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

Descriptive name of the activity.

Description and context for the activity.

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

Contains information about required software.

Essential materials required to engage in this activity.

Educational objectives of the activity.

Associated LearningStandardItem objects.

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

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

Source objects assigned to students.

Number of possible points for an activity.

Time structures for the activity.

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."

Learning resources that support this activity.

The work assigned to a student, which can comprise of learning resources, activities, and assessments. It must have a student and a time attached to it.

GUID assigned to assignment.

Students given this assignment.

GUID assigned to the educator who gave the assignment.

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

Contains information about required software.

Essential materials required to engage in the assignment.

Descriptive name of the assignment.

Description and context for the assignment.

Educational objectives of the assignment.

Associated LearningStandardItem objects.

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

Source objects assigned to students.

Time structures for the assignment.

The number attempts a student may make on this assignment. Assumed to be unlimited if omitted.

Flag to prompt grade book processing.

A GUID that identifies an instance of this object. This RefId is a “transient” value; that is, it SHOULD be generated by the provider at the time the object is provided in a Response message. This value MUST NOT be used in a later Request for the object.

The learning object.

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

Title of the resource, e.g., "The Civil War …"

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

Name of individual, organization or company that created the resource

The language used by the content to communicate to the Student

A unique indicator (usually a URL) that points to the codeset used.

A common element used to specify the collection of grade levels supported.

A list of subject areas.

Resource media types

This element contains information related to curriculum standards statements "standards" or "benchmarks" or the like within the document.

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

Time required to complete the activity.

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

Adaptations necessary for target students (508)

The size of the learning content objects.

The price of the object requested

An object designed to contain instructional objects such as units, lessons, activities, and assessments—or other containers—joined together under a particular topic and/or duration.

GUID for this particular object.

Description of this curriculum object

Describes the position of this object in the curriculum hierarchy.

CurriculumStructure objects directly above this one in the hierarchy tree. These are repeatable because a single object can have multiple parent levels in the hierarcy.

Learning objectives for this object.

Component objects, if any, that make up this object.

Associated learning standards.

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.

Name of learning resource.

Name of organization or company that created the resource.

Contains contact information about resource authors.

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

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

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

Resource media types.

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.

Evaluations/review of the resource.

Lesson or activity-sized portions of a resource.

References to LearningStandardItems.

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

The GUID that uniquely identifies an instance of the package.

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

Contains arbitrary text, encoded in UTF-8.

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

References external content via a URL.

The Id (GUID) that uniquely identifies this LearningStandardAssociation.

A URI that establishes uniqueness.

Declares whether the this RefId references a LearningStandardItem or a LearningStandardDocument

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

A URI that establishes uniqueness of the object instance.

Name of standard document, i.e., "Washington Essential Academic Learning Requirements."

A short name for the document.

Identifies the version of the document that this object instance represents. Note that new versions of documents must generate new RefIds and therefore a new object instance. This element is immutable in that once the object has been published with a value (other than blank) it must never be changed.

Description of the standards document.

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.

A unique indicator (usually a URL) that points to the codeset used.

Names of organization represented by the document, i.e., "National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)," "Washington," "Seattle School District."

Name of the organization that authored the standards document, i.e. "Mid-Continent Research for Education & Learning (McREL)." 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.

SIF common GradeLevels element

Date document data was added to the repository

Link to the first/top LearningStandardItem in the standard hierarchy

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

A URI that establishes uniqueness of the object instance.

A short name for the item.

Identifies the version of the item that this object instance represents. Note that new versions of items must generate new RefIds and therefore a new object instance. This element is immutable in that once the object has been published with a value (other than blank) it must never be changed.

A text description of the item.

The name of the state or organization that authored and manages updates to the standards document (i.e., NCTM, Ohio Department of Education).

Description of hierarchical level within standards tree.

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.

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

The text of the "standard," or "benchmark."

This element describes the unique identifier for each LearningStandard.

The RefId of the item's parent LearningStandardDocument.

Container for external relationships.

This element has been deprecated as of version 2.6. Use of this element is not recommended. This is the second to most granular level of the learning or performance standard associated with the grade level.

This element has been deprecated as of version 2.6. Use of this element is not recommended. This is the most granular level of the learning or performance standard associated with the grade level.

A series of Activities and LearningResources tied together under a particular topic or period of time to deliver a particular educational concept or skill.

Reference to the source objects.

GUID references to the parent CurriculumStructure object of this Lesson.

Name of lesson.

Desired duration of the lesson

Description of the lesson plan.

Text field to describe how to use and implement the lesson.

Teaching strategies used in this lesson plan.

Description of learning objective(s) for this lesson, i.e., "Student will be able to use Pythagorean Theorem."—equates to 'benchmark' or 'goal' or other terminology

Links to Activity objects that may support the lesson

Link to associated LearningStandardItems. This allows for a single Lesson to be aligned to multiple standard statements.

Links to aligned LearningResource objects.

One or more sources for the lesson. This describes the lesson's origin.

This object contains personal information about individuals to allow them to be tracked and information collected in role specific objects (e.g., StudentPersonal and StaffPersonal) to be related. In a future major release, the architecture may allow this to be streamlined..

The RefId of the PersonRoleAssociation object.

The GUID of the person.

The RefId of the *Personal SIF_Object representing this Person's role .

Effective start date of the association.

Effective end date of the association.

Body or organization creating this association.

Name of the Creator of this association.

Creation date of the relationship.

Response to Intervention (RTI) is a multi-tier approach to the early identification and assistance of students who are having learning and/or behavioral needs. The process includes intervention, frequent progress measurement, and research-based instructional interventions for students. This object represents the information that describes the Response to Intervention. Multiple ResponsetoIntervention objects may be created for an individual student.

The Id (GUID) that uniquely identifies a particular Response to Intervention.

The Id (GUID) of the student to whom this intervention is being administered.

The Id (GUID) of the school to which this intervention applies.

The Id (GUID) of the staff member who is administering this intervention.

The Id (GUID) that references the StudentPlacement Object that contains information that describes a specific instructional, related or transitional service that has been prescribed or recommended in the program plan developed for a student who has been placed in an individualized special program.

A local ID that may be used to identify this intervention for the student.

This is where the actual intervention would take place. For example, if at a tutoring provider, then the tutoring organization would be named.

A list of persons providing the intervention.

The specific tier of intervention.

The list of interventions applied here.

The subject for which this intervention is intended.

List of LearningStandardItems.

The specific learning objective(s) being addressed by this intervention.

List of pre-assessment data used to evaluate the student on the learning objective.

List of specific end aims.

When the intervention begins.

When the intervention is anticipated to end.

Date of when the intervention actually ended.

The frequency of the intervention.

Response to Intervention (RTI) is a multi-tier approach to the early identification and assistance of students who are having learning and/or behavioral needs. This object records the individual learner information for an assigned ResponseToIntervention.

The Id (GUID) that uniquely identifies the results of a particular Response to Intervention.

The Id (GUID) of the student being administered the intervention..

The Id (GUID) that references the StudentPlacement Object that contains information that describes a specific instructional, related or transitional service that has been prescribed or recommended in the program plan developed for a student who has been placed in an individualized special program.

The Id (GUID) of the reference to the ResponseToIntervention that has been assigned for this individual learner.

A local ID that may be used to identify this intervention for the student.

Naming of the intervention.

The specific measurement goals at the end of the intervention that each student should reach.

The specific measurement goals at the end of the intervention that each student should reach.

List of pre-assessment data used to evaluate the student on the learning objective.

List of specific end aims.