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Welcome to Pathways Data Integration!

Follow this guide to send your SIS data to Pathways

Table of Contents:

Introduction

Data Transfer & Responsibilities

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Pathways is a premier school administration software for managing the graduation requirements, grades, and statuses for your high school students.

Data Sets

Each Student Information System (SIS) provides unique data sets for Pathways. Generally speaking, Pathways will collect the following student data:

• Students - Contains general student information including: names, ids, etc.

• Grades - historical and current-semester grades for your students. Some SISs will send data in two files.

• GPA - the weighted and/or unweighted grade point averages for your students. Some SISs include this data within the students file.

• IBC (TX Only) - additional details on student graduation paths and programs for Texas districts.

• Course Crosswalk - an additional data set, required by some SISs, to align local course codes with sate-assigned course codes.

Method

Data exported from most SISs will be sent to Pathways via SFTP. If your district uses Aeries SIS, data will be transferred using API.

Data Send Schedules

All data sets should be sent nightly (including weekends) before 1am CST.

Data Transfer & Responsibilities

Pathways views your SIS as the Single Source of Truth for all data. Please review the steps below for how data is sent from your SIS to Pathways.

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1 - Manage Data in SIS –Sending data to Pathways begins with adding, updating, and maintaining the accuracy of course request, student, and teacher data within your SIS.

2 - Export Data from SIS – Your district IT, with help from your Pathways Data Integrations Engineer, will configure SIS data exports that create the Pathways data files.

3 - Send

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Files to EAI – Your SIS/District IT will send data files to Pathways on a regular basis (via SFTP or API, depending on your SIS).

4 - Maintain Servers – Pathways will create and maintain servers for the purpose of securely retrieving data from your SIS.

5 - ETL & Data Security – EAI will retrieve the data files from SFTP, encrypt, and store data using AWS. See EAI’s Data Privacy page for more information on how EAI secures your data.

6 - EAI Product -EAI will display your district data in Pathways.

Timeline & Checklist

Instructions for Exporting SIS Data:

Locate your SIS, download the attachments, and follow the provided steps to configure your data exports for Pathways. If you have any questions, please contact your Pathways Data Integrations Engineer for assistance.

Ascender SIS

If your Ascender SIS is hosted/managed by…

Your Regional Center (ERC): Please contact your ERC support team and request the Pathways SQL data extract. These files were created by Carlton Burton at Region 7 and can be located on the Ascender Technical Forum.

Locally Hosted: Please locate the Pathways SQL data extract files on the Ascender Technical Forum and load them to your Ascender SIS.

Data Requirements:

Instructions:

eSchool & eSchoolPLUS

Cognos Report Templates:

Instructions:

Harmony

Instructions:

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Complete the following steps every quarter/trimester/semester to update data in Pathways: Log into Pathways and click on Import Data under Utilities: Image Removed Click on the link to select the Harmony SIS file you wish to import: Image Removed Select Choose File and then Upload File to complete the update. Image Removed

PowerSchool

Pathways uses a custom API to export data from PowerSchool.

Instructions:

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Step 1: Download API file from Pathways Log into your Pathways account. Go to Utilities in the green ribbon and select District Settings. Scroll down and click Student Information System (SIS) Settings and Import Policies under Student Information System (SIS) Settings. Download the API ZPI file by clicking the link: Image Removed Step 2: Install the API file in PowerSchool Open a new tab and log into PowerSchool. Go to Plugin Management Configuration. Install and Enable the API ZIP file. Do not unzip this file before installation. Find and open Standards for Success Plugin on the plugin list. Click Data Provider Configuration to view the your API Key and Secret. Step 3: Configure API in Pathways Go back to your Pathways account to Student Information System (SIS) Settings and Import Policies Enter the following information under the PowerSchool API Access section: Image Removed Click Test Connection to confirm the API is retrieving data. Then click Save at the bottom of the page. Step 4: Notify your DI Engineer Email your DI Engineer that the plugin has been configured. They will then validate data within Pathways and follow up with you on next steps, if needed.

Skyward Q

Indiana Import Files:

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Introduction:

Pathways relies on State-specific import files to automatically create data exports in Skyward Q.

Weeks 1: Send First Files:

By the end of the first week, SFTP will be configured and the first files (data sets) sent to Pathways.

Please configure all files to be sent nightly (including weekends) before 1am CST.

Week 2: Data Validation:

Your Pathways DI Engineer will review and validate the sent data, then follow up with you for any needed adjustments to the exports.

After: Data Management:

Once the data in Pathways is validated, you will continue to maintain data within your SIS you may be contacted by your staff if data abnormalities are discovered in Pathways.

Please reach out to your DI Engineer if you need assistance troubleshooting any of these data abnormalities.

Instructions for Exporting SIS Data:

Locate the templates and instructions for your SIS below.

Ascender SIS

Contact your Education Regional Center (ERC) support team to submit a request to send data to Pathways. Please include the information below and cc your DI Engineer as part of this request.

Data Requirements:

Instructions:

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eSchoolPLUS

Download the Cognos templates (below) and configure them using the instructions below. Please note, these templates may need to be modified to account for district-specific data.

Cognos Report Templates:

Instructions:

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For eSchool districts who do not use Cognos, the following are the file specifications to assist in creating SQL statements or using other reporting tools:

Student Data

eSchool Student Roster Data Specifications

• File Name: students.csv

• File Format: .csv

• Delimiter: Comma ","

• Row 1 Headers: Listed below. Spelling is STRICTLY enforced. Capitalization, spaces, and special characters are not enforced. For example, "Student ID", "student_id", and "StudentId" are all acceptable forms for the "Student Id" field.

• Column Order: Order of columns is not enforced

Campus ID, State Student ID, Student Id, First Name, Middle Name, Last Name, Student Grade, Student Gender, DOB, Email, Federal Race Code, Federal Race Name, Meal Status Code, Grad Year, Graduation type code, Diploma Type Name, Grad Requirement Group, Grad Requirement Group Name, Endorsement Type, Endorsement Name

 Course Cross Walk

eSchool Course Crosswalk Data Specifications

• File Name: students.csv

• File Format: .csv

• Delimiter: Comma ","

• Row 1 Headers: Listed below. Spelling is STRICTLY enforced. Capitalization, spaces, and special characters are not enforced. For example, "Student ID", "student_id", and "StudentId" are all acceptable forms for the "Student Id" field.

• Column Order: Order of columns is not enforced

Building - Course, Active Status - Course, Receive Mark, Course Code - Course, Course Name - Course, Department - Course, Department Name - Course, Credit - Course, State Course School Year - Course, State Course Code - Course, Dual Credit Indicator - PEIMS CourseCat, Course Level - Course, Course Level Name - Course, Course Type - PEIMS CourseCat, Course Type Desc - PEIMS CourseCat, Non Campus Based Instruction Code - PEIMS CourseCat, Non Campus Based Instruction Desc - PEIMS CourseCat, ACT Indicator - PEIMS CourseCat, College Credit Hours - PEIMS CourseCat, Population Served - PEIMS CourseCat, Population Served Desc - PEIMS CourseCat, Sequence - PEIMS CourseCat, Sequence Desc - PEIMS CourseCat

Grades

This set of specifications is the same for both current_grades and historical_grades files.  You will be sending two files. 

The current grades file (current_grades.csv) will include data for only the current school year. 

Historical grades file (historical_grades.csv) needs to include all data for previous school years in which students took courses that earn high school credit. (Remember to exclude the current school year.)

eSchool Grade Data Specifications

• File Name: current_grades.csv or historical_grades.csv

• File Format: .csv

• Delimiter: Comma ","

• Row 1 Headers: Listed below. Spelling is STRICTLY enforced. Capitalization, spaces, and special characters are not enforced. For example, "Student ID", "student_id", and "StudentId" are all acceptable forms for the "Student Id" field.

• Column Order: Order of columns is not enforced

State Student ID, Student Id, Student Grade, School Year, Building - Schedules, Course Code, Course Name - Schedules, Credit Attempted - RC, Earned Credit, RC Status - RC, Receive Mark - MS-RC, Student Course Marking Period - RC, Student Course Mark Type - RC, Grade Value

GPA

eSchool GPA Data Specifications

• File Name: gpa.csv

• File Format: .csv

• Delimiter: Comma ","

• Row 1 Headers: Listed below. Spelling is STRICTLY enforced. Capitalization, spaces, and special characters are not enforced. For example, "Student ID", "student_id", and "StudentId" are all acceptable forms for the "Student Id" field.

• Column Order: Order of columns is not enforced

Student Id, Student Name Last-First-Middle, Cum Gpa, School Year, Grade, Gpa Type, Description

Harmony

Follow the instructions below to manually update data from Harmony SIS to Pathways. We recommend completing this update at the end of each grading period (quarter, semester, trimester, etc.).

Instructions:

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PowerSchool

Download the PowerSchool API directly within Pathways and configure it by following the instructions below.

Instructions:

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Step 1: Download API file from Pathways Log into your Pathways account. Go to Utilities in the green ribbon and select District Settings. Click the link Student Information System (SIS) Settings and Import Policies under Student Information System (SIS) Settings. Download the Pathways PowerSchool Plugin API ZIP file by clicking the link: Image Added Step 2: Install the API file in PowerSchool Open a new tab and log into PowerSchool. Go to Plugin Management Configuration. Install and Enable the API ZIP file. Do not unzip this file before installation. Find and open Standards for Success Plugin on the plugin list. Click Data Provider Configuration to view the your API Key and Secret. Step 3: Configure API in Pathways Go back to your Pathways account to Student Information System (SIS) Settings and Import Policies Enter the following information under the PowerSchool API Access section: Image Added Click Test Connection to confirm the API is retrieving data. Then click Save at the bottom of the page. Step 4: Notify your DI Engineer Email your DI Engineer that the plugin has been configured. They will then validate data within Pathways and follow up with you on next steps, if needed.

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Skyward Q

Download the Import files for your state (below) and then load/configure them in Skyward Q using the instructions below.

Indiana Import Files:

Texas Import Files:

Instructions:

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Import Files:

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are: Image Added Step 2: Load Import Files to Skyward Q: Log into Skyward Q. Then select the green menu. Go to Reporting, then Report Manager. Select Upload Reports and chose all downloaded Pathways import files. Finally, click Run Process to create the reports. Step 3: Schedule and Configure SFTP: Complete the following for each Pathways Import file. In Skyward Q, go back to Report Manager. Search for “Education Advanced” and click the Details button. Click Scheduled Reports then Add Scheduled Report. Enter a Report Name of your choice. Then enter of Start Time before 1am CST. Click on Save & Add Export Location. Enter the Skyward @ Report Name from the chart in Step 1, above. Click Add FTP/SFTP Connection or search for your existing Pathways SFTP connection. Use the hostname and credentials provided by your Pathways DI Engineer to add a new SFTP connection in Skyward Q. Please click Test Connection before saving. Save and manually send the file. Then email your Pathways DI Engineer to notify them that the files have been sent. See Skyward Q’s Technical Knowledge Base for more information on configuring data exports.

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Introduction:

Pathways relies on State-specific import files to automatically create data exports in Skyward SMS’s Data Mining and SkyBuild export tools. You do not need to manually create Pathways Export files

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Skyward SMS

Download the Import Files files for your state (below) for your State.When completed, each Import File will generate the following Reports and then load/configure them in Skyward SMS :Image RemovedIN Skyward SMS using the instructions below.

Indiana Import Files:

TX Skyward SMS Texas Import Files:

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Instructions:

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Step 1: Download the Pathways Import Files Download the Import Files (above) for your State. When completed, each Import File will generate the following Reports in Skyward SMS: Image Added Step 2: Load Import Files to SkyBuild: Follow these steps to load the Students and Course Crosswalk import files to SkyBuild. Log into Skyward SMS. Then go to the Administration tab and click Exports under SkyBuild. Select Export File Builder. Then click the Load Interfaces from File button. Select the Load Interface from File option. Then click Choose File. Locate the import file on your computer. Then click Import. Include Headers?: Please Include headers for the Students export only. Do not include headers for the Course Crosswalk export. Step 3: Load Import Files to Data Mining: Follow these steps to load the Grades, GPA, and IBC (TX only) import files to Data Mining. Log into Skyward SMS. Then go to Data Mining. Click the Import Layout button. Enter the Pathways Report Name, as indicated on the chart above. Chose the matching import file from your computer and click Import. Include Headers?: Please Include headers for all three Data Mining files: Grades, GPA and IBC (TX only) Step 4: Configure SFTP and Send Files Configure SFTP in Skyward and schedule the files to send nightly (including weekends) before 2am CST. Data Retrieved by Report Name:

For your information, here are the data elements retrieved from your Skyward SMS.

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