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In addition to these Tutorials, please review our Fact Sheets, Publications, White Papers, Resources for Members and Technical Support documents.
INTRODUCTORY
About the A4L Community
About the Access 4 Learning Community... a Community focused on enabling learning, not just data!
Enabling Educational success...
Is this what educational success could look like? ...Meet Joseph!
What is interoperability?
A short animation explaining 'What is Interoperability?'
EDUCATIONAL MARKETPLACE
Just The Facts: Data Usage
Some in the educational marketplace attempt to dismiss SIF utilization to promote their own work. To address this misinformation, the A4L Community recently developed and disseminated a brief usage survey, which was sent to marketplace providers and LEA/SEA data leaders. Even with the short timeframe and limited response, the impact numbers depict the continued usage and growth of the SIF Specifications. This quick presentation shows some of the survey results.
Helping to bring hundreds of SIF 2 applications, supporting millions of students, a clear first step towards migrating an application from SIF 2 to SIF 3.
TRAINING
SIF 101
This training course is designed to help you understand the principles and capabilities of SIF.First published: 2011.
SIF Specification (United States) 2.5 - a minor release with major benefits
This training course is designed to provide a quick overview of what SIF is and how the SIF Implementation Specification (United States) 2.5 is a huge step forward in enabling data identification, management, movement and utilization for states and schools across the country.First published: 2011.
STRATEGIC DIRECTION
Technical Roadmap 2016-2017
The vision and mission of the A4L Community have not changed much since 1997 – we still collectively have work to do. But just like education and learning, we have the opportunity to continue and expand on the great work of one of the world’s largest non-profit technical community dedicated to allowing schools to do what they do best – teach!