The work assigned to students, an educational event planned by a teacher to deliver a particular educational concept or skill.

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

Descriptive name of the activity.

Description and context for the activity.

List of Operating system, network, and other technical requirements for the activity, if applicable.

an operating system, network, or other technical requirement.

Contains information about required software.

Contains information about a specific required piece of software.

This is the title of the specific software. This does not include the vendor. For example, Flash not Adobe.

This includes the version of the specific software.

This is the vendor of the specific software. For example, Adobe.

This is the operating system and version. For example, Macintosh OS X 1.4.

Essential materials required to engage in this activity.

Essential material required to engage in this activity.

Educational objectives of the activity.

Description of an educational objective of the activity.

Associated LearningStandardItem objects.

Link from activity to associated LearningStandardItem object.

Skills or competencies the student must have to engage in activity.

Skill or competency the student must have to engage in activity.

Links to any students or group or category of students that this activity is for.

Link to a student.

Source objects assigned to students.

GUID assigned to the source object.

The type of learning object the source object is.

Number of possible points for an activity.

Time structures for the activity.

Creation date of the activity.

Time required to complete the activity.

Unit of time of the Duration value. 

Date activity is started.

Date activity is finished.

Date activity is due.

Link to the SIF Assessment object containing the evaluation information for this activity.

How many tries allowed.

The percentage weight of the activity during the particular course or term.

Field for non-numeric types of grading and evaluation such as "narrative."

A qualifer for what type of evaluation this is. Valid values are "Inline" and "RefId". Inline values are contained in the optional Description element, RefIds are contained in the AssessmentRefId element.

A free text description of the evaluation to be used for this activity

Learning resources that support this activity.

A GUID reference to a SIF LearningResource object that supports this activity

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

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 a statistical 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.

An optional ID (GUID) for this day date of the calendar information that is being reported. This GUID would be used to form a REST URL.

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.

ChargedLocationInfo represents a location in a school system. It can be used to associate accounts and purchase orders with particular schools or other cost centres.

The SIF unique identifier for the location.

Defines whether the location is a school or a non-school location.

Specific site category.

Examples
Prep Site
Satellite
Central Kitchen
Warehouse
Storage
Central Office
Other

Text name of the location.

Description about the location.

The locally-assigned identifier for this location.

The state-assigned identifier for this location.

A ChargedLocationInfo instance could be related to another ChargedLocationInfo. This element will help create that relation.

The RefId of a corresponding SchoolInfo object.

This element has the ChargedLocationInfo address information.

The location's phone numbers.

This object is used to capture general information about debtors.

Debtor Id.

Id of the entity referred to by this object (e.g., student, employee, organization).

SIF object referenced by BilledEntity.

Addresses of the debtor to be used for billing. These addresses override any addresses found in the Billed Entity.

Name of the entity to be used for billing (e.g. company name rather than individual name).

Note about billing requirements.

Any discount amount applicable to this debtor (e.g. family discount for scholarship, number of children enrolled). Is a percentage.

This object represents any resource object that is not already described in SIF AU by an existing object (such as RoomInfo or LearningResource). It is intended for use with ResourceBooking, so it can represent any bookable resource; but it is not limited to that usage. While the obvious type of equipment described for booking purposes are things like computers and projectors, the types of equipment that can be booked depends on the educational organisation, and can easily extend to things like vehicles or animals.

Name of the equipment.

Description of the equipment.

The Local Id of the equipment.

Asset number of the equipment; may be distinct from Local Id.

The SIF RefId of the invoice for the equipment.

The SIF RefId of the purchase order for the equipment.

Type of equipment.

The SIF RefId of the owner/location of the equipment.

The type of SIF object that the SIF_RefId element identifies.

This object communicates information about a financial account.

GUID that identifies this financial account.

Identifier of a parent account of the account. Can be used to construct a hierarchical tree of nesting accounts, e.g. "Revenue" -- "Revenue-Grant" -- "Revenue-Grant-Commonwealth".

Location associated with the account".

Account number used for ledger.

Name of the account.

Description of the account.

The class of the account

Account creation date.

Account creation time.

This object provides information about a particular assignment, allows applications to synchronize each other's assignment tables, gathers the definition for a GradingAssignmentScore object, etc.

A GUID that identifies an instance of this object.

The GUID for the TeachingGroup object in which this assignment has been set.

The Id (GUID) that uniquely identifies the School in which this assignment has been set.

A particular grading category for the assignment, used to provide grouping and type information.

The text-based description of the assignment.

The points possible on the assignment.

Creation date of the assignment.

Date the assignment is due.

The weight of the assignment.

How many attempts the student is allowed on the assignment (applicable particularly to online activities).

The location of the document that describes the assignment. If Type is PDF, this element will contain the Base64 encoding of the entire document. Preferred against DetailedDescriptionBinary for online assessment.

The Base64 encoding of a document (e.g. PDF) describing the assignment.

This object provides score information about a particular assignment.

A GUID that identifies an instance of this object.

The GUID for the student whose score this is.

The Local Id for the student whose score this is.

The GUID for the TeachingGroup object in which this assignment has been set.

The Id (GUID) that uniquely identifies the School in which this assignment has been set.

The grading assignment for which this is a score.

The score represented as points. Conditionally required that one or more of ScorePoints, ScorePercent or ScoreLetter must be filled in. For online assignments, ScorePoints should be used to the exclusion of other scores.

The score represented as a percent. Conditionally required that one or more of ScorePoints, ScorePercent or ScoreLetter must be filled in.

The score represented as a letter grade. Conditionally required that one or more of ScorePoints, ScorePercent or ScoreLetter must be filled in.

Text description of the score.

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 an amount to be invoiced to an outside entity (typically a creditor or debtor). This object can include school fees. The object is also used for payments to an outside entity (using debit amounts), where those payments are not for goods and services (PurchaseOrder object): e.g. credit notes, reimbursements, rebates.

GUID for this transaction. The application that owns this object is responsible for generating this unique Id.

Id of the entity being billed for this billing activity.

RefId of SIF object referenced by Invoiced Entity.

Invoice number assigned locally by the system issuing the invoice.

Date of the transaction.

Description of the transaction.

Gross amount to be billed, including any tax. Can be credit (e.g. for family credit notes, reimbursements, rebates).

The associated ledger for this transaction

Id of the location billed for this billing activity.

Net amount billed, excluding any tax. Should be BilledAmount minus TaxAmount.

Rate of tax included in the billed amount.

Tax type (e.g. G11 vs NP6)

Amount of tax included in the billed amount

Authority or person who created the invoice

Authority or person who approved the invoice

Details of items invoiced (free text)

Due date for payment.

Suggested minimum class size for this subject.

The chart of account codes associated with the invoice.

The accounting period against which the transaction is billed.

An invoice purchase order related to this invoice (e.g. an invoice raised for the delivery of goods on a purchase order).

Listing of line items from original purchase order. Included to indicate any variation between the items, item cost, or item quantity ordered, and what has been delivered.

Contains information about the item delivered.

Vendor item number.

Description of the item.

Quantity delivered.

Unit cost of the item.

Whether the billing is voluntary (applies to some school fees).

This object is used to adjust balances between accounts. It is typically used to correct chart of account coding errors (e.g. created invoices for parents against the maths chart of account code when it should have been English).

Journal Id.

RefId of account to debit.

RefId of account to credit.

RefId of the originating transaction which requires adjustment. This could be an Invoice, PaymentReceipt or PurchaseOrder.

Amount to transfer between the two accounts.

Original GST code for journal transfer (if required).

Replacement GST code for journal transfer (if required).

Note about the journal.

Date on which journal was created.

Date on which journal was approved.

Authority or person who created the journal.

Authority or person who approved the journal.

This object contains information about a school district, region, or other Local, State or Jurisdiction Educational Authority.

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 Entity.

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 by and unique to the standard setting body.

This represents the subject or content area this curriculum item addresses. This would be assigned by 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 by 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 by 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 by 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 by 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 by 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 complements the Invoice object, and contains information about the payment of a Invoice object.

GUID for this payment or receipt. The application that owns this object is responsible for generating this unique Id.

Type of transaction.

A pointer back to the Invoice object corresponding to this payment. Is omitted for general ledger transactions, creditor receipts and debtor payments.

A pointer back to the vendor associated with the Invoice object, if applicable.

A pointer back to the debtor associated with the Invoice object, if applicable.

Id of the location billed for this transaction.

Date transaction was made.

Amount received.

Memo transaction Id from other vendor software.

GUID for the FinancialAccount associated with this payment.

Description of the transaction.

Rate of tax included in the billed amount.

Amount of tax included in the billed amount.

Method through which transaction was made (e.g. cash, credit card). If a receipt is made using two receipt methods (e.g. $20 in cash and $80 on credit), two PaymentReceipt objects are expected to be created, rather than a single object with mixed receipt method.

The cheque number issued, if paying creditors by cheque.

Note about the receipt or payment.

The accounting period against which the transaction is billed.

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 provides information down to the line item level for purchase orders.

Transaction GUID for this purchasing activity. The application that owns this object and is responsible for generating this unique Id.

Purchase order number.

This object references the VendorInfo object being billed.

The location Id for this purchasing activity.

The employee Id for the originator of this purchasing activity.

Contains information about the item being purchased.

Vendor item number.

Description of the item.

Quantity ordered.

Unit cost of the item.

Total cost of the item.

Quantity delivered to date.

Indicates that the line item in the purchase order is a cancellation of a previous order, to prevent it from remaining outstanding. For example, if 10 widgets have been ordered, and only 7 widgets have been delivered, a new purchase order can be issued for 3 widgets; enabling this flag indicates that the order for the remaining 3 widgets is to be cancelled.

Rate of tax included in the billed amount for the item.

Account that is to be charged for the item.

Account code charged to this item.

Amount charged to this account.

Account being charged.

Accounting period for the charge.

Date on which purchase order was created.

Rate of tax included in the billed amount.

Amount of tax included in the billed amount.

Total amount billed.

Date on which the object was last updated.

Flag that order has been fully delivered.

Original purchase order that this purchase order updates (e.g. to cancel line items).

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 represents a booking for any resource for a single contiguous time period. This could be either a room or another resource, such as equipment.

The ID (GUID) of the resource being booked. Provided only if the resource being booked is a SIF object with a GUID.

The type of SIF object that the ResourceRefId element identifies.

The Local Id of the resource being booked. Provided whether the resource is a SIF object or not.

Starting date and time for booking.

Finish date and time for booking.

Starting period for booking. If specified, the booking is intended to align with bell times.

Finish period for booking. If specified, the booking is intended to align with bell times.

Indicates who booked the room. Points to a StaffPersonal record. This will normally (but not necessarily) be the teacher who will be occupying the room.

A free-text explanation of the reason for the room booking.

Links the room-booking to a ScheduledActivity.

If ScheduledActivity is provided, 'true' means the booker wishes to retain all rooms already specified for the ScheduledActivity. 'false' means that room(s)/resources are now available for other uses.

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