Solutions for States

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An SLDS serves a wide range of stakeholders, from teachers to administrators, parents to legislators, state users to district users.  An SLDS needs to provide high quality, timely data to all stakeholders, ease data burdens, enhance education, and leverage educational change.  The ultimate goal is to improve student, teacher, and school performance at all grade levels and within each program.  To reach that goal, CPSI’s team incorporates technical expertise, education experience, and the ability to complete projects quickly, successfully, and affordably.  CPSI delivers proven solutions!

This highly scalable SLDS, collectively called xDStudio Enterprise for States, gives stakeholders the data they need for analysis, reporting, and operations management, while maintaining security and confidentiality.  CPSI has deployed this solution at the Oklahoma State Department of Education and the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, and is currently deploying a light version of the system in Minnesota.  In addition, we have developed and deployed a financial data collection and data warehouse for the State of Maine.  Our district clients include districts with student counts from 5,000 to over 130,000 students.  

Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS) provide critical data to help improve student achievement and prepare the students for college and the workforce.  The purpose of an SLDS and decision support system is to enable data-driven decision making throughout the education system based on a comprehensive longitudinal data set through collaboration between the various agencies in the State. The CPSI SLDS provides an enterprise-wide data system that allows the State to fulfill its objectives for data reporting to all stakeholders, including EDFacts.  Based on Best Practices and Data Standards, xDStudio Enterprise meets all of the guidelines as presented by the National Forum on Educational Statistics.

CPSI is unique among other SLDS vendors in that we provide truly robust automated solutions, as our proven successful track record in several states.  As a company that has been providing solutions for school districts and state educational organizations exclusively since 1989, we recognize the unique needs of the educational environment and are committed to the following offerings:

• A proven deployment and support team that can share its joint experience and success in multiple state and large district deployments.  
  
  
• A proven off-the-shelf solution maintained by CPSI.
  
  
• A valuable benefit provided by data standards, such as NEDM, CEDS, PESC, SIF, Ed-Fi, and others.
  
  
• Providing your State with the tools to ensure student achievement. 
  
  
  

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Solutions for Districts

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The CPSI “Roadmap to the Future” has been designed with the code name “C3-2R”, which stands for:

• Collect – collect data from different sources
• Connect – connect the data sources to a centralized data storage area
• Correct – validate the data
• Report – report on the data
  
• React - make informed decisions based on the data
  

xDStudio Enterprise is a total solution that provides a standardized data model for data collection and reporting; full ETL functionality; complete information access; operational data staging area; longitudinal data warehouse; extensive data validation; data mining; and reporting tools.  The solution comes complete with real-time functionality, but it can also run as a scheduled type of data collection process for the data that does not change daily.  The advantages of running a real-time data collection include the ability to:  

• Track student enrollments organization wide on a daily basis
• Track actual student mobility and dropout rates
  
• Truly start to identify students with problems for early intervention
• Allow schools to see their data errors (validation) & correct the data on a daily basis
• Allow schools to see a real time picture of the status of their student
• Track student attendance issues

The ability to exchange data using “All the Data- All the Time” technology helps to provide staff with contemporary data for more meaningful analysis throughout the school year.  Analytical processing can take place virtually at any time and encourages early intervention in potential problematic areas to minimize the impact of the certification process. In this way, responsible parties and staff can effectively monitor indicators to support summary dashboards and other visualization tools to communicate findings in near-real-time to stakeholders and administrators throughout the system.

xDStudio is flexible in how it can be implemented and the benefits that are gained by a real-time/near-real-time data collection are substantial.  Real-time means that only the data in the ODS is changing in real-time/near-real-time.  The data in the data warehouse remains static and is updated regularly as required by the District.    Because validation is occurring continuously, the quality of the data district-wide will improve significantly. 
Features of the solution include:

• A Standardized Data Model for Data Collection and Reporting
• Multiple data specifications and standards are supported with a Universal XML Generator
• Robust ETL Functions and Extensive Data Validation
  
• Operational Data Staging Area (ODS)
• Extensive Data Validation
• Workflow Management
• Data Warehouse
• Creation of Data Marts
• Ad Hoc Reporting
• Business Intelligence functions

Visual CASEL, our original product, was delivered first in 1992 and has been updated continuously since.  Use Visual CASEL to:

• Administrative Group Creation
• Automated School Management
• Computers/GPO/OU Management
• Grade Management
• Provisioning
• User Management
• Roster Management