Appendix A: Common Types

AbstractContentPackageType used as an element rather than an object, omitting RefId, SIF_Metadata and SIF_ExtendedElements.

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). Contents may be mandated in instances of this type, or types that follow the AbstractContentPackageType pattern.

Contains arbitrary text, encoded in UTF-8.

Optional MIME type to specifically indicate the text type. Otherwise text/plain can be assumed.

Optional file name to indicate the file from which the content originated, or to suggest a name to use when saving the content.

Contains an optional description of the content or a processing hint with regard to its structure (e.g. named standard, file layout or XSD). Contents may be mandated in instances of this type, or types that follow the AbstractContentPackageType pattern.

Contains the base64Binary encoding of binary or text data not encoded in UTF-8.

MIME type to indicate the content type.

Optional file name to indicate the file from which the content originated, or to suggest a name to use when saving the content.

Contains an optional description of the content or a processing hint with regard to its structure (e.g. named standard, file layout or XSD). Contents may be mandated in instances of this type, or types that follow the AbstractContentPackageType pattern.

References external content via a URL.

MIME type to indicate the content type to be expected when retrieving the external content.

Contains an optional description of the content or a processing hint with regard to its structure (e.g. named standard, file layout or XSD). Contents may be mandated in instances of this type, or types that follow the AbstractContentPackageType pattern.

Location of external content.

An abstract type for derived content package types, elements and objects. This structure may be used verbatim, optionally extending with additional attributes, or may be redefined to include only a subset of child elements and/or to add validation to XML contained in XMLData. Only one instance of XMLData, TextData, BinaryData or Reference can occur in a single instance.

The GUID that uniquely identifies an instance of the package.

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). Contents may be mandated in instances of this type, or types that follow the AbstractContentPackageType pattern.

Contains arbitrary text, encoded in UTF-8.

Optional MIME type to specifically indicate the text type. Otherwise text/plain can be assumed.

Optional file name to indicate the file from which the content originated, or to suggest a name to use when saving the content.

Contains an optional description of the content or a processing hint with regard to its structure (e.g. named standard, file layout or XSD). Contents may be mandated in instances of this type, or types that follow the AbstractContentPackageType pattern.

Contains the base64Binary encoding of binary or text data not encoded in UTF-8.

MIME type to indicate the content type.

Optional file name to indicate the file from which the content originated, or to suggest a name to use when saving the content.

Contains an optional description of the content or a processing hint with regard to its structure (e.g. named standard, file layout or XSD). Contents may be mandated in instances of this type, or types that follow the AbstractContentPackageType pattern.

References external content via a URL.

MIME type to indicate the content type to be expected when retrieving the external content.

Contains an optional description of the content or a processing hint with regard to its structure (e.g. named standard, file layout or XSD). Contents may be mandated in instances of this type, or types that follow the AbstractContentPackageType pattern.

Location of external content.

A list of subject areas.

Subject matter of a student's study as codified under the Australian Curriculum.

Subject matter.

Subject matter.

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.

A list of Address elements.

The street element is a complex element and breaks the street down into several parts. (Allow for PO Box here)

Address line 1.

Address line 2.

Address line 3.

Name of the complex.

The address number assigned to the building.

Street prefix like NE

The name of the street.

The type of street. For example, Lane, Blvd., Ave., etc.

Street suffix like SW.

Type of apartment, for example, Suite.

Apartment number prefix.

The number of the apartment.

Apartment number suffix.

This element contains address data.

Code that defines the location of the address. Note: A subset of specific valid values for each instance in a data object may be listed in that object.

A facet of Address

Date the address became active.

Date the address ceases to be active.

The street element is a complex element and breaks the street down into several parts. (Allow for PO Box here)

The city part of the address.

The state or province code. StateTerritory Code only applicable if an Australian Address. Conditional- If Australian Address this is mandatory.

The country code.

The ZIP/postal code.

The location of the address.

A Map Reference in x-y co-ordinates.

UHF Radio frequency or channel used for contact eg: 477MHz or CH60

This element is used to describe a Community that is associated with the instance of the address.

This is the LocalId of the specific address if it can be provided.

This is the GUID generated by the Provider system. Where it is available to be provided, the globally unique identifier links together separate instances of the Address Common Element which reference the same physical address.

When it can be provided, it can be used by subsribing systems to connect addresses from different personal objects.

A list of Statistical Areas assoicated with an address that will be referenced back to ABS 1270. Only applicable to a physical address, e.g. not relevant for a Post Office Box.

Personal Needs and Preferences Code(s) applied.

Booklet Type to be used for the NAP test as an adjustment. Values: Braille.

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.

This is an alert message that is associated with the student.

This is an alert message that is associated with the student.

This attribute specifies what type of alert message this is.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Code that describes the absence/attendance.

Code representing the absence/attendance.

Information describing how the day relates to 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.

Breakdown of times that the student entered or returned to school.

Time span that the student entered or returned to school

Locally defined code for attendance.

Approved or Unapproved status of this attendance code.

The start of this particular time span.

The end of this particular time span.

The amount of absence represented by AttendanceCode, up to three decimal places. May be greater than 1.0.

Note related to this particular time span.

An audit trail to help determine who entered this event and when.

Information about which staff member created this record.

The date and time this record was created.

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

Base type, without attributes, for Name elements, primarily to allow structure to be leveraged with different Type attribute values.

A title or prefix associated with the name. If any of: Mr, Mrs, Ms, Miss, Rev, Fr, Dr, Prof, Hon, Sir, Lord, Lady - these must be as shown, otherwise free text. Note that title is not applicable to learners.

Family name. That part of the person's name which is used to describe family, clan, tribal group, or marital association. Note that this element is required when known. However, it may not be possible to know the family name in which case you should add the available information to the FullName element.

Given name of the person. Note that this element is required if known. However, it may not be possible to know the given name in which case you should add the available information to the FullName element.

All other given or middle names, each separated with a single space character.

An indicator used to identify the naming conventions used by some predominantly non-European, ethnic or language groups and related to the display nature of a name.

The family name preferred most by the person (as written).

An indicator used to identify the naming conventions used by some predominantly non-European, ethnic or language groups and related to the display nature of a name.

The given name preferred most by the person (as written).

Textual suffix like PHD, JP, BSc.

A free text field for the complete name for display purposes. If this is associated with a StudentPersonal,StaffPersonal or StudentContactPersonal record and the FamilyName and GivenName are not both specified, then this becomes mandatory.

A person's date of birth.

Calendar date type information.

Code indicating the type of school day.

The ID (GUID) of a calendar summary to which this Staff Member is associated with.

Optional campus details.

Parent School Id needs to be supplied if this Campus is not the Admin Campus. This number should be the state-assigned identifier for this school or the locally-assigned identifier for this school.

Specific Campus Id - This may be the same as the School Local Id.

Type of campus.

Is this campus the Admin Campus?

Container element for location of an individual's legal residence relative to (within or outside) the boundaries of the school for this enrolment. Enrolment Catchment Status.

Code indicating the residency status for this enrollment. Code indicating Enrollment Catchment Status.

Reference to one or more AggregateCharacteristicInfo objects.

Reference to an AggregateCharacteristicInfo object.

The GUID of Test item object.

Location of test item in testlet, as an ordinal.

Lesson or activity-sized portions of a resource.

A lesson or activity-sized portion 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.

References from component to associated elements within another SIF object.

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 an attendance issue?

Does this person provide daily living or personal assistance to the student?

Is this the contact responsible for Payment of Fees?

Does this person receive family mail?

Is there an Intervention Order against this Contact?

Common element used to supply information for a contact person at a school, LEA, or other institution.

The contact person's position title.

Examples
Superintendent

Role played by this contact in this instance.

Examples
Report Contact
Primary Contact
Alternate Contact

Address of the contact.

List of Email elements.

List of PhoneNumber elements.

Contains contact information about resource authors.

Contains contact information about a resource author.

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.

Content description in the Australian Curriculum that is relevant to the test item.

A person's country of residency.

A person's country of citizenship.

A country code.

Information about which staff member created this record.

The role of the staff member that created this record.

Unique identifier of the user that created the attendance record. This will depend on the user and the source. The preferred identifier would be a RefId for a StaffPersonal, StudentContact, or StudentPersonal Object. However, the user may not be associated with any of these SIF objects. In that case a unique Id given by the source should be used.

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

Demographics information about the student, contact, staff member, etc.

Whether or not the person identifies themselves as being of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander descent.

'Sex' is the distinction 'male'/'female'/'intersex', as reported by the person

The person's date of birth.

The person's date of death.

Means by which the person's birth date was validated.

The person's place of birth - like village, town, city etc.

The person's state of birth.

The person's country of birth.

Date the person first arrived in the country.

The person's citizenship status.

Setting/environment in which the person resides.

Type of Religion if any

List of Religious events

Belong to Religious Region - Currently Free Text.

Australian Residency Status (Mandatory for Student)

Visa Sub-Class - Can be free text - not necessary to validate

Visa Statistical Code - Can be free text - not necessary to validate

Expiry Date of Visa if one exists

List of Visa details if more than one exists.

Language Background is Other Than English. (http://www.acara.edu.au/verve/_resources/DSM_1.pdf), the LBOTE metric is under review. Currently it can be derived from Student and Parents Language Background.

Status of Immunisation Certificate

Used to indicate cultural background.

The person's marital status.

Container for the NAP Domain Bands - Upper and Lower

Container for the NAP Proficiency Levels

Raw Total score across all Marked Student Responses for the Domain.

Weighted Likelihood Estimate for Domain, commonly known as scaled score.

Student ability for Domain in logits at 0.5 probability level.

Standard Error for Domain Scaled Score for this student.

Standard Error for Domain Scaled Score for this student in logits.

The integer value of the performance band that the student’s score is in for the NAP test domain.

The Skill Progression Level that the student’s score is in for the NAP test domain.

Setting/environment in which the person resides.

Code representing the setting/environment in which the person resides

A code representing the highest level of education completed by a person.

A list of electronic identifiers associated with an entity.

Common element used to specify entity identifiers that are read by electronic equipment.

Electronic ID type.

A list of e-mail addresses associated with an individual or organization.

This element represents an e-mail address of one of a number of types and occurs in objects such as StudentPersonal, StaffPersonal, StudentContactPersonal, etc.

This attribute specifies the type of e-mail address.

Person's proficiency in English.

Essential materials required to engage in this activity.

Essential material required to engage in this activity.

Evaluations/review of the resource.

Evaluation/review of 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.

Rules for which statistic may not be reported.

Rule for which statistic may not be reported

Rule for which statistic may not be reported

Account that is to be charged 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.

Suggested minimum class size for this subject.

The chart of account codes associated with the invoice.

Date student officially graduated from secondary education.

This element contains a map location. The GridLocation element is utilized within the Address element.

Latitude in decimal degrees.

Latitudes north of the equator are positive, latitudes south of the equator are negative [ISO 6709].

Longitude in decimal degrees.

Longitudes east of the Prime Meridian in Greenwich are positive, longitudes west of the Prime Meridian are negative. The 180th meridian is negative. [ISO 6709]

Common element used to specify the locally-defined number or identifier for a homeroom. It is used in objects such as RoomInfo and StudentSnapshot.

Common element used to supply information about a particular household a person is a member of.

Priority of Household Contact in relation to this Person.

Local Household Id

Salutation to be used in addressing this household.

List of Email elements.

List of PhoneNumber elements.

Repeatable element containing the ID of a household.

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

The code representing the specific language that an individual uses to communicate.�

An indication of the function and context in which an individual uses a language to communicate.

Specific dialect of a person's language.

Language in which the section is taught.

Code representing the language of instruction.

Information on contact persons for this LEA.

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.

Educational objectives of the activity.

Description of an educational objective of the activity.

Container for related resources.

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

References to LearningStandard Documents.

Reference to a LearningStandardItem Document.

References to LearningStandardItems.

Reference to a LearningStandardItem.

This common metadata element describes the life cycle of the object it represents, based on the IEEE LOM LifeCycle element [LOM].

This is a common element used to define the locally assigned identifier associated with an entity.

Description of the location in which the section is taught.

Code representing the location of instruction.

Learning resources that support this activity.

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

A Map Reference in x-y co-ordinates.

Type map reference

X Co-ordinate of reference

Y Co-ordinate of reference

Resource media types.

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

Medical alert associated with the student.

Medical alert associated with the student.

The level of severity of this medical alert.

Medium through which the student receives instructional communication from the teacher.

Code representing the medium of instruction.

A monetary amount.

Extends BaseNameType to allow for one Type attribute value, indicating the name is the name of record; serves as the primary name in some SIF objects, including StudentPersonal.

Code that specifies what type of name this is. Note that type "LGL" must be used here.

Code that specifies what type of name this is. If unsure, use LGL.

Container for a list of classes a teacher may be responsible for with regard to NAPLAN only.

The name of the class code the staff member administers, for the purposes of NAPLAN registration.

Scores received by the student for each testlet in the test.

Subscoring category, under which student receives a mark contributing to the total mark.

Student's mark received for this particular subscoring category.

Contents of an assessment assigned in the context of NAP, targeted at a particular domain and year level.

Local identifier of NAP test.

Name of the NAP test.

Type of NAP Test assigned in the session

Year that testing took place, e.g. 2017.

Number of branching stages in the test; 1 for a flat test.

The GUID that identifies the test item.

Local identifier of the test item.

Location of test item in testlet, as an ordinal.

Contents of a Test Item in the context of NAP.

Local identifier of NAP test item.

Name of NAP test item.

Response type for the test item.

Subdomain descriptor for the test item.

Genre of writing for the test item. Values: Narrative, Persuasive.

Description of the test item.

Whether the test item has been publicly released.

Method used to mark the test item. Values: AS Auto Scoring, MM Manual Marking, AES Auto Essay Scoring.

For multiple choice and multiple choices questions, the number of questions.

Τhe correct answer to the test item. (Mandatory for everything except writing).

Full marks allocated for correct response.

Item difficulty on same scale as Student Scaled Score.

Item difficulty in logits at 0.5 probability.

Item difficulty in logits at 0.62 probability.

Standard Error for item difficulty in logits at 0.5 probability.

Standard Error for item difficulty in logits at 0.62 probability.

The item proficiency band. Uses the same classification as Student Scaled Score.

The item proficiency level. Uses the same classification as Student Scaled Score.

The publicly accessible location of an exemplar for the test item. Used if the test item itself has not been published.

List of the RefId of the main item(s) for which this is a Substitute item.

GUID of Testlet object.

Contents of a Teslet in the context of NAP.

Local identifier that identifies this NAP testlet.

Testlet name allocated at test construction.

Label of testlet used for testlet sequencing. Values: A,B,C,D,E,F,G.

Location of Testlet in stage.

Weighted Maximum score that a student can achieve in this testlet.

Scores received by the student for teach item in the testlet

The GUID that identifies this NAPLAN test item.

Local identifier for the test item.

Student's response to the test item; can include the HTML formatted original response for writing.

After the test has been scored, this value will indicate the correctness of the response. This element will be missing if the response has not yet been scored. For open ended items that are scored using a rubric, this value will also likely be missing. These items do not fall nicely into the right/wrong category.

Score received by student for item.

Time taken for student to complete item.

Location of test item in testlet, as an ordinal.

Weighting for item in calculation of raw scores for testlets, tests.

Subscores contributing to the total mark.

The GUID for the testlet that the student is sitting. May be linking to prior codeframe download.

Local identifier of NAP testlet.

Weighted Total score across all Marked Student Responses for the testlet.

Category that rubric is scoring for.

Category that rubric is scoring for.

Descriptor of Score Point of Writing Rubric.

An unenumerated SIF object name.

A SIF XML object.

First projected graduation year, usually determined when student is accepted into 9th grade (CCYY).