of the usage of the object below.

The report manifest corresponding to this report.

The date on which the report was calculated.

A number that identifies the submission; beginning at 1 and incremented each time a submission is done for a particular report; used to indicate resubmission(s).

Reason for the report submission.

Identifies the submitter of the report.

This element is conditional depending on the context in which the SIF_ReportObject is used. It must be present in the ReportInfo element when a SIF_ReportObject is sent to a report authority in a SIF_Event message. However, its presence is optional in SIF_ReportObject packets delivered to report authorities in SIF_Response messages.

If the submitter is described by another SIF data object such as a SchoolInfo or LEAInfo instance, this element references that object by RefId.

The name of a SIF data object. When used in the context of ReportSubmitterInfo, this attribute must have one of the following values.

Name of the report submitter.

This is a descriptive string that names the entity submitting the SIF_ReportObject to the report authority. It could be the name of an agency, a district, a school, the SIF_SourceId of the submitting agent, or any other string that a report authority could use to identify the submitter of a report. This element may be present regardless of the presence of the SIF_RefId and SIF_RefObject elements. When those elements are used, it is recommended that collector agents reproduce the name of the LEA or school here.

Department, office, or subdivision of the agency submitting the report.

Information on the contact person in this agency submitting the report.

Optional notes for the report authority, such as information about a district's reporting policies and procedures, instructions for contacting the district for technical support, etc.

Container element for the report content; one valid SIF object can occur as a child here. This element is conditional. This element or ReportInfo or SIF_ExtendedQueryResults is included but never at the same time. See examples of the usage of the object below.

The report content resulting from a SIF_ExtendedQuery-based report. This element is conditional. This element or ReportInfo or ReportData is included but never at the same time.

This object defines information related to a staff member's assignment(s); commonly, this will be a school assignment.

The GUID that uniquely identifies a particular staff assignment.

The ID (GUID) that identifies the school where the staff member is assigned.

School year for which the information is applicable, expressed as the four-digit year in which the school year ends (e.g., 2007). Release 1.2 allows this to be optional as JobStart and EndDate allow for this Object to be used over more than one year.

ID (GUID) of this staff member, as represented in the StaffPersonal object. 

Short assignment description

Is this the staff member's primary assignment? Note: There must be one and only one instance of the object with a Yes value in this element per school year.

This is the date from which the staff assignment is valid (inclusive).

This is the date through which the staff assignment is valid (inclusive).

Full-time job equivalent ratio for this assignment. (Format is x.xx; an employee who is full-time and who is 50% of their time on this assignment would be represented as 0.50)

The purpose of the activities as related to students.

Subject(s) Staff member is eligible to teach.

This element contains Staff subjects they are eligible to teach together with the teaching preference.

Priority of Subject to Teach.

Local Subject Id

RefId of TimeTableSubject

The purpose of the Teacher's role as related to students. Equivalent to 'JobFunction' in US Object.

Code representing the type of staff activity undertaken.

Year level(s) that the teacher is allowed to teach.

Is this teacher a casual relief teacher CRT?

The name of the homegroup the staff member is assigned to.

The name of the house the staff member is assigned to.

This object contains all the personal information relating to a staff member, who might be a teacher or other employee of the school or district.

The GUID of the staff member.

The locally-assigned identifier for this staff member.

The state-assigned identifier for this staff member.

Electronic identifier(s) associated with this entity.

Lists all "other" identifiers associated with the staff member.

Lists an "other" identifier associated with the staff member.

Code that defines the type of this other ID.

Personal Information

The staff member's title.

Status of staff member within employing organisation.

Co-curricular or extra-curricular activities (e.g., student organizations, inter-school sports, athletics, publications, band, orchestra, and service activities) in which students may participate.

Name of the co-curricular or extra-curricular activity.

The description of the co-curricular or extra-curricular activity.

Information regarding the co-curricular or extra-curricular activity.

Code identifying the co-curricular or extra-curricular activity.

A description of the separation of level in the activity (e.g.,House, Inter-school, Club, State, National).

Collection of grade levels applicable to this co-curricular or extra-curricular activity.

An indication of the degree to which an activity is related to a student's curriculum.

Location where the activity takes place.

GUID that identifies the student participating in the activity.

GUID that identifies the activity in which the student participates.

School year for which the information is applicable, expressed as the four-digit year in which the school year ends (e.g., "2009").

Comment related to the student's participation in the activity.

This is the date which the activity participation is valid (inclusive).

This is the date through which the activity participation is valid (inclusive). If element is supported by the publisher/responder, should contain a date if the student withdraws from the activity before the end of the school year.

Specific role the student plays in the activity (e.g., band leader, student body president).

List of awards and other types of recognition given to the student for this activity.

The nature of recognition given to the student for the successful completion of work in a co-curricular or extra-curricular activity.

This object provides a summary of a student's daily attendance and membership information for a given school during the time period between the StartDate and EndDate, inclusive. As such, there may be multiple instances of this object for a student in a school over the course of a school year.

The ID (GUID) of the student for whom this attendance information is being reported.

The ID (GUID) of the school for which this attendance information is being reported.

School year for which the information is applicable.

Starting date of this attendance reporting period.

Ending date of this attendance reporting period.

Number of the school day represented in StartDate.

Number of the school day represented in EndDate.

Full time equivalent numeric value of the student's course load during this attendance period, expressed in decimal form, where 1.00 represents a full time enrollment.

The number of days the student attended school when school was in session between the StartDate and EndDate, inclusive.

The number of days the student was absent from school with a valid excuse when school was in session between the StartDate and EndDate, inclusive.

The number of days the student was absent from school without a valid excuse when school was in session between the StartDate and EndDate, inclusive.

The number of days the student was tardy when school was in session between the StartDate and EndDate, inclusive.

The number of days the student was present plus the number of days the student was absent when school was in session during the period between the StartDate and EndDate, inclusive.

The locally-assigned identifier for this person. Note: LocalId may be used as a unique person identifier rather than a unique contact identifier. In this case there may be more than one StudentContactPersonal instance with the same LocalId.

Lists all "other" identifiers associated with the student.

Lists an "other" identifier associated with the student.

Code that defines the type of this other ID.

Personal Information

Code that defines employment type. This is compulsory for Parents or Guardians of the Student.

The highest level of education completed by the contact person.

This reflects the level of the Contact’s Non-School Education.

Defines the relationship of the contact to the student.

Confirms whether or not this contact defined in the relationship is to be tracked for MCEECDYA Data Implementation Manual Reporting.

Repeatable element containing the ID of a household.

Contains Yes/No characteristics of the contact person's role. Provide a Yes value for all that apply. At least one of the child elements of ContactFlags must have a Yes value. Do not publish the StudentContactRelationship instance if one of the child elements does not have a Yes value.

Does the individual have parental or legal guardianship responsibility for the student?

This element tells whether or not the contact has pickup rights.

Does the student live with this contact?

Does this contact have access to the student's records?

In particular, should this contact receive a copy of the student report?

Should this contact be notified in case of emergency?

Does this contact have or share custody of the student?

Is this person to be contacted in case of disciplinary action?

Should this contact be notified in case of attendance issue?